Introduction / Conor Kostick -- 1. Warfare in the Mediterranean region in the age of the crusades, 1095-1291 : a clash of contrasts / John France -- 2. Muslim responses to the Frankish domination in the Near East, 1098-1291 / Yehoshua Frenkel -- 3. On the margins of Christendom : the impact of the crusades on Byzantium / Chris Wright -- 4. Conflict and cohabitation : marriage and diplomacy between Latins and Cilician Armenians, c.1097-1253 / Natasha Hodgson -- 5. National identity, language and conflict in the crusades to the Holy Land, 1096-1192 / Alan V. Murray -- 6. Inimicus Dei et sanctae Christianitatis? : Saracens and their Prophet in twelfth-century crusade propaganda and western travesties of Muhammad's life / Sini Kangas -- 7. The impact of the First Crusade on Western opinion towards the Byzantine Empire : the Dei Gesta per Francos of Guibert of Nogent and the Historia Hierosolymitana of Fulcher of Chartres / Lean Ni Chleirigh -- 8. Oriental and occidental medicine in the crusader states / Susan B. Edgington -- 9. Architecture of the crusaders in the Holy Land : the first European colonial architecture? / Jurgen Kruger -- 10. Peacemaking : perceptions and practices in the medieval Latin East / Yvonne Friedman.