Crusades : medieval worlds in conflict / edited by Thomas F. Madden, James L. Naus, Vincent Ryan.

Selected papers originally presented at the first International Symposium on Crusade Studies in Saint Louis, Mo., Feb. 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jihad poetry in the age of the crusades / Carole Hillenbrand -- Crucified with Christ: the imitation of the crucified Christ and crusading spirituality / C. Matthew Phillips -- Brothers in arms: hermandades among the military orders in Medieval Iberia / Sam Zeno Conedera -- The classical author portrait Islamicized / Robert Hillenbrand -- Alfonso I and the memory of the first crusade: conquest and crusade in the kingdom of Arag�on-Navarre / Jennifer Price -- Crucesignatus: a refinement or merely one more term among many? / Walker Reid Cosgrove -- God's will or not? Bohemond's campaign against the Byzantine empire (1105-1108) / Brett Edward Whalen -- "Like an ember buried in ashes:" the Byzantine-Venetian conflict of 1119-1126 / Thomas Devaney -- John II Comnenus and crusader Antioch / David Parnell -- Saints and sinners at sea on the first crusade of Saint Louis / Caroline Smith -- Louis IX, Charles of Anjou, and the Tunis Crusade of 1270 / Michael Lower -- The place of the crusades in the sanctification of Saint Louis / M.C. Gaposchkin.