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Crusader Landscapes in the Medieval Levant
Kevin J. Lewis | Balázs Major | Micaela Sinibaldi | Jennifer Thompson
(2016)
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Abstract
Written to celebrate the prestigious career of Professor Denys Pringle, this collection of articles produced by many of the leading archaeologists and historians in the field of crusades studies offers a compilation of pioneering scholarship on recent studies on the Latin East. The geographical breadth of topics discussed in each chapter reflects both Pringle’s international collaborations and research interests, and the wide development of scholarly interest in the subject. With a concentration on the areas corresponding to the crusader states during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the articles also offer research into the neighbouring areas of Cyprus, Anatolia, Greece and the West, and the legacy of the crusader period there, with results from recent archaeological fieldwork in the Middle East.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | Front Cover | ||
| Title Page | iii | ||
| Copyright Page | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Acknowledgements | ix | ||
| Introduction | xi | ||
| List of Figures | xv | ||
| List of Tables | xxv | ||
| Note on Transcriptions | xxvii | ||
| Notes on Contributors | xxix | ||
| I. Landscape and History of Settlement | 1 | ||
| 1. Jerusalem’s Two Montes Gaudii | 3 | ||
| 2. The Streets of Frankish Acre | 21 | ||
| 3. The Mount Tabor Territory under Frankish Control | 39 | ||
| 4. Safed Castle and Its Territory: Frankish Settlement and Colonisation in Eastern Upper Galilee During the Crusader Period | 55 | ||
| 5. Settlement in the Petra Region During the Crusader Period: A Summary of the Historical and Archaeological Evidence | 81 | ||
| 6. Shifting Borders in the Latin East: The Case of the County of Tripoli | 103 | ||
| 7. Where Was the Town of Valenia located in the Thirteenth Century? | 117 | ||
| 8. The Developments of Rhodes Town After 1306 | 131 | ||
| II. Warfare and Fortifications | 143 | ||
| 9. Egypt, the Jazira and Jerusalem: Middle-Eastern Tensions and the Latin States in the Twelfth Century | 145 | ||
| 10. Espionage and Counter-Espionage: An Episode in the Reign of Baldwin I of Jerusalem | 157 | ||
| 11. Three Sieges of Nikaia in Bithynia (A.D. 727, 1097 and 1331): An Archaelogical Perspective | 169 | ||
| 12. Medieval Towers in Syria and Palestine | 187 | ||
| 13. The Use of Posterns in the Frankish Fortifications of the Middle East | 207 | ||
| 14. An Ayyubid Square-planned Tower at the Citadel of Damascus: Tower 8 | 223 | ||
| 15. Commonality in Crusader Castle Construction in Armenian Cilicia and Cyprus: The case for Kantara and the Catalyst of Korykos | 241 | ||
| III. Economy, Arts and Society | 261 | ||
| 16. Frankish Beirut: A Minor Economic Centre | 263 | ||
| 17. Commercial Relations Between Lusignan Cyprus and the Kingdom of Naples in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries | 277 | ||
| 18. What Does It Take and Exactly How Much? Building a Church in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century | 289 | ||
| 19. From Preceptory to Parish Church: The Church of the Knights Hospitallers at Torphichen | 305 | ||
| 20. The Berlin Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels and the Art of Chrysography | 323 | ||
| 21. A Study of the Decorated Slab Tombstones of the Crusader Cemetery at ʿAtlīt, Israel | 339 | ||
| 22. Paleopathology of the Crusades | 349 | ||
| 23. Ab hac hora in antea: Oaths to the Roman Church in Frankish Cyprus (and Greece) | 361 | ||
| IV. Narrative and Documentary Sources | 373 | ||
| 24. A Neglected Source for the History of the Hospital: Master Josbert’s Letter to the Consuls and Commune of Savona (1171—7) | 375 | ||
| 25. ‘La Damoisele del chastel’: Women’s Role in the Defence and Functioning of Castles in Medieval Writing from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries | 387 | ||
| 26. Making Sense of the Annales de Terre Sainte: Thirteenth-century Vernacular Narratives from the Latin East | 403 | ||
| 27. An Anglican Account of the Holy Land in 1697: Henry Maundrell’s Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem | 415 | ||
| Bibliography | 427 | ||
| List of Publications by Denys Pringle | 473 | ||
| Index | 491 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |