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Steven Runciman.
A History of the Crusades, 2: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971 (previously issued 1965; hardback was 1952).
Series: Pelican Books.
ISBN 0140213805.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Cox & Wyman, London, Fakenham & Reading.
Size: 129x196x23mm.
Page count: text xii,523pp; plates 8pp; 1 foldout.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy looks rather battered, covers and spine scuffed and creased, some wear on the edges with the corners frayed and curled, some creasing on the spine; pages yellowed with age; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £3.50
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[Publisher’s price for current edn. £16.99]
Weight without packaging: 349g.

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Contents: Outremer & its neighbours; Crusades of 1101; Norman princes of Antioch; Toulouse & Tripoli; King Baldwin I; Equilibrium in the north; King Baldwin II; 2nd generation; Claims of the emperor; Fall of Edessa; Gathering of the kings; Christian discord; Fiasco; Life in Outremer; Rise of Nur ed-Din; Return of the Emperor; Lure of Egypt; Moslem unity; Horns of Hattin.
Appendices: Principal sources for history of Latin East, 1100-87; Battle of Hattin.

Illustrations: 8 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: 6

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: 6
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 7pp
Index: yes

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