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Half Title
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Text boxes
Maps
Illustrations
Preface to the Third Edition
Introduction: The crusades and history
The old consensus
Traditionalism
Materialism
A ‘Golden Age’ followed by doldrums
Early signs of revival: The history of the Latin East
Alternatives to traditionalism
The challenge to materialism
Different perceptions
1. Holy and penitential warfare
Holy warfare
Penitential warfare
2. The birth of the crusading movement: The preaching of the First Crusade
The casus belli
Pope Urban II
A war of liberation
A penitential war-pilgrimage
Jerusalem
Crusaders as penitents
The response
Pogroms and anti-Judaism
3. The course of the First Crusade
The condition of Islam
The first wave
The second wave: The march to Constantinople
The second wave: Constantinople to Antioch
The second wave: The siege of Antioch and its aftermath
The second wave: The liberation of Jerusalem
The achievement of the second wave
The third wave
Developments in the idea of crusading
4. The holy places and the patriarchates of Jerusalem and Antioch
The founding of the settlements
The embellishment of the holy places
The establishment of the Latin Church
The Latin Church after 1111 and relations with the indigenous
The contribution of the Latin Church
The military orders
5. Settlement, government and defence of the Latin East, 1097–1187
Countryside and town
The legal status of the indigenous
Administration
The crown and the lords
Baldwin I to Baldwin V
The defence of the settlements
The Battle of Hattin and the loss of Jerusalem
6. Crusading in adolescence, 1102–87
Crusaders or pilgrims
The early crusades of the twelfth century
The Second Crusade
Low morale
The development of traditions
7. Crusading comes of age, 1187–1229
The Third Crusade
The crusade of 1197
Pope Innocent III
The Fourth Crusade
The Baltic crusades
The crusade against Markward of Anweiler
The Albigensian Crusade
Crusading in the Iberian peninsula
The Children’s Crusade
The preaching of the Fifth Crusade
The course of the Fifth Crusade
The crusade of Frederick II
8. Crusading in maturity, 1229–c. 1291
Crusading thought, privileges and propaganda in the mid-thirteenth century
Taxation
The Barons’ Crusade, 1239–41
The first crusade of St Louis
Crusading in Prussia and Livonia
The first crusades against the Mongols
Crusading in Iberia
Crusades against heretics
Political crusades
Reactions to the diversification of crusading
The second crusade of St Louis
Pope Gregory X
The failure to launch a great crusade after 1276
9. The Latin East, 1192–c. 1291
Cilician Armenia
Cyprus
Greece
The Italians
The Ayyubids
The settlers’ knowledge of Muslim politics
Antioch-Tripoli
Constitutional conflict in the kingdom of Jerusalem
The Mamluks
Changes to the Asiatic trade routes
The conquests of Baybars
The destruction of the settlements in Palestine and Syria
10. The variety of crusading, c. 1291–1523
The range of options
Crusade theoreticians
The fall of the Templars
The Teutonic Knights in Prussia and Livonia
The Hospitallers of St John on Rhodes
Features of the order-states
Cyprus
Greece
Crusading in Iberia, 1302–54
Crusading in Italy, 1302–78
Crusading to the East in the aftermath of the fall of Acre
Crusading to the East, 1323–60, and the emergence of leagues
Peter I of Cyprus
Concern about the Turks
Crusades engendered by the Great Schism
The crusades of Mahdia and Nicopolis
Crusading against the Turks, 1397–1413
The Hussite crusades
The crusade of Varna
Reactions to the loss of Constantinople, the modernization of crusading and the reappearance of peasant armies
The conquest of Granada and the invasion of North Africa
Crusade plans, 1484–1522
11. The lingering death of the crusading movement, 1523–1892
The Reformation
Religio-military orders
North Africa
The eastern theatre
The Hospitallers of St John and Malta
Para-crusading and pseudo-crusading in the age of Imperialism
The last crusaders
The modern Islamic counter-crusade
Obliteration
Modern Bibliographical Essay
Works of reference
Bibliographies
Historiography
Encyclopaedias
General histories
Themes
Definition
Crusade ideas
Preaching crusades
Liturgy
Crusade literature
Recruitment and motivation
Women
Finance
Warfare by land and sea (including warfare in the crusade settlements)
The Byzantine Greeks
The Jews
The Muslims
The Mongols
The Crusades to the East
The First Crusade
The Second Crusade
The Third Crusade
The Fourth Crusade
The Children’s Crusade
The Fifth Crusade
The Barons’ Crusade
The crusades of St Louis (Louis IX of France)
Pope Gregory X and the crusades
The later crusades, 1274 onwards
Crusading in other Theatres of War
Iberia
The Baltic and the northeastern Crusades
Crusades against heretics and opponents of the Church
The nineteenth century
The Latin settlements on the Levantine mainland
Edessa
Cilician Armenia
Antioch-Tripoli
Jerusalem
Trade
The Latin patriarchates of Jerusalem and Antioch
Art and architecture
Cyprus
Greece
The military orders
General
The Knights Templar
The Knights Hospitaller of St John
The Teutonic Order
The Iberian Orders
Lesser military orders
Sources in English Translation
Western sources for the Crusades
The Latin East: Antioch, Tripoli, Jerusalem
Cyprus and Greece
The military orders
Greek sources
Arab sources
Hebrew sources
Chronology
Index
Copyright Page
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