Crusades

Crusades covers the seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798), and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements, theology, law, literature, art, numismatics, and economic, social, political and military history.

Autorentext

Benjamin Z. Kedar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Nikolaos G. Chrissis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Iris Shagrir, The Open University of Israel

Klappentext

Crusades covers the seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798), and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements, theology, law, literature, art, numismatics, and economic, social, political and military history.

Inhalt

1. Al-Am's Tarkh for the Crusading Period: The Years 489-508/1095-1115 2. Early Hospitallers in Latin Europe, 1122 and 1113/35 3. Itineraria Terrae Sanctae minora II: Innominati IIV and VIII 4. Confusion in the Hospital's pre1291 Statutes 5. Fortifications and Mangonel Operation in Thirteenth-Century Ayyubid Cities: Damietta as a Case Study 6. The Templar of Tyre, the Angevin Regime at Acre (127786), and Anti-Foreign Sentiment in Frankish Syria 7. An Egyptian Jew in King Edward's Court: Jewish Conversion, Edward II, and Roger de Stanegrave Reviews Bulletin no. 40 of the SSCLE