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1 online resource (516 pages) |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; List of Figures; List of Tables; Note on Transcriptions; Notes on Contributors; I. Landscape and History of Settlement; 1. Jerusalem's Two Montes Gaudii; 2. The Streets of Frankish Acre; 3. The Mount Tabor Territory under Frankish Control; 4. Safed Castle and Its Territory: Frankish Settlement and Colonisation in Eastern Upper Galilee During the Crusader Period; 5. Settlement in the Petra Region During the Crusader Period: A Summary of the Historical and Archaeological Evidence |
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6. Shifting Borders in the Latin East: The Case of the County of Tripoli7. Where Was the Town of Valenia located in the Thirteenth Century?; 8. The Developments of Rhodes Town After 1306; II. Warfare and Fortifications; 9. Egypt, the Jazira and Jerusalem: Middle-Eastern Tensions and the Latin States in the Twelfth Century; 10. Espionage and Counter-Espionage: An Episode in the Reign of Baldwin I of Jerusalem; 11. Three Sieges of Nikaia in Bithynia (A.D. 727, 1097 and 1331): An Archaelogical Perspective; 12. Medieval Towers in Syria and Palestine |
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13. The Use of Posterns in the Frankish Fortifications of the Middle East14. An Ayyubid Square-planned Tower at the Citadel of Damascus: Tower 8; 15. Commonality in Crusader Castle Construction in Armenian Cilicia and Cyprus: The case for Kantara and the Catalyst of Korykos; III. Economy, Arts and Society; 16. Frankish Beirut: A Minor Economic Centre; 17. Commercial Relations Between Lusignan Cyprus and the Kingdom of Naples in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries |
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18. What Does It Take and Exactly How Much? Building a Church in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century19. From Preceptory to Parish Church: The Church of the Knights Hospitallers at Torphichen; 20. The Berlin Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels and the Art of Chrysography; 21. A Study of the Decorated Slab Tombstones of the Crusader Cemetery at ʿAtlīt, Israel; 22. Paleopathology of the Crusades; 23. Ab hac hora in antea: Oaths to the Roman Church in Frankish Cyprus (and Greece); IV. Narrative and Documentary Sources |
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24. A Neglected Source for the History of the Hospital: Master Josbert's Letter to the Consuls and Commune of Savona (1171-7)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; 26. Making Sense of the Annales de Terre Sainte: Thirteenth-century Vernacular Narratives from the Latin East; 27. An Anglican Account of the Holy Land in 1697: Henry Maundrell's Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem; Bibliography; List of Publications; Notes |
| Summary |
This volume is a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of settlement in the crusader states established in the Middle East during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, collectively known as the Latin East, and on their influence on the neighbouring geographical areas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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| SUBJECT |
Latin Orient -- History
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| Subject |
Middle East -- Latin Orient
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Kreuzfahrerstaaten
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Levante
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History
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lewis, Kevin James, 1987-
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Major, Balázs
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| ISBN |
9781783169269 |
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1783169265 |
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9781783169252 |
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1783169257 |
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1783169249 |
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9781783169245 |
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