The fifteen essays in this volume cover a range of topics from the Carolingian period through to the early fourteenth century. Some offer new insight upon long-contested issues, some open up new areas of debate connected to the history of crusading, while others use innovative methodologies to unlock the potential of various types of source material including: manuscript illuminations depicting warfare, Templar graffiti, German crusading songs, and crusading charters.

Chapter 1 Carolingian Cavalry in Battle, Clifford J.Rogers; Chapter 2 Cultural Representations of Warfare in the High Middle Ages, RichardAbels; Chapter 3 A Medieval Graffito Representing a Trébuchet in an Etruscan Tomb in Corneto-Tarquinia, DenysPringle; Chapter 4 Encountering the Turks, NicholasMorton; Chapter 5 An Early Muslim Reaction to the First Crusade?, Benjamin Z.Kedar; Chapter 6 Espionage and Military Intelligence during the First Crusade, 1095-99, Susan B.Edgington; Chapter 7 Ralph of Caen as a Military Historian, Bernard S.Bachrach, David S.Bachrach; Chapter 8 'Martyrum collegio sociandus haberet', Helen J.Nicholson; Chapter 9, Alan V.Murray; Chapter 10 Godfrey of Bouillon and the Swan Knight, SimonJohn; Chapter 11, DanielPower; Chapter 12 The Crusades and North-East Africa, BernardHamilton; Chapter 13 Thoros of Armenia and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Peter W.Edbury; Chapter 14 Why Did the West Fail to Recover the Holy Land Between 1291 and 1320?, MalcolmBarber; Chapter 15 Meet the Mongols, KellyDeVries;