The age of the crusades
James M. (James Meeker) Ludlow
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1. Front matter2. CONTENTS.3. BIBLIOGRAPHY.4. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY—OUTLINE OF STUDY.5. CHAPTER II. STATE OF SOCIETY—IGNORANCE—DULNESS OF LIFE—SUPERSTITION—LOW SENSE OF JUSTICE—CRUELTY—TASTE FOR WAR.6. CHAPTER III. CHIVALRY—RULES—EDUCATION OF KNIGHT—CEREMONIES—INFLUENCE ON CHARACTER.7. CHAPTER IV. THE FEUDAL SYSTEM—GENERAL PRINCIPLES—INFLUENCE ON PEOPLE.8. CHAPTER V. THE IMPOVERISHED CONDITION OF EUROPE.9. CHAPTER VI. THE PAPAL POLICY—DEMORALIZATION OF THE WORLD AND THE CHURCH—HILDEBRAND’S PURPOSE INHERITED BY HIS SUCCESSORS.10. CHAPTER VII. THE MOHAMMEDAN MENACE—THE RISE OF ISLAM—SARACENS—TURKS.11. CHAPTER VIII. PILGRIMAGES—ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE CUSTOM—EXTENT.12. CHAPTER IX. THE SUMMONS—PETER THE HERMIT—POPE URBAN—POPULAR EXCITEMENT.13. CHAPTER X. THE CRUSADE OF THE CROWD.14. CHAPTER XI. THE CRUSADE UNDER THE CHIEFTAINS, GODFREY, RAYMOND, BOHEMOND, TANCRED, HUGH, ROBERT OF NORMANDY.15. CHAPTER XII. THE FALL OF NICÆA.16. CHAPTER XIII. BATTLE OF DORYLÆUM—TARSUS—DEFECTION OF BALDWIN.17. CHAPTER XIV. BEFORE ANTIOCH.18. CHAPTER XV. THE FALL OF ANTIOCH.19. CHAPTER XVI. THE HOLY LANCE.20. CHAPTER XVII. ON TO JERUSALEM.21. CHAPTER XVIII. THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM.22. CHAPTER XIX. GODFREY, FIRST BARON OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE—CONQUEST OF THE LAND—THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM.23. CHAPTER XX. BALDWIN I., KING OF JERUSALEM.24. CHAPTER XXI. KING BALDWIN II.—KING FOULQUE—KING BALDWIN III.—EXPLOITS OF ZENGHI—RISE OF NOURREDIN.25. CHAPTER XXII. MILITARY ORDERS—HOSPITALLERS—TEMPLARS—TEUTONIC KNIGHTS.26. CHAPTER XXIII. EUROPE BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND CRUSADES—KINGSHIP IN FRANCE—PAPAL AGGRANDIZEMENT—ABÉLARD—ARNOLD OF BRESCIA—BERNARD.27. CHAPTER XXIV. BERNARD—CONRAD III.—LOUIS VII.—SUGER—SIEGE OF DAMASCUS.28. CHAPTER XXV. NOURREDIN—RISE OF SALADIN—KING GUY—QUEEN SIBYLLA.29. CHAPTER XXVI. BATTLE OF TIBERIAS—FALL OF JERUSALEM.30. CHAPTER XXVII. EUROPE BETWEEN THE SECOND AND THIRD CRUSADES—SUPERSTITION—THE WALDENSES—DEGRADATION OF THE PAPACY—FRANCE UNDER LOUIS—ENGLAND UNDER HENRY II.—RICHARD CŒUR DE LION.31. CHAPTER XXVIII. WILLIAM OF TYRE—BARBAROSSA.32. CHAPTER XXIX. SIEGE OF ACRE.33. CHAPTER XXX. THE COMING OF PHILIP AUGUSTUS AND RICHARD—FALL OF ACRE.34. CHAPTER XXXI. PALESTINE AFTER THE THIRD CRUSADE—HENRY VI.—SIEGE OF THORON.35. CHAPTER XXXII. HISTORY AND CONDITION OF CONSTANTINOPLE.36. CHAPTER XXXIII. THE SUMMONS TO THE FOURTH CRUSADE—CONTRACT WITH VENICE—EGYPT THE DESTINATION—PHILIP OF SWABIA.37. CHAPTER XXXIV. THE PLOT FOR THE DIVERSION OF THE CRUSADE—CAPTURE OF ZARA.38. CHAPTER XXXV. ON TO CONSTANTINOPLE—CAPTURE OF GALATA.39. CHAPTER XXXVI. CONSTANTINOPLE SECURED TO ISAAC AND YOUNG ALEXIUS—USURPATION OF MOURTZOUPHLOS.40. CHAPTER XXXVII. CAPTURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.41. CHAPTER XXXVIII. FOUNDING THE LATIN KINGDOM OF CONSTANTINOPLE.42. CHAPTER XXXIX. BETWEEN THE FOURTH AND FIFTH CRUSADES—CONDITION OF EAST AND WEST—THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE.43. CHAPTER XL. DISASTER OF MARIETTA.44. CHAPTER XLI. FREDERICK II. AND POPE GREGORY IX.45. CHAPTER XLII. BETWEEN THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH CRUSADES—THE TARTARS—THE CARISMIAN INVASION.46. CHAPTER XLIII. ST. LOUIS.47. CHAPTER XLIV. DEATH OF ST. LOUIS—FALL OF ACRE.48. CHAPTER XLV. KINGSHIP—UNITY OF EUROPE—THE PAPACY—LIBERAL THOUGHT—INCREASED KNOWLEDGE—ARTS—LITERATURE—COMMERCE—THE TURKISH POWER.49. INDEX.