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<dl><dd>CONTENTS.</dd></dl><p>PART I. — HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES. 
CHAPTER I. 
Mahomet. — Project of the Mahomedans. — Charlemagne. — Fall of the Empire. — Depressed State of the World. — Pilgrimages. — The Church and the Pope. — Pope Gregory VII. — Pope Urban II. — The First Crusade ... 1 
CHAPTER II. 
The First Crusaders. — Peter the Hermit. — Arrival at Constantinople. — Quarrels among the Turks. — The Emir Bagi Sijan. — Siege of Antioch. — Sufferings of the Christians. — March upon Jerusalem. — Godfrey at Jerusalem. — Enthusiasm caused by the Crusades. — Poetry of the Crusades. — The Taking of the Cross at Clermont. — The Leaguer of Antioch. — The Gathering of the Paynim. — Godfrey of Bouillon ... 26 
CHAPTER III. 
Baldwin II. — Quarrels among the Princes. — Luxury of the Crusaders. — Zenki the Bloody Prince. — Reaction against the Church. — Troubled State of Europe. — St. Bernard. — The Second Crusade. —Wreck of the Second Crusade. — Noureddin. — Caution of Noureddin. — Rise of Saladin. — Saladin's Supremacy. — Decline of the Frankish States. — Banger of the Christians ... 63 
CHAPTER IV. 
The West rises to Arms. — Preparations in the East. — Siege of Ptolemaic — Frederick Barbarossa. — Death of Frederick Barbarossa. — Quarrels among the Princes. — Richard Coeur-de-Lion. — Negotiations. — Treaty with Saladin. — Fresh Outbreak of War. — Three Years' Armistice. — Failure of the Crusades. — Relations between the East and West. — Destruction of Eastern Civilization. — Triumph of Christianity ... 95 
PART II. — LITERATURE OF THE CRUSADES. 
CHAPTER I. 
The Emperor Alexius. — Urban II. — Stephen of Blois. — Anselm of Ripemont. — Bohemund and Others. — Raymond of Agiles. — Gesta Fraiicorum.' — Tudebod. — Guibert, Abbot of Nogent. — Baldric, Archbishop of DoL — History of the Holy War. — Henry of Huntingdon. — Fulco, Gilo, and the Monk Robert. — Fulcher of Chartres. — Liziard of Tours. — William of Malmesbury. — Ordericus Vitalis. — Rodolph of Caen. — Ekkehard of Urach. — Dodechin ... 131 
CHAPTER II. 
Albert of Aix. — Probable Origin of the Narrative. — Profusion of Detail. — Discrepancies in his Narrative. — Richness of Invention. — No dependence on his Facts ... 206 
CHAPTER III. 
William of Tyre. — His Birth and Education. — General Character of the Work. — Character of William of Tyre. — Narrative of the First Crusade. — Its defective colouring. — William of Tyre a Mediator between Legend and History ... 255 
CHAPTER IV. 
Epochs of a later Literature. — Scholasticus Oliver. — Vincent, Bishop of Beauvais. — The Luneburg Chronicle. — Matthew of West.- minster. — John of Ypres and others. — Platina. — Legends of the Crusades. — Ariosto. — Jacob de Vitry. — Matthew of Paris. — Petrarch. — The Treasurer Bernhard. — Archbishop Antonine of Florence. — Benedictus Accolti. — George Nauclerus. — Paulus Emilius of Verona. — Thomas Fuller. — Father Maimbourg. — Voltaire. — De Guignes. — Mailly. — Maier, Heller, and Haken. — Mills. — Lebeau. — St. Maurice. — Wilken. — Von Raumer. — Van Kampen. — Schlosser. — Michaud. — Capefigue ... 311 
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<dl><dd>Part 1 is a translation of four lectures delivered at Munich in 1855; pt. 2 is taken from the preface to the author's "Geschichte des ersten kreuzzugs", Düsseldorf, 1841</dd>
<dd>.--pt. 1. History of the crusades.--pt.2. Literature of the crusades</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Crusades; Crusades -- Bibliography; Duff Gordon, Lucie Lady 1821-1869</div>
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<dl><dd>Sybel, Heinrich von, 1817-1895</dd>
<dd>Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady, 1821-1869, editor</dd></dl></div>
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