Chronicles of the Crusades

A stunningly illustrated and accessible history of the Crusades from both sides of the war, from the 11th century to the 16th century, focuses on the eyewitness accounts of those who took part. Illustrations.

Preface

11

(8)

Jonathan Riley-Smith

The Muslim World before 1096

19

(40)

Sunnites and Shi'ites

24

(2)

Cultivation in the Holy Land

26

(6)

The rise of Islam

32

(2)

The jihad and the holy war

34

(2)

Armenia and the crusades

36

(10)

El Cid and the Christian kingdoms of Spain

46

(4)

The Normans in Sicily

50

(2)

Robert Guiscard

52

(7)

The First Crusade 1096--1099

59

(56)

Pope Urban II

64

(2)

Anna Comnena, royal scholar

66

(2)

The People's Crusade and the Jews

68

(8)

The crusader states

76

(6)

How crusaders paid their way

82

(4)

Frankish medicine

86

(8)

Godfrey of Bouillon

94

(6)

Baldwin I, king of Jerusalem

100

(4)

Holy Sepulchre and Holy Lance

104

(11)

The Second Crusade 1147--1149

115

(36)

The Turkish armies

120

(4)

Bernard of Clarivaux

124

(4)

The Wends

128

(6)

The common market of Islam

134

(4)

'We who had been occidentals have become orientals'

138

(2)

Eleanor of Aquitaine

140

(2)

Women crusaders

142

(4)

Nur ad-Din

146

(5)

The Third Crusade 1189--1192

151

(48)

Saladin

156

(8)

Financing the crusades

164

(2)

Holy relics

166

(8)

Frederick Barbarossa

174

(4)

Richard I and Philip II

178

(2)

Food in the Holy Land

180

(4)

The siege of Acre

184

(6)

Muslim fortifications

190

(2)

The Assassins

192

(7)

The Fourth Crusade 1202--1204

199

(48)

Venice and the Venetians

206

(4)

Innocent III

210

(2)

Use an abuse of excommunication

212

(2)

The Comnenus dynasty

214

(2)

The naval power of the city of Venice

216

(4)

Byzantine politics

220

(10)

The Albigensian crusade

230

(6)

Simon of Montfort and the Albigensians

236

(6)

The Children's Crusade

242

(5)

The 13th century Crusades

247

(36)

The Kurds

252

(2)

Templars and Hospitallers

254

(4)

Frederick II

258

(6)

Saint Louis, king of France

264

(4)

The doves of war

268

(4)

Eunuchs

272

(2)

The practice of ransom

274

(2)

Sultan Baybars of Egypt

276

(7)

The last crusades

283

(40)

The end of the Templars

288

(2)

Hospitallers capture Rhodes

290

(6)

Peter of Cyprus the crusading king

296

(2)

Pilgrim traffic and maritime commerce

298

(6)

Tamerlane

304

(4)

The Hussites

308

(2)

Rise of the Mamluks in Egypt

310

(13)

The Mediterranean after 1453

323

(51)

Mehmed the Conqueror

328

(4)

The Ottoman Empire

332

(4)

Hospitallers lose Rhodes

336

(10)

Queen Isabella of Castile

346

(6)

Suleyman the Magnificent

352

(4)

Hospitallers in Malta

356

(2)

The battle of Lepanto

358

(6)

Henry the Navigator

364

(2)

The New World

366

(8)

Biographies

374

(8)

Glossary

382

(2)

Bibliography

384

(3)

Chronicles

387

(4)

Manuscripts

391

(2)

Index

393

(7)

Acknowledgements

400

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Chronicles of the Crusades

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