Introduction : Europe and the Mediterranean
1. origins of Christian Holy War
3. March to Constantinople
4. road to the Holy Sepulchre
5. foundation of Christian outremer
7. East is east and east is west : outremer in the twelfth century
8. new path to salvation? : Western Christendom and Holy War 1100-1145
9. God's Bargain : summoning the second crusade
10. 'The spirit of the pilgrim God' : fighting the second crusade
11. 'A great cause for mourning' : the revival of crusading and the third crusade
15. 'Ehud's sharpened sword'
16. fourth crusade : preparations
17. fourth crusade : diversion
18. Albigensian crusades 1209-29
19. fifth crusade 1213-21
20. Frontier crusades 1 : conquest in Spain
21. Frontier crusades 2 : the Baltic and the north
22. Survival and decline : the Frankish Holy Land in the thirteenth century
23. defence of the Holy Land 1221-44
24. Louis IX and the fall of Mainland outremer 1244-91
25. Eastern crusades in the later middle ages
26. crusade and Christian society in the later middle ages.