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The Crusader States and their Neighbours is a region-wide military history of the Near East at the time of the early Crusades (1099-1187). It explores the major military events of this period, from the sieges of Aleppo, Damascus, and Cairo to the battle of Hattin, offering substantial revisions to many key orthodoxies concerning the crusades

Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 -- Exercise of Violence -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- The Crusader Conquest of Jerusalem and Christ's Cleansing of the Temple -- Katherine Allen Smith -- Chapter 2 -- Violent Hermeneutics of Sacred Space in Jewish and Christian Crusade Literature -- Uri Shachar -- Chapter 3 -- The Sack of Jerusalem in 1099 and Crusader Violence Viewed by Contemporary Chroniclers -- Luigi Russo -- Chapter 4 -- The Slaughter of the Innocents and the Depiction of Children in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Sources of the Crusades -- Sini Kangas -- Part 2 -- The Chronicles of the First Crusade -- Chapter 5 -- Reading Raymond: The Bible of Le Puy, the Cathedral Library and the Literary Background of the Liber of Raymond of Aguilers -- Thomas Lecaque -- Chapter 6 -- 'Hoc enim non fuit humanum opus, sed divinum': Robert the Monk's Use of the Bible in the Historia Iherosolimitana -- Carol Sweetenham -- Chapter 7 -- Scriptural Allusion in the Crusading Accounts of Frutolf of Michelsberg and his Continuators -- T. J. H. McCarthy -- Part 3 -- Papal Correspondence and Crusade Propaganda -- Chapter 8 -- The Use of the Bible in Twelfth-Century Papal Letters to Outremer -- Miriam Rita Tessera -- Chapter 9 -- The Use of the Bible in the Arengae of Pope Gregory IX's Crusade Calls -- Thomas W. Smith -- Chapter 10 -- 'Until the Full Number of Gentiles Has Come In': Exegesis and Prophecy in St Bernard's Crusade-Related Writings -- Kristin Skottki -- Chapter 11 -- The Exegesis of Violence in the Crusade Writings of Ralph Niger and Peter of Blois -- John D. Cotts -- Part 4 -- James of Vitry -- Chapter 12 -- Living in the Penultimate Age: Apocalyptic Thought in James of Vitry's ad status Sermons -- Lydia M. Walker -- Chapter 13.

1. Carolingian cavalry in battle : the evidence reconsidered / Clifford J. Rogers -- 2. Cultural representations of warfare in the High Middle Ages : the Morgan picture bible / Richard Abels -- 3. A Medieval graffito representing a trebuchet in an Etruscan tomb in Corneto-Tarquinia / Denys Pringle -- 4. Encountering the Turks : the first crusaders' foreknowledge of their enemy, some preliminary findings / Nicholas Morton -- 5. An early Muslim reaction to the First Crusade? / Benjamin Kedar -- 6. Espionage and military intelligence during the First Crusade, 1095-1099 / Susan Edgington -- 7. Ralph of Caen as a military historian / Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. Bachrach -- 8. 'Martyrum Collegio Sociandus Haberet' : depictions of the military orders' martyrs in the Holy Land, 1187-1291 / Helen J. Nicholson -- 9. The poet Friedrich Von Hausen on the Third Crusade and the performance of Middle High German crusading songs / Alan V. Murray -- 10. Godfrey of Bouillon and the Swan Knight / Simon John -- 11. The preparations of Count John I of Sees for the Third Crusade / Daniel Power -- 12. The crusades and north-east Africa / Bernard Hamilton -- 13. Thoros of Armenia and the Kingdom of Jerusalem / Peter Edbury -- 14. Why did the west fail to recover the Holy Land between 1291 and 1320? / Malcolm Barber -- 15. Meet the Mongols : dealing with Mamluk victory and Mongol defeat in the Middle East in 1260 / Kelly DeVries.