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  • Ch. 1. The First Crusade and its Impact
  • The First Crusade: territorial and demographic effects
  • Muslim views of the First Crusade
  • The impact of the First Crusade on the Byzantine Empire
  • The impact of the First Crusade on the Armenians
  • Technical and cultural interchange
  • Ch. 2. Politics and Warfare: 1097-1119
  • Antioch and its Muslim neighbours: 1100-19
  • Antioch and Byzantium to 1119
  • Jerusalem and its Muslim neighbours to 1119
  • Frankish and Muslim military and naval forces
  • Ch. 3. From the Field of Blood to the Second Crusade: 1119-49
  • The Byzantine factor
  • The career of Zangi and the fall of Edessa: 1119-44
  • The sequel to the fall of Edessa: the Second Crusade
  • Ch. 4. Nur Al-Din, Saladin and the Frankish States
  • The reign of Nur al-Din and the acquisition of Damascus
  • The contest for Egypt
  • The extension of Saladin's power: 1169-86
  • Hattin and the Third Crusade
  • Ch. 5. The Frankish States and the Later Ayyubids
  • The Ayyubid realm and the Latin kingdom
  • The Fifth Crusade: 1217-21
  • The Crusade of Frederick II: 1228-9
  • The Crusade of Theobald of Champagne and Richard of Cornwall: 1239-41
  • The Crusade of St. Louis of France: 1248-50
  • The aftermath
  • Ch. 6. The Frankish States and the Early Mamluk Sultans
  • The extension of Mamluk rule to Syria
  • The sultanate of Baybars
  • The sultanate of Qalawun.