Lecture 1. The medieval background of the Crusades

Lecture 2. Islam: faith, culture, empire

Lecture 3. Pope Urban II and the calling of the First Crusade

Lecture 4. The First Crusade

Lecture 5. What were the Crusades? Who were the crusaders?

Lecture 6. The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem

Lecture 7. The Second Crusade

Lecture 8. The Third Crusade

Lecture 9. The Fourth Crusade

Lecture 10. Crusades in Europe

Lecture 11. The Fifth Crusade

Lecture 12. The Crusades of St. Louis

Lecture 13. The fall of the crusader states

Lecture 14. Later crusades and the legacy of the Crusades.