Crusader landscapes in the Medieval Levant : the archaeology and history of the Latin East /: the archaeology and history of the Latin East. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Micaela Sinibaldi, Kevin J. Lewis, Balázs Major and Jennifer A. Thompson ; editorial consultant, Peter W. Edbury.
• Editors: Sinibaldi, Micaela; Lewis, Kevin J; Major, Balázs; Thompson, Jennifer A
• Other Names: Sinibaldi, Micaela contributor.; Lewis, Kevin J contributor.; Major, Balázs contributor.; Thompson, Jennifer A contributor.; Pringle, Denys honouree.
• Contents: Landscape and History of Settlement. Jerusalem's two Montes Gaudii / Benjamin Z. Kedar -- The streets of Frankish Acre / Adrian J. Boas -- The Mount Tabor territory under Frankish control / Rabei G. Khamisy -- Safed Castle and its territory: Frankish settlement and colonisation in Eastern Upper Galilee during the crusader period / Hervé Barbé -- Settlement in the Petra region during the crusader period: a summary of the historical and archaeological evidence / Micaela Sinibaldi -- Shifting borders in the Latin East: the case of the County of Tripoli / Kevin James Lewis -- Where was the town of Valenia located in the thirteenth century? / Balázs Major -- The developments of Rhodes Town after 1306 / Anthony Luttrell -- Warfare and Fortifications. Egypt, the Jazira and Jerusalem : Middle-Eastern tensions and the Latin states in the twelfth century / John France -- Espionage and counter-espionage : an episode in the reign of Baldwin I of Jerusalem / Susan B. Edgington -- Three sieges of Nikaia in Bithynia (A.D. 727, 1097 and 1331): an archaeological perspective / Frank R. Trombley -- Medieval towers in Syria and Palestine / Andrew Petersen -- The use of posterns in the Frankish fortifications of the Middle East / Jean Mesqui -- An Ayyubid square-planned tower at the citadel of Damascus: Tower 8 / Cristina Tonghini -- Commonality in crusader castle construction in Armenian Cilicia and Cyprus: the case for Kantara and the catalyst of Korykos / James Petre -- Economy, Arts and Society. Frankish Beirut: a minor economic centre / David Jacoby -- Commercial relations between Lusignan Cyprus and the Kingdom of Naples in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries / Nicholas Coureas -- What does it take and exactly how much? Building a church in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the twelfth century / Vardit Shotten-Hallel and Robert Kool -- From preceptory to parish church: the Church of the Knights Hospitallers at Torphichen / Richard Fawcett -- The Berlin Virgin and Child enthroned with angels and the art of chrysogrpahy / Jaroslav Folda -- A study of the deoratde slab tombstones of the crusader cemetery at 'Atlīt, Israel / Jennifer A. Thompson -- Paleopathology of the Crusades / Piers D. Mitchell -- Ab hac hora in antea: oaths to the Roman Church in Frankish Cyprus (and Greece) / Chris Schabel -- Narrative and Documentary Sources. A neglected source for the history of the hospital : Master Josbert's letter to the Consuls and Commune of Savona (1171-7_ / Elena Bellomo -- 'La Damoisele del chastel': women's role in the defence and functioning of castles in medieval writing from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries / Helen J. Nicholson -- Making sense of the Annales de Terre Sainte: thirteenth-century vernacular narratives from the Latin East -- An Anglican account of the Holy Land in 1697: Henry Maundrell's journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem / Bernard Hamilton.
• Publisher Details: Cardiff : University of Wales Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (544 pages)
• Subjects: 956/.014; Latin Orient -- History; Orient latin -- Histoire; Middle East -- Latin Orient; Kreuzfahrerstaaten; Levante; History; Bibliographies; History; Bibliography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783169252; 1783169257
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