Payne, Robert, 1911-1983.

The crusades : a history / Robert Payne. - Ware, Hertfordshire : Wordsworth Editions, 1998, �1984. - 421 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. - Wordsworth military library . - Wordsworth military library. .

Originally published in Great Britain, 1986 as: The dream and the tomb.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-406) and index.

The voice from the tomb. The dream and the tomb -- Thunder out of Arabia -- In the fields of Clermont -- The crusade of the poor -- A pride of princes -- Under the walls of Constantinople -- The dark roads to the Holy Land. Journey through the wilderness -- The siege of Antioch -- The king of the Tafurs -- The finding of the holy lance -- The triumph -- The kings who came from abroad. The quarrels of the princes -- King Baldwin I -- The armed might of the crusaders -- King Baldwin II -- King Fulk of Anjou -- The kings born in the Holy Land. The young King Baldwin III -- The Second Crusade -- King Baldwin III and the heroic age -- King Amaury -- The young king's valor and the fall of Jerusalem. Baldwin IV : the leper king -- King Baldwin IV against Saladin -- The horns of Hattin -- Islam takes Jerusalem -- Three letters -- The rages of King Richard. A journey to Joachim -- Slow boat to Acra -- Richard and Saladin -- A famous victory -- Marches and countermarches -- The old man of the mountain -- The doge in his splendor. The Vermillion gallery -- The burning city -- The devastation of Constantinople -- The wasting of the treasure. The Children's Crusade -- The plagues of Egypt -- Frederick, Emperor of the Romans, ever glorious. The stupor of the world -- Brief victory -- The disaster of La Forbie -- The saint in his toils. The pilgrimages of St. Louis -- Victory and defeat at Damietta -- St. Louis in Acre -- The death of St. Louis -- The ax falls. Baibars -- The end of the kingdom -- The last throw of the dice.

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