List of Illustrations and Maps
List of Text Boxes
Acknowledgments
Preface

1. The Crusades: A Brief History
Prologue: Defining the Crusades
Box 1.1: Pilgrimage
Setting the Scene: Byzantine, Western Europe, the Islamic States and Jewish Communities
Box 1.2: Islam: Sunni and Shi'a
On the Eve of the Crusades: the Eleventh Century
The First Crusade
Box 1.3: The Crusades and Attacks on Jewish Communities
The Crusader States
The Second and Third Crusades
Box 1.4: Women on Crusade
A New Crusading Vision: At Home and Abroad
Box 1.5: The Children's and Shepherds' Crusades
Crusades Across the Borders
The Twilight of the Crusades
Box 1.6: The Mongols and the Legend of Prester John
Box 1.7: The Fate of the Military Orders after 1291
The End of Medieval Crusading

2. There and Back Again: The Logistics of Crusading and Life as a Crusader in the Levant
Preparation and Finance
Box 2.1: Crusade Charters
Transport and Provisions
Life and Death in the Levant
Settlement and Occupations
Box 2.2: Muslims under Latin Rule
Desertion
Massacre and Captivity
Slavery
Burial
Returning Home

3. Holy Warfare: Combat in the Crusading Age
General Organization and Recruitment
Manuscript and Material Evidence
Arms and Armor
Strategy and Tactics
Siege Warfare
Open Battle
Naval Engagements
Box 3.1: Crusader Castles
Matters of Life and Death
Injury
Illness
Medicine and Treatment
Box 3.2: Hospitals

4. A Case Study Exercise: Saladin and Richard I, Negotiations for Jerusalem
Jerusalem
Stalemate and Negotiations - the evidence
Document 1: Baha' al-Din on Negotiations between Richard I and Saladin
Document 2: The Itinerary of the Pilgrims and Deeds of King Richard (Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi)
Questions

5. The Crusades and Modern Memory
The Reformation (ca 1517-1649)
The Enlightenment (ca 1650-1800)
Romanticism (ca 1770-1850)
Nineteenth-Century Nationalism, Imperialism and Christian Militarism
Nineteenth-Century Islam and the Crusades
The Twentieth Century
The Twenty-First Century
Box 5.1: Matthew Schlimm's Analysis of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven

Questions for Reflection
Chronology
Glossary
Who's Who in the Crusading World
References
Index