The Crusades and Nature

1. Introduction. - 2. A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey? : Agrarian Environments in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. - 3. A Porous Boundary: Natural and Supernatural in the
Hystoria de via
. - 4. Crusaders as Microcosm: Soldiers, Pilgrims and their Intestinal Parasites in the Medieval Mediterranean. - 5. Real Animals in the
Siege d' Antioche
. - 6, The Wonders of Nature: Imaginary and Imagined Animals in the Fictional Universe of the First Crusade. - 7. Were Medieval Seamen Aware of Mediterranean Currents? . - 8.
Estrela do mar
: the Sea as a Destination of Crusade in the
Cantigas de Santa Maria
. - 9. An Encounter with Alterity: Western Chronicles of the Third and Fourth Crusade and the Natural Environment of South-Eastern Europe. - 10. The Comets of 1264 and 1299: A Comparative Look at the Near Eastern Sources. - 11.
Ad terram Prusie . . . Quasi vinea de Egipto translata
: The Role of the Natural World in the Written and Visual Culture of the Prussian Crusades, 1230-1390. - 12. `The root of bitterness : Crusade and the eradication of heresy from the Occitanian landscape in Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay s
Historia Albigensis
. - 13. Darkness Visible: Nature, Superstition, and Miracles in the
Historia Albigensis
of Peter of Vaux-de-Cernay. - 14. The Natural World as Book (Mis)Read by Paris Theologians and Competing Faiths.