# The age of the crusades Author: Ludlow, James M. (James Meeker), 1841-1932 Genre: Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72852 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+age+of+the+crusades+Ludlow&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary After the lapse of eight hundred years the story of the crusades still furnishes the most fascinating, if not the most instructive, pages of Christian history. Romance has entertained the generations from the days of the Italian Tasso to those of Walter Scott with the rude yet chivalric characters of those mediæval times. Ponderous knights and dashing emirs, fair women and saintly apparitions, continue to move over the mimic stage of the imagination. Poetry, in all the tongues of modern Europe, draws its imagery from scenes that were enacted while these languages were being formed from their classic or barbaric originals. The hymnology of the church is enriched by the songs of those who c... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER XLIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/43/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/45/index.md) - [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/30/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/24/index.md) - [CHAPTER XL.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/40/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/41/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/27/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/32/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/19/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/36/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/18/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/28/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/26/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/25/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/34/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/44/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/37/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/14/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/33/index.md) - [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/21/index.md) - [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/20/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/35/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/31/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/23/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/17/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/38/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/39/index.md) - [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/29/index.md) - [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/42/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/22/index.md) - [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/15/index.md) - [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-crusades-72852/chapters/5/index.md)