Crusaders and Muslims in twelfth-century Syria / edited by Maya Shatzmiller.

Includes one contribution in French.

Papers presented at a conference held Nov. 1988, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

History, the Crusades, and the Latin East, 1095-1204 / Jonathan Riley-Smith -- Latin jurists in the Levant / James A. Brundage -- Communes italiennes, pouvoir, et habitants des Etats francs de Syrie-Palestine au XIIe siècle / Michel Balard -- The Lord's War as the proving ground of faith : Pope Innocent III and the propagation of violence (1198-1216) / John Gilchrist -- "O God, the heathen have come into your inheritance" (Ps. 78.1) : the theme of religious pollution in crusade documents, 1095-1188 / Penny Cole -- Alexander III and the Jerusalem Crusade / John G. Rowe -- ʻImād al-Dīn al-Isfahānī, administrator, littérateur, and historian / Donald S. Richards -- The crusading stratum in the Arabic hero cycles / Malcolm C. Lyons -- The reaction of the Syrian Muslims after the foundation of the first Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem / Nikita Elisséeff -- Propaganda and faction in the Kingdom of Jerusalem : the background to Hattin / Peter W. Edbury -- Diplomatic relations between Muslim and Frankish rulers, 1097-1153 A.D. / Hadia Dajani-Shakeel.hakeel.