First published in 1999, this volume emerged as part of the Collected Studies series and features studies authored by Bernard Hamilton over a period of twenty years, all of which deal with relations between Western Europe and the neighbouring civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean during the 12th and 13th centuries. '...(a) substantial collection likely to open up new channels of research.' Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique 'At a time when undergraduate classes are ever larger and many university libraries...no longer bind their periodicals, Variorum's familiar single-author collections offer a useful service... Scholarship of this quality is worth preserving...' History