Includes maps of: Defences of Early Medieval Constantinople; Paris in the 9th Century; Early Castles and Strongholds on the Loire and in Northern France; Significant Sites in 12th-Century France; Christian Reconquest of Iberia; Crusader Principalities; Siege of Antioch, 1097-1098; Christian Siege of Jerusalem, 1099; Acre, 1191; Siege of Chateau-Gaillard, 1203-1204; Albigensian Crusade; Frederick II's Italy; Sieges in the Hundred Years War; Siege of Caen, 1417; Siege of Rouen, 1418-1419; Siege of Orleans, 1429; Castillon, 1453; Fourteenth-Century Plan of Acre; Baltic Crusades; Siege of Constantinople, 1453; Rhodes, 1480 and 1522; Siege of Malta, 1565.

Civilisation under siege, 450-750 -- The second onslaught, 750-950 -- The beginnings of castle warfare, 950-1050 -- Kings, counts, and castellans, 1050-1200 -- The early crusades, 1050-1200 -- An age of great kings, 1200-1350 -- Trouble in the west, 1350-1500 -- Trouble in the east, 1200-1565 -- Medieval siege weapons -- The conventions and laws of siege warfare.