"A revisionist history of the Crusader Kingdoms in the Middle East that challenges and upends conventional thinking on the impact of the Crusades on the Holy Lands"--

Introduction: The Cultural Inventiveness of Frankish Jerusalem
1. a Tiny Kingdom of Diverse Peoples
2. Everyday Life in the Kingdom of Jerusalem
3. An Intellectual Backwater?
4. The Clergy and the Establishment of Cores of Devotion
5. The Husbanding of Sanctity
6. A Candid Portrait of William of Tyre,the Kingdom's Most Erudite Cleric
7. King Amaurry of Jerusalem, a twelfth-Century Renaissance Ruler
8. The Inventiveness of the Kingdom's Knights and Military-religious orders
9. Burgesses, Urban and Rural
10. The Non-franks
11. Cultural activities in the Kingdom of acre (1191-1291)
Conclusion: Footprints in the Sand