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Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem : Frontier Inventiveness in the Age of the Crusades / Benjamin Z. Kedar..
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ḳedar, B. Z., author.
- Series:
- Medieval societies, religions, and cultures.
- Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Franks--Jerusalem (Latin Kingdom).
- Franks.
- Crusades--Influence.
- Crusades.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Jerusalem--History--Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244.
- Jerusalem.
- Jerusalem--History--Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "A revisionist history of the Crusader Kingdoms in the Middle East that challenges and upends conventional thinking on the impact of the Crusades on the Holy Lands"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. The cultural inventiveness of Frankish Jerusalem
- A tiny kingdom of diverse peoples
- Everyday life in the kingdom of Jerusalem
- An intellectual backwater?
- The clergy and the establishment of cores of devotion
- The husbanding of sanctity
- A candid portrait of the kingdom's most erudite cleric: William of Tyre (c. 1130-c. 1186)
- A twelfth-century Renaissance ruler: King Amaurry of Jerusalem (1136-1174)
- The Inventiveness of the Kingdom's Knights and Military-Religious Orders
- Burgesses, urban and rural
- The non-Franks
- Cultural activities in the kingdom of Acre (1191-1291)
- Conclusion. Footprints in the sand.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501781711
- 1-5017-8172-3
- 1-5017-8171-5
- OCLC:
- 1479534309
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