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Authors: Christopher Tyerman
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God's War: A New History of the Crusades (149 page)
6. The front cover of the Psalter of Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (1131–52); see p.
210
.
7. Saladin: a contemporary Arab view.
8. The battle of Hattin, 4 July 1187: Saladin seizing the True Cross, a fictional scene visualized by the monk Matthew Paris of St Alban’s (
d
. 1259).
9. Frederick I Barbarossa, emperor of Germany, dressed as a crusader
c
.1188, receiving a copy of Robert of Rheims’s popular history of the First Crusade. The inscription exhorts Frederick to fight the ‘Saracens’. See pp. 245, 418.
10. Embarking on crusade, showing, among others, the banners of the kings of France and England, from the statutes of the fourteenth-century chivalric Order of the Knot, dedicated to the Holy Spirit; see p.
855
.
11. Women helping besiege a city, as at the siege of Acre 1190; see pp. 396–7, 415, 428.
12. The western image of war in the Holy Land: Joshua, in the guise of a Frankish knight, liberates Gibeon from the Five Kings, an episode in the Book of Joshua (10:6–13) from an illuminated Bible commissioned for the crusading court of Louis IX of France
c
.1244–54.
13. Military orchestra of the kind employed by Turkish, Kurdish and Mamluk commanders, see p.
821
.
14. Pope Innocent III (1198–1216).
15. Venice
c
.1400.
16. Innocent III and the Albigensian Crusade.
17. Neighbours at war: Moors fighting Christians in thirteenth-century Spain.
18. The Fifth Crusade: a clash between Frankish and Egyptian forces outside Damietta, June 1218, from Matthew Paris’s
Chronica Majora, c
.1255.
