Author:
Claster, Jill N.
Imprint:Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2009.
Descriptionxix, 356 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cm.
Note:Jerusalem and the eastern Mediterranean before the Crusades -- The scene is set: western Europe before the First Crusade -- The First Crusade: from the siege of Nicaea to the triumph at Jerusalem -- Baldwin I and the early years of the Latin Kingdom -- From the reign of Baldwin II to the end of the Second Crusade -- Life in Outremer to the fall of Jerusalem -- The changing ideology of crusading in the thirteenth century -- Storm clouds gather over the east -- The new frontiers of crusading and the last years in the east.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-337) and index.
