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The Crusader States: A Brief History
A short chronological overview of the four Latin states founded in the Near East after the First Crusade: Edessa, Antioch, Tripoli and Jerusalem, from founding to end.
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The Crusader States
The Latin lordships founded in the East and the fall of Jerusalem.
The Crusader States: A History of Christian Kingdoms
Who lived in the Latin East? A look at the Western settlers, their rulers, and how they dealt with Eastern Christians, Muslims and Jews under crusader rule.
The Crusader States: A Series of Medieval Kingdoms
The Crusader States as a patchwork of lordships and fortified frontiers: how castles, walled towns and a feudal-style government held the Latin East together.
The Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
How political rivalries and a crushing defeat in 1187 cost the Latin kingdom its capital, and what happened to the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the years that followed.
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