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A comprehensive history of the Crusades: an account of the theology of violence behind the Crusades, the major Crusades, the experience of crusading, and the crusaders themselves.

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The Crusades

Yale University Press

Contents

Maps...............................................................................................xiPreface to the Second Edition......................................................................xxvPreface to the First Edition.......................................................................xxviiIntroduction.......................................................................................xxix1 The Birth of the Crusading Movement: The Preaching of the First Crusade..........................1The casus belli....................................................................................1Pope Urban II......................................................................................2A war of liberation................................................................................4A penitential war-pilgrimage.......................................................................8Jerusalem..........................................................................................10Crusaders as penitents.............................................................................12The response.......................................................................................16The 'first Holocaust'..............................................................................232 The Course of the First Crusade..................................................................26The condition of Islam.............................................................................26The first wave.....................................................................................26The second wave: the march to Constantinople.......................................................29The second wave: Constantinople to Antioch.........................................................32The second wave: the siege of Antioch and its aftermath............................................37The second wave: the liberation of Jerusalem.......................................................42The achievement of the second wave.................................................................44The third wave.....................................................................................44Developments in the idea of crusading..............................................................473 The Holy Places and the Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Antioch...................................50The founding of the settlements....................................................................50The embellishment of the holy places...............................................................53The establishment of the Latin Church..............................................................61Relations with the indigenous after 1110...........................................................66The contribution of the Latin Church...............................................................754 Settlement, Government and Defence of the Latin East, 1097-1187..................................82Countryside and town...............................................................................82Administration.....................................................................................85The crown and the lords............................................................................90Baldwin I to Baldwin V.............................................................................94The defence of the settlements.....................................................................101The Battle of Hattin and the loss of Jerusalem.....................................................1095 Crusading in Adolescence, 1102-1187..............................................................112Crusaders or pilgrims..............................................................................112The early crusades of the twelfth century..........................................................116The Second Crusade.................................................................................121Low morale.........................................................................................131The development of traditions......................................................................1346 Crusading comes of Age, 1187-1229................................................................137The Third Crusade..................................................................................137The crusade of 1197................................................................................146Pope Innocent III..................................................................................147The Fourth Crusade.................................................................................149The Baltic crusades................................................................................161The crusade against Markward of Anweiler...........................................................162The Albigensian Crusade............................................................................163Crusading in Spain.................................................................................169The Children's Crusade and the preaching of the Fifth Crusade......................................171The course of the Fifth Crusade....................................................................176The crusade of Frederick II........................................................................1807 Crusading in Maturity, 1229-c. 1291..............................................................183Crusading thought in the mid-thirteenth century....................................................183The Barons' Crusade, 1239-41.......................................................................186The first crusade of St Louis......................................................................189Crusading in Prussia and Livonia...................................................................195The first crusades against the Mongols.............................................................199Crusading in Spain.................................................................................199Crusades against heretics..........................................................................200Political crusades.................................................................................201The second crusade of St Louis.....................................................................207Pope Gregory X.....................................................................................212The failure to launch a great crusade after 1276...................................................2138 The Latin East, 1192-c. 1291.....................................................................215Cilician Armenia...................................................................................215Cyprus.............................................................................................216Greece.............................................................................................217The Italians.......................................................................................224The Ayyubids.......................................................................................226The settlers' knowledge of Muslim politics.........................................................227Antioch-Tripoli....................................................................................228Constitutional conflict in the...