List of maps; List of genealogical tables; 1. The beginning of the crusades; 2. The crusade of Urban II and Paschal II; 3. The first crusade confronts the east; 4. The Holy Land: a new country overseas; 5. From the first to the second crusade; 6. Between Byzantium and Saladin: the perils of the Latin east; 7. Crusades of reconquest (1188–1205); 8. The crusade as an institution; 9. War and diplomacy: the rebuilding of the kingdom of Jerusalem; 10. The turning point of 1250; 11. In the Holy Land: a new Frankish society; 12. The crusade and the Mongols; 13. The end of the Frankish Holy Land; Conclusion; Appendices; Chronology.

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A concise, general history of the crusades from the beginnings to the fall of the last strongholds in 1291.

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