Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
List of Illustrations
Maps
Place Names in this Book
PROLOGUE: Departure
PART I Opportunity: Merchant Crusaders
1 Lords of Dalmatia
2 T he Blind Doge
3 T hirty-four Thousand Marks
4 ‘A Dog Returning to its Vomit’
5 At the Walls
6 Four Emperors
7 ‘The Works of Hell’
PART II Ascent: Princes of the Sea
8 A Quarter and Half a Quarter
9 Demand and Supply
10 ‘In the Jaws of our Enemies’
11 The Flag of St Titus
12 Bridling St Mark
13 Fight to the Finish
14 Stato da Mar
15 ‘Like Water in a Fountain’
16 City of Neptune
PART III Eclipse: The Rising Moon
17 The Glass Ball
18 The Shield of Christendom
19 ‘If Negroponte Is Lost’
20 Pyramid of Fire
21 Hands on the Throat of Venice
Epilogue: Return
Sources and Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Plates
About the Author
By the Same Author
Copyright
