A Scottish knight in the crusader camp before Jerusalem, a truce, a disguised Saladin and a leopard skin, in the desert where nobody can afford to be honest. Scott wrote it in 1825 as the second of his Tales of the Crusaders, and it remains the most sympathetic portrait of Saladin in English fiction. Fifty-two plates spanning 1511 to 1919, from Doré to Moroni, gather knights, tournaments and armoured figures that mirror the book's crusader world.
