Dr. Jessalynn L. Bird is an Assistant Professor in the Humanistic Studies program at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN. She is co-author of Crusade and Christendom: Annotated Documents in Translation from Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291.

Introduction, 1. Lay Initiative in the Early Peace of God Movement, 2. The Sermons of Honorius, 3. Preambles to Crusading: the arengae of Crusade letters issued by Innocent III and Honorius III Thomas W. Smith Crusades and the Islamic World, 4. Tolerance for the People of Antichrist: life on the frontiers of twelfth-century Outremer, 5. Pisan Migration Patterns along Twelfth-Century Eastern Mediterranean Trade Routes, 6. Innocent III and the Beginning of the Fourth Crusade, 7. The Preacher and the Pope: Jacques de Vitry and the papal Curia at the time of the Fifth Crusade (1216-1227), 8. Rogations, Litanies and Crusade Preaching: The Liturgical Front in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries, 9. The Stones of Damietta: remembering the Fifth Crusade, 10. Pro Deo et Amore Marchionis: Honorius III, William VI of Montferrat, and the Fifth Crusade in Greece, 11. Tribute, Islamic Law, and Diplomacy: the background to the Tunis Crusade of 1270