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		"I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike." - Joseph Addison

	The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Crusades
	by Paul L. Williams, (Foreword)

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Format: Paperback, 336 pages

Publisher: Alpha Books

ISBN: 0028642430

Release Date: Jan 12, 2001

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Blood, Guts and Glory

-- Judith Schmitt, a teacher from Scranton, PA, December 26, 2001

Accreditation
Paul L. Williams holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Wilkes University, a Master of Divinity degree from Drew University, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Drew. He also received six academic scholarships and a teaching fellowship from Lehigh University. Paul has taught theology, humanities, medieval history, and philosophy at the University of Scranton.

After writing a series of feature articles on religion for the National Review, our author became existentially shipwrecked in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he became a holy hermit. On select occasions, he emerged from his secluded castle to battle dragons, to save damsels in distress, to engage in holy war, and to write such inspired works as The Moral Philosophy of Peter Abelard (The University Press of America), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Catholic Church But Were Afraid to Ask for Fear of Excommunication (Doubleday), and The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Lives of the Saints. He has also penned a series of scripts for CBS and Allied Artists.

This distinguished knight has championed the cause of the disenfranchised and the oppressed by serving as an award-winning newspaper reporter who captured three first-prize Keystone Press awards in three different categories in the same year-a feat that remains unmatched by any other crusading reporter. His long-suffering and pious wife, Patricia, serves as a schoolteacher for the Abington Heights (Pennsylvania) School District. They have a beautiful, intelligent, and radiant daughter, Princess Katherine, who came from Heaven, as Paul in days of yore lost the singular key to his good wife's chastity belt.

Part 1	The Medieval World	1
1	Welcome to the Middle Ages	3
	The Grimness of Daily Life	4
	Starvation vs. Serfdom	5
	Working for the Lord of the Manor	6
	Faith, Hope, and the Church	8
	Ignorance and Redemption	9
2	The Dawn of the Renaissance	13
	Technology Transforms Agriculture	13
	Winds of Change	15
	The Church Weighs In	17
	The Age of Chivalry	19
	The Knights of the Cross	21
3	The Peop Declares Holy War	25
	Pope Urban II Rallies the Troops	25
4	The Lure of Byzantium	31
	East Is East	31
Part 2	The First Crusade	37
5	The Crusade of the Poor	39
	Little Peter	40
	The Crusade Produces the First Holocaust	41
	The March to Jerusalem	43
	A Bad End for the Poor	47
	A Good End for Little Peter	48
6	A Pride of Princes: The First Crusade	51
	Meet the Holy--And Not-So-Holy--Crusaders	52
	Off to Constantinople	56
	Bring On the Holy War	59
7	The Siege of Nicea: The First Crusade's First Battle	61
	The Crusaders Lay Siege to Nicea	62
	The March to Antioch	66
	The Anatolian Nightmare	68
	A Crusader Gets Crowned!	69
8	Autumn in Antioch	71
	Intrigue at Antioch	72
	The Holy Lance	74
	Plague, Chaos, and Famine	75
	An Ironic End to the Final March	77
9	The Conquest of Jerusalem	79
	The Eve of the Siege	79
	Holy War	80
	Divine Intervention	83
	The Siege	84
Part 3	The Formation of the Latin East	89
10	Life in the Latin East	91
	The Last Hurrah	92
	The Kingdom Comes Together!	94
	The New East	95
	The Fate of the Great Heroes	100
11	The Knights Templar and the Hospitallers	103
	The Knights Templar	104
	The Hospitallers	106
	Laws unto Themselves	107
12	The Wild, Wild East	109
	The Moslems Fight Back	109
	The Moslems Fight Each Other	112
	The Christians Recoup--And Go Native	114
13	Jihad: Holy War Against the Franks	117
	Soldiers of Allah vs. Soldiers of God	117
	Zengi Goes on a Rampage	120
	Zengi's Triumph Rocks the Latin World	124
Part 4	The Second Crusade	127
14	A Medieval Million-Man March	129
	High Times Back at Home	130
	St. Bernard Plays Barker	131
	The First Million-Man March	133
15	Damascus Mystery: A Crusade Disappears!	141
	Zengi's Son Takes Up the Banner	141
	The Damascus Debacle	142
	An Unsolved Mystery	144
16	The Crusader Kingdom Is Cursed	147
	Nur ed-Din Eyes the Nile	148
	Alliances Go Haywire	151
	Saladin Moves Up	153
	The Crusader Kingdom on the Ropes	155
17	Saladin Triumphant: The Crusader Kingdom Collapses	157
	Reynald of Chatillon	158
	The Great Moslem Army Assembles	164
	The Crusader Kingdom Falls	167
Part 5	The Third Crusade: The Rage of a Lion	171
18	After the Fall: The Call for a Third Crusade	173
	A Moral Morass	173
	God's Judgment Launches the Crusade	175
19	Richard: The Real Lion King	179
	King Richard	179
	Richard's Sicilian Sojourn	181
	The Crusaders Set Sail	183
20	The Battle at Acre	187
	Guy's Quandary	187
	Acre Surrenders	189
	Post-Battle Business	191
21	Richard vs. Saladin: The Clash of Titans	195
	Richard's March to Jerusalem	196
	Richard the Lion Heart	203
Part 6	The Fourth Crusade	207
22	Naive Nobles Court the Doge to Fund the Fourth Crusade	209
	Enlist or Be Damned	210
	The Boy Nobles Take Up the Cross	211
23	The Crusaders in Venice: Deals and Detours	217
	The Christian Army Gathers in Venice	218
	The Zara Imbroglio	220
	Alexis vs. Alexis	221
	The Crusaders Take Constantinople	223
24	The Fall of Constantinople Ends the Crusade That Never Began	227
	The Empire Changes Hands	228
	The Crusaders Sack Constantinople	229
	Byzantium Becomes Romania!	233
25	The Children's Crusade: The Final March of Folly	235
	German Children March to Disaster	236
	French Children Drown or Are Enslaved	237
	The Crusade Spirit Penetrates Feudal Life	239
Part 7	The Collapse of the Crusades	241
26	The Fifth Crusade: Washout on the Nile	243
	The Fifth Crusade Gears Up	244
	The Egyptian Misadventure	245
27	An Excommunicated Emperor Leads the Sixth Crusade	249
	The Enigmatic Emperor Frederick II	249
	Frederick Wins--And Loses--Jerusalem	255
28	A Crusading Saint Takes Charge	259
	The Crusade Against the Crusader	260
	Yet Another Crusade to Free Jerusalem	260
	King Louis IX	261
	The Seventh Crusade	262
29	The End of the Latin East	269
	King Louis Counts His Troubles	270
	The Mongol-Christian Alliance	272
	The Mamelukes	274
	Appendixes
A	Glossary	281
B	Further Reading	287
	Index	291

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