God's war: a new history of the Crusades

Introduction : Europe and the Mediterranean

1. origins of Christian Holy War

2. summons to Jerusalem

3. March to Constantinople

4. road to the Holy Sepulchre

5. foundation of Christian outremer

6. Latin states

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

12. call of the cross

13. To the siege of acre

14. Palestine War 1191-2

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.