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Front Matter -- Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen and Kurt Villads Jensen. Introduction -- Alan V. Murray. From Jerusalem to Mexico -- Ahmed M. Sheir. Between the Downfall of Edessa and the Capture of Damietta -- Betty Binysh. Give me Three Good Reasons for a Muslim to end a crusade -- Tomislav Karlović. On the Role of Roman law in the Crusader States -- Jochen Burgtorf. Refugees in the Latin East before and during the Third Crusade (1168-1192) -- Adam Simmons. Desire, Myth, and Necessity -- Shlomo Lotan. Unknown Leaders -- Nicholas Coureas. The Formation and Evolution of the Class of Burgesses in the Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus 1192-1474 -- Nicholas McDermott. The Knight Hospitaller Slave system and its Variety of Enslaved Groups on Cyprus, Rhodes and Malta -- Mihkel Mäesalu. Agreements on the Acceptance of Christianity between Crusaders and Pagans in Thirteenth-Century Livonia -- Anti Selart. A Crusader and the Chieftain's Daughter -- Raitis Simsons. The Inclusion of Indigenous Western Baltic People in the Teutonic Order's Prussian and Curonian Land Administration in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries -- Gregory Leighton. The Teutonic Order and the Origins of its State as an Example of a Crusading Landscape in Fourteenth-Century Prussia.

Front Matter -- Christoph T. Maier. When Was the First History of the Crusades Written? -- Jonathan Phillips. The Memory of Saladin and the Crusades in the Near East from the Fifteenth to the Late Nineteenth Centuries -- Carol Sweetenham. When the Saints go Marching in -- Kurt Villads Jensen. Once and Future Crusades -- Massimiliano Gaggero. The Circulation of the Eracles in Italy and Galeotto del Carretto's Chronicle(s) -- Mike Horswell. From 'Superstitious Veneration' to 'War to Defend Christendom' -- Aphrodite Papayianni. Has Emperor Henry of Constantinople's Legend Survived in Greek Folk Poetry? -- Adam Knobler. Paradigms for Understanding Modern Crusading -- Elizabeth Siberry. Memorials to Crusaders -- Benjamin Weber. When and Where did the Word 'Crusade' Appear in the Middle Ages? And Why? -- Back Matter.

Focuses specifically on the concept and role of islands in the medieval world. The main characteristic of an island is, of course, that of being isolated from the rest of the world; in geography by waters, in more abstract and symbolic meanings by other kinds of separating borders. Islands were the place 'on the other side', of difference, otherness and remoteness. As one of the articles in this volume puts it, islands are often depicted "as sites for extraordinary events and happenings"