Front matter

STORIES FROM HISTORY SERIES

Edited by John Lang

STORIES FROM THE CRUSADES

Wherever the battle was hottest, Richard seemed to spring from the ground See page 75

STORIES FROM THE CRUSADES

BY

JANET HARVEY KELMAN

WITH PICTURES BY

L. D. LUARD

LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.

TO KATHARINE AND BARBARA

THE HEROES OF THE CRUSADES

The stories in this book are of heroes who lived hundreds of years ago. They caught sight of a beautiful dream and lived and died to make it come true.

Their eagerness swept along with them not only men who had never dreamed the dream and who did not know for what end they fought, but bad men also who only wished to get what they could for themselves.

The Crusades are long past, yet to-day there are men who see visions of good and who wish to bring them down to earth. With them are others who fight selfishly as did Bohemond and Baldwin long ago. But there are still men like Francis, who carry goodwill with them, and great knights like Tancred and like Louis, who live to fight for the poor and the weak.

LIST OF STORIES

Chap. Page

I. How Peter preached of Jerusalem 1

II. How Tancred fought under the Banner of the Cross 17

III. How the Kings fought for Glory and not for Christ 51

IV. How Frederick came to his Kingdom 82

V. How Louis thought Death a little Thing 92

LIST OF PICTURES

Wherever the battle was hottest Richard seemed to spring from the ground Frontispiece

At page

Peter set off with an unruly band of men 16

Bohemond led the way himself 38

Peter held a lance-head high in the air 40

They knelt on the rocky track 42

Barbarossa waits until his country needs him 64

A wild and fierce race called Tartars 92

Louis leapt into the water 98