Chapter Outline

I. Conquests and Territorial Expansion

1. Iberia [WEB: Medieval Sourcebook: Iberia]
1. The Reconquest
2. Process of Reconquest [TXT: The Lay of the Cid][IMG: Saint James of the Great [BNF: 15th Cent MS Illustration]]
3. Jews and Muslims in Christian Iberia

2. Sicily and the Southern Italian Peninsula
1. Robert Guiscard (1025-1085) and Sichelgaita (c. 1040-1090)
2. The Norman Kingdom of Sicily

3. German Eastward Expansion

II. Crusades [WEB: Medieval Sourcebook: Crusades]

1. The Popular Crusade and the First Crusade
2. The Second and Third Crusades
3. The Fourth Crusade [TXT: The Fourth Crusade 1204: Collected Sources]
4. Later Crusades
5. Military Orders [IMG: Knights Fighting Saracens [BNF: MS Illustration] ][WEB: ORB Military Orders Page]
6. The Crusades in Perspective [TXT: Usmah Ibn Munqidh (1095-1188): Autobiography: Excerpts on the Franks, c.1175 CE.]

III. Persecutions

1. Crusades and Inquisition Within Europe [WEB: The Inquisition Record of Jacques Fournier Bishop of Pamiers 1318-1325]
2. Jews and Other European Minorities
3. The Templars