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The Medieval World | |
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Welcome to the Middle Ages | |
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The Grimness of Daily Life | |
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Starvation vs. Serfdom | |
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Working for the Lord of the Manor | |
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Faith, Hope, and the Church | |
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Ignorance and Redemption | |
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The Dawn of the Renaissance | |
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Technology Transforms Agriculture | |
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Winds of Change | |
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The Church Weighs In | |
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The Age of Chivalry | |
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The Knights of the Cross | |
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The Peop Declares Holy War | |
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Pope Urban II Rallies the Troops | |
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The Lure of Byzantium | |
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East Is East | |
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The First Crusade | |
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The Crusade of the Poor | |
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Little Peter | |
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The Crusade Produces the First Holocaust | |
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The March to Jerusalem | |
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A Bad End for the Poor | |
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A Good End for Little Peter | |
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A Pride of Princes: The First Crusade | |
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Meet the Holy--And Not-So-Holy--Crusaders | |
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Off to Constantinople | |
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Bring On the Holy War | |
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The Siege of Nicea: The First Crusade's First Battle | |
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The Crusaders Lay Siege to Nicea | |
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The March to Antioch | |
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The Anatolian Nightmare | |
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A Crusader Gets Crowned! | |
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Autumn in Antioch | |
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Intrigue at Antioch | |
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The Holy Lance | |
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Plague, Chaos, and Famine | |
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An Ironic End to the Final March | |
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The Conquest of Jerusalem | |
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The Eve of the Siege | |
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Holy War | |
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Divine Intervention | |
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The Siege | |
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The Formation of the Latin East | |
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Life in the Latin East | |
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The Last Hurrah | |
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The Kingdom Comes Together! | |
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The New East | |
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The Fate of the Great Heroes | |
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The Knights Templar and the Hospitallers | |
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The Knights Templar | |
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The Hospitallers | |
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Laws unto Themselves | |
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The Wild, Wild East | |
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The Moslems Fight Back | |
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The Moslems Fight Each Other | |
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The Christians Recoup--And Go Native | |
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Jihad: Holy War Against the Franks | |
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Soldiers of Allah vs. Soldiers of God | |
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Zengi Goes on a Rampage | |
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Zengi's Triumph Rocks the Latin World | |
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The Second Crusade | |
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A Medieval Million-Man March | |
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High Times Back at Home | |
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St. Bernard Plays Barker | |
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The First Million-Man March | |
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Damascus Mystery: A Crusade Disappears! | |
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Zengi's Son Takes Up the Banner | |
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The Damascus Debacle | |
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An Unsolved Mystery | |
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The Crusader Kingdom Is Cursed | |
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Nur ed-Din Eyes the Nile | |
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Alliances Go Haywire | |
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Saladin Moves Up | |
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The Crusader Kingdom on the Ropes | |
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Saladin Triumphant: The Crusader Kingdom Collapses | |
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Reynald of Chatillon | |
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The Great Moslem Army Assembles | |
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The Crusader Kingdom Falls | |
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The Third Crusade: The Rage of a Lion | |
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After the Fall: The Call for a Third Crusade | |
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A Moral Morass | |
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God's Judgment Launches the Crusade | |
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Richard: The Real Lion King | |
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King Richard | |
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Richard's Sicilian Sojourn | |
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The Crusaders Set Sail | |
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The Battle at Acre | |
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Guy's Quandary | |
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Acre Surrenders | |
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Post-Battle Business | |
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Richard vs. Saladin: The Clash of Titans | |
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Richard's March to Jerusalem | |
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Richard the Lion Heart | |
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The Fourth Crusade | |
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Naive Nobles Court the Doge to Fund the Fourth Crusade | |
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Enlist or Be Damned | |
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The Boy Nobles Take Up the Cross | |
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The Crusaders in Venice: Deals and Detours | |
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The Christian Army Gathers in Venice | |
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The Zara Imbroglio | |
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Alexis vs. Alexis | |
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The Crusaders Take Constantinople | |
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The Fall of Constantinople Ends the Crusade That Never Began | |
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The Empire Changes Hands | |
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The Crusaders Sack Constantinople | |
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Byzantium Becomes Romania! | |
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The Children's Crusade: The Final March of Folly | |
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German Children March to Disaster | |
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French Children Drown or Are Enslaved | |
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The Crusade Spirit Penetrates Feudal Life | |
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The Collapse of the Crusades | |
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The Fifth Crusade: Washout on the Nile | |
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The Fifth Crusade Gears Up | |
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The Egyptian Misadventure | |
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An Excommunicated Emperor Leads the Sixth Crusade | |
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The Enigmatic Emperor Frederick II | |
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Frederick Wins--And Loses--Jerusalem | |
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A Crusading Saint Takes Charge | |
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The Crusade Against the Crusader | |
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Yet Another Crusade to Free Jerusalem | |
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King Louis IX | |
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The Seventh Crusade | |
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The End of the Latin East | |
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King Louis Counts His Troubles | |
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The Mongol-Christian Alliance | |
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The Mamelukes | |
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Appendixes | |
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Glossary | |
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Further Reading | |
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Index | |