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| ISBN | 1400065801 | | Format | Hardback | | ISBN13 | 9781400065806
(What's this?) | | Publication date | 01 Jan 2010 | | Publisher | Random House | | Pages | 320 | | Imprint | RANDOM HOUSE INC | | Volumes | 1 |
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| | | Illustrations and Maps | | | | 1 | | "Deus vult!" The First Crusade and the Capture of Jerusalem, 1095-99 | | 3 | | 2 | | "May God's curse be upon them!" Relations Between Muslims and Franks in the Levant, 1099-1187 | | 29 | | 3 | | "A woman of unusual wisdom and discretion." Queen Melisende of Jerusalem | | 51 | | 4 | | The "Blessed Generation." Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the Second Crusade, 1145-49 | | 76 | | 5 | | Saladin, the Leper King, and the Fall of Jerusalem | | 104 | | 6 | | "Nowhere in the world would ever two such princes be found:" Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, and the Third Crusade | | 136 | | 7 | | "An example of affliction and the works of Hell." The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, 1204 | | 166 | | 8 | | From "Little foxes in the vines" and the Children's Crusade to the greatest church council of the age | | 196 | | 9 | | "Stupor mundi" - the Wonder of the World: Frederick II, the Fifth Crusade, and the Recovery of Jerusalem | | 218 | | 10 | | "To kill the serpent, first you must crush the head:" The Crusade of Louis IX and the Rise of the Sultan Baibars | | 242 | | 11 | | From the trial of the templars to Ferdinand and Isabella, Columbus, and the Conquest of the New World | | 273 | | 12 | | New crusaders? From Sir Walter Scott to Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush | | 308 | | | | Conclusion: In the Shadow of the Crusades | | 345 | | | | Acknowledgments | | 353 | | | | Notes | | 355 | | | | Primary Bibliography | | 395 | | | | Secondary Bibliography | | 403 | | | | Index | | 417 |
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