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              .