JOHN D. HOSLER is a Professor of Military History at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the author of Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace. STEPHEN BENNETT is a historian of medieval warfare with a special interest in the history of the crusades and the crusader states, the military orders, and military practice in North West Europe. JOHN D. HOSLER is a Professor of Military History at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the author of Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace. STEPHEN BENNETT is a historian of medieval warfare with a special interest in the history of the crusades and the crusader states, the military orders, and military practice in North West Europe. STEPHEN J. SPENCER is Assistant Professor in Medieval History at Northeastern University London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Thomas W. Smith gained his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London; he is presently Keeper of the Scholars and Head of Oxbridge (Arts and Humanities) at Rugby School.

• Table of Contents List of IllustrationsContributorsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsThe Third Crusade: Major Events Introduction Part I: Writing the Third CrusadeKatrine Funding Højgaard, 'Past in the Present: Temporal Discontinuity and the Loss of Jerusalem in Western Historical Writing' Helen J. Nicholson, 'An Embarrassment of Riches? The Sources for the Third Crusade' Thomas W. Smith and Stephen J. Spencer, 'The Imprint of the Third Crusade in the Manuscript Traditions of Western Europe' Part II: Preparing for the Third CrusadeAne Bysted, 'A Call to Defend the Inheritance of Christ: Developments in Crusade Rhetoric at the Third Crusade' Jonathan P. Phillips, 'Saladin's Preparations for the Third Crusade' James Naus, 'Philip Augustus and the Decision to Join the Third Crusade' Part III: Fighting the Third CrusadeDaniel P. Franke, 'The Last March to Jerusalem: Manuscripts and Eyewitness Testimony in the Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa' Stephen Bennett, 'On the Ramparts: a Commoners' View of the Siege of Acre, 1189-91' John D. Hosler, 'Saladin's Loss of Initiative at Montgisard, Acre, and Arsuf: an Applied History Approach' Part IV: The Third Crusade in ContextJonathan Rubin, 'Outremer in the Time of Richard and Philip's Landing in Acre: a Socio-Cultural Survey' Jessalyn Bird, 'Aftermath in the East (and West) of the Third Crusade' John France, 'The Place of the Third Crusade in the History of the Crusades' BibliographyIndex