Contents: Preface; General Themes: Crusades against Christians: their origins and early development, c. 1000-1216; Politics and heresy in Italy: anti-heretical crusades, orders and confraternities, 1200-1500; The eschatological imperative: Messianism and holy war in Europe, 1260-1556; I registri angioini ricostruiti e le crociate; Frontier societies and crusading in the late Middle Ages; Cyprus and the crusades, 1291-1571; France, England and the "national crusade", 1302-1386; Insurrection as religious war, 1400-1536; Specific Themes: Jerusalem and the development of the crusade idea, 1099-1128; Charles II of Naples and the kingdom of Jerusalem; Pope Clement V and the crusades of 1309-10; The Franco-papal crusade negotiations of 1322-3; Angevin Naples and the defence of the Latin east: Robert the Wise and the naval league of 1334; King Louis the Great of Hungary and the crusades, 1342-1382; The mercenary companies, the papacy and the crusades, 1356-1378; Le marechal Boucicaut A Nicopolis; Crusading as social revolt: the Hungarian peasant uprising of 1514; A necessary evil? Erasmus, the crusade, and war against the Turks; Index.
