Exploring Outremer Volume II (Crusades - Subsidia)

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This collection is published in the Crusades Subsidia series in honour of Professor Adrian J. Boas, an archaeologist, historian and scholar who has contributed widely and significantly to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages. Professor Boas’ research encompasses the archaeology of the Latin East, military orders with particular emphasis on the Teutonic Order, material culture, architecture and medieval art, historiography, and not least, the Crusades and the Latin East. Exploring Outremer Volume II is a collection of 15 original essays by the leading scholars in the field on the history and archaeology of the Latin East. It covers aspects dealing with the history, archaeology, architecture and function of several castles and fortifications in the Latin Kingdom, and presents new studies on the material, including pottery, numismatics and many other finds. In addition, it includes a chapter dealing with landscape archaeology. This book will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Duchies of Edessa and Antioch, as well as the Crusades and Crusading Orders. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of tables List of abbreviations List of publications Acknowledgments List of contributors Introduction by the editors 1 In search of Ibelin Castle: experimenting with nondestructive archaeology 2 The Blanche Garde fortress at Tell es-Safi/Gath: an update on recent excavation results 3 Keeping the Hydra in its cave: viewshed analysis and the Frankish blockade of Fāṭimid Ascalon (1132–1153) 4 Et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium: Jean II of Ibelin, Arsur castle and the Hospitallers 5 The archaeology of the Pardouns de Acre 6 Crusader landscapes: the current state of knowledge and future directions 7 Two recently discovered mural paintings and the development of monumental painting in twelfth-century Jerusalem 8 Franks, locals and merchants: Ceramic production in the Latin East 9 Between Moneta and Sikka: minters and mints in the Frankish East (1099–1291) 10 For want of a nail: horse and donkey shoes in the Kingdom of Jerusalem 11 On the significance of small finds: two new mother-of-pearl cross-pendants from ʿAtlit and their wider context 12 Enlarged-based arrow-loops in the Near East (twelfth–fourteenth century) defence or ostentation? 13 Texts, loopholes and quarrels: an example of perfect agreement among the historical sources, architecture and found objects in Safed Castle from the thirteenth century ce 14 A tombstone from Safed: new evidence for the Templar Castle Chapel (?) 15 Belvoir castle revisited: history and development Index