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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Catholic Historical Review 89.4 (2003) 760-761 The Leper King and His Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. By Bernard Hamilton. Futura Std Condensed Extra Bold Oblique. (New York: Cambridge University Press.

Xxv, 288; 10 figs. $59.95.) 'The reason for the loss of the Kingdom of Jerusalem was the seizure of this caravan,' wrote the continuator of William of Tyre with reference to Prince Reynald of Ch창tillon's attack on a caravan traversing his territory en route from Cairo to Damascus in the winter of 1186-87 (the Eracles, c. This aggression broke the treaty he had made with Saladin some months earlier and led in a quick succession of events to Saladin's decisive victory over the Franks at Hattin on July 4, 1187.

Professor Hamilton has spent nearly two decades researching the background for this long and involved story, and the result is a highly authoritative historical account and reinterpretation of the reign of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (1174-1185). His conclusions are that Baldwin played a central role in holding his kingdom together to the very end of his reign despite having come to the throne as a minor, and having been afflicted since boyhood [End Page 760] with increasingly severe symptoms of the leprosy (evaluated in an appendix by Piers Mitchell) that killed him in his twenty-fourth year. Because of his illness and compromising family affairs (the annulment of the marriage of his mother, Agnes of Courtenay, to his father and predecessor, King Amalric of Jerusalem; and the appropriateness and leadership potential of the suitors of Sibyl, his younger sister and immediate heir), the question of his succession was constantly in the air. The author does an admirable job of identifying all those who were considered, approved, or rejected as candidates for the role of future king, and also those who became deeply involved in political intrigue, not to mention treason in the case of Raymond of Tripoli, in their struggle for power and the crown. Baldwin IV wished to retire and attempted on several occasions to secure a competent regent, but without enduring success, and in the end he died in office letting the kingship devolve on his five-year-old nephew, Baldwin V, who followed him to the grave a year later.