Introduction: What were the Crusades?

The Mediterranean crisis and the background to the First Crusade

The First Crusade

'The land beyond the sea' : Latin Christian lordship in the Levant, 1099-1187

Crusades and the defense of Outremer, 1100-1187

The Third Crusade and the reinvention of crusading, 1187-1198

Reshaping the Eastern Mediterranean : Egypt and the Crusades, 1200-1250

Crusades in Spain

Baltic Crusades

Crusades against Christians

The end of the Jerusalem wars, 1250-1370

The Ottomans

New challenges and the end of crusading

Crusading : our contemporary?

Postscript: Do the Crusades matter?

Chronology

List of rulers.