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Published: 2000
ISBN: 9780815410867
Number Of Pages: 456
This is a comprehensive account of the eight religious wars between the Christian West and the Muslim East that dominated the Middle Ages.
No man alive can write more beautiful prose than Robert Payne.--The New York Times
| The Voice From the Tomb | |
| The Dream and the Tomb | p. 17 |
| Thunder out of Arabia | p. 21 |
| In the Fields of Clermont | p. 31 |
| The Crusade of the Poor | p. 38 |
| A Pride of Princes | p. 47 |
| Under the Walls of Constantinople | p. 57 |
| The Dark Roads to the Holy Land | |
| Journey Through the Wilderness | p. 67 |
| The Siege of Antioch | p. 77 |
| The King of the Tafurs | p. 83 |
| The Finding of the Holy Lance | p. 87 |
| The Triumph | p. 95 |
| The Kings Who Came from Abroad | |
| The Quarrels of the Princes | p. 107 |
| King Baldwin I | p. 116 |
| The Armed Might of the Crusaders | p. 124 |
| King Baldwin II | p. 128 |
| King Fulk of Anjou | p. 137 |
| The Kings Born in the Holy Land | |
| The Young King Baldwin III | p. 149 |
| The Second Crusade | p. 155 |
| King Baldwin III and the Heroic Age | p. 161 |
| King Amaury I | p. 169 |
| The Young King's Valor and the Fall of Jerusalem | |
| Baldwin IV: The Leper King | p. 181 |
| King Baldwin IV Against Saladin | p. 191 |
| The Horns of Hattin | p. 197 |
| Islam Takes Jerusalem | p. 206 |
| Three Letters | p. 213 |
| The Rages of King Richard | |
| A Journey to Joachim | p. 219 |
| Slow Boat to Acre | p. 227 |
| Richard and Saladin | p. 232 |
| A Famous Victory | p. 240 |
| Marches and Countermarches | p. 245 |
| The Old Man of the Mountain | p. 252 |
| The Doge in his Splendor | |
| The Vermilion Galley | p. 261 |
| The Burning City | p. 270 |
| The Devastation of Constantinople | p. 277 |
| The Wasting of the Treasure | |
| The Children's Crusades | p. 287 |
| The Plagues of Egypt | p. 290 |
| Frederick, Emperor of the Romans, Ever Glorious | |
| The Stupor of the World | p. 305 |
| Brief Victory | p. 314 |
| The Disaster at La Forbie | p. 321 |
| The Saint in His Toils | |
| The Pilgrimages of St. Louis | p. 335 |
| Victory and Defeat at Damietta | p. 344 |
| St. Louis in Acre | p. 352 |
| The Death of St. Louis | p. 360 |
| The Ax Falls | |
| Baibars | p. 367 |
| The End of the Kingdom | p. 377 |
| The Last Throw of the Dice | p. 387 |
| Notes | p. 395 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 399 |
| Index | p. 407 |
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ISBN: 9780815410867
ISBN-10: 0815410867
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 456
Published: 2000
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 22.68 x 15.34
x 2.31
Weight (kg): 0.6
Edition Type: New edition
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