Contents

List of maps and genealogical tables

Chronology of main events

Preface

Publisher acknowledgements

1. Problems in crusading historiography

2. The papacy, the knighthood and the eastern Mediterranean

3. Crusade and settlement, 1095-c. 1118

4. Politics and war in the Crusader States, 1118-87

5. The Islamic reaction, 1097-1193

6. Crusader society

7. Recovery in the East, new challenges in Europe: crusading, 1187-1216

8. Varieties of crusading from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries

9. Crusading and the Crusader States in the thirteenth century, 1217-74

10. The later Crusades, 1274-1336

Brief biographies

Bibliography

Index

This book explores the causes of the Christian idea of holy war and the nature of the first European colonial settlement in the near east.

This book explores the causes of the Christian idea of holy war and the nature of the first European colonial settlement in the near east.

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