Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

PART I. PREPARATIONS FOR THE CRUSADE
1. Planning for the Crusade
2. The Testing Ground
3. The Vocation of the Cross
4. Recruitment for the Crusade
5. Financing the Crusade
6. The Leadership Question

PART II. THE CRUSADE
7. The First Phase
8. Invasion and Stalemate
9. The Conquest of Damietta
10. The Failure of the Crusade

Epilogue and Conclusions

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About the Author

James M. Powell was Professor of Medieval History at Syracuse University, and author of Albertanus of Brescia: The Pursuit of Happiness in the Early Thirteenth Century, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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"A learned, revisionist history of the Fifth Crusade."-Speculum