From the author of Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade, this book offers a wide-ranging and innovative survey of crusading warfare, and is intended as a standard reference for students and professional historians

The means of war; the men of war; causes, aims and objectives; battle and war, 1000-1152; war and the state in the 12th century; war, ideology and chivalry in the 11th and 12th centuries; Bouvines and its myth; battle and warfare in the 13th century; civilization versus the barbarians; warfare and change.