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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 | |