Crusaders and Franks : studies in the history of the Crusades and the Frankish Levant / Benjamin Z. Kedar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ḳedar, B. Z., author.

Series:

Variorum Collected Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2016]

Language Note:

Twenty-one articles in English, one in French.

Summary:

While research on the crusades tends increasingly to bifurcate into study of the crusade idea and the crusading expeditions, and study of the Frankish states the crusaders established in the Levant, Benjamin Kedar confirms-through the articles reproduced in this latest selection of his articles-his adherence to the school that endeavours to deal with both branches of research. Of the ten studies that deal with the crusading expeditions, one examines the maps that might have been available to the First Crusaders and their Muslim opponents, another discusses in detail the Jerusalem massacre of July 1099 and its place in Western historiography down to our days, a third sheds light on the largely neglected doings of the Fourth Crusaders who decided to sail to Acre rather than to Constantinople, while a fourth exposes unknown features of the well-known sculpture of the returning crusader-most probably Count Hugh I of Vaudémont- who is embracing his wife. Of the ten studies that deal with the Frankish Levant, one proposes a hypothesis on the composition stages of William of Tyre's chronicle, another provides new evidence on the Latin hermits who chose to live in the Frankish states, a third examines the catalogue of the library of the cathedral of Nazareth, while a fourth calls attention to convergences of Eastern Christians, Muslims and Franks in sacred spaces and offers a typology of such events, and a fifth proposes a methodology for the identification of trans-cultural borrowing in the Frankish Levant.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

I: Franks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1047 (with Reuven Amitai)

II: A Note on Jerusalem's Bīmārīstan and Jerusalem's Hospital

III: L'appel De Clermont Vu De Jérusalem

IV: The Forcible Baptisms of 1096: History and Historiography

V: Crusade Historians and the Massacres of 1096

VI: Emicho of Flonheim and the Apocalyptic Motif in the 1096 Massacres: Between Paul Alphandéry and Alphonse Dupront

VII: Reflections on Maps, Crusading and Logistics

VIII: The Jerusalem Massacre of July 1099 in the Western Historiography of the Crusades

IX: Did Muslim Survivors of the 1099 Massacre of Jerusalem Settle in Damascus? the True Origins of the Al-Ṣāliḥliyya Suburb (with Daniella Talmon-Heller)

X: An Early Muslim Reaction to the First Crusade?

XI: Again: Genoa's Golden Inscription and King Baldwin L's Privilege of 1104

XII: The Voyages of Giuám-Ovadiah in Syria and Iraq and the Enigma of his Conversion

XIII: The Significance of a Twelfth-Century Sculptural Group: Le Retour Du Croise (with Nurith Kenaan-Kedar)

XIV: Some New Light on the Composition Process of William of Tyre's Historia

XV: The Fourth Crusade's Second Front

XVI: The Outer Walls of Frankish Jaffa

XVII: Civitas and Castellum in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: Contemporary Frankish Perceptions

XVIII: The Latin Hermits of the Frankish Levant Revisited

XIX: On Books and Hermits in Nazareth's Short Twelfth Century

XX: The Eastern Christians in the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem: An Overview

XXI: Convergences of Oriental Christian, Muslim and Frankish Worshippers: The Case of Saydnaya and the Knights Templar

XXII: Problems in the Study of Trans-Cultural Borrowing in the Frankish Levant (with Cyril Aslanov).

Addenda Et Corrigenda

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kedar, Benjamin Z. Crusaders and Franks

ISBN:

1-351-94705-2

1-315-25877-3

1-351-94706-0