Frontcover
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. History and Biblical Exegesis in the Latin West
The Educational Context
Exegesis, History, and Ideology
Glossing the Norman Conquest
Conclusion
2. The Bible in the Chronicles of the First Crusade
Larger Trends
Exegetical Strategies: From Clermont to Jerusalem
Glossing Kerbogha's Mother
Conclusion
3. Into the Promised Land
Sacred Geographies
Crusaders as New Israelites
Muslims as Biblical Polytheists
Crusade History as Polemic
Conclusion

4. Babylon and Jerusalem
Crusading, the City of God, and the Apostolic Ideal
A New Babylon in the East
The Conquest of Jerusalem and Christ's Cleansing of the Temple
Conclusion
Conclusion