Crusader Archaeology: The Material Culture of the Latin East

ISBN-13: 9780367872847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str.

Adrian Boas

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This new edition of Crusader Archaeology updates, with recent excavation results and research, the only detailed study of the material culture of the Crusades in Israel, Cyprus, Syria and Jordan. It examines what life was like for the Crusaders in their territory and how they were influenced by their new-found neighbours. Chapters discu

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List of illustrations

Preface and acknowledgements

A note on the use of place-names

Abbreviations

Chronology

1 Background: the Crusades and Outremer

Geography and climate

The native population

The Frankish settlers

The Italians

Frankish administration and institutions

The Church

The military orders

2 The city and urban life

Major cities

Coastal towns

Inland towns

3 The rural landscape

Land ownership and the rural population in the kingdom of Jerusalem

Taxes and tithes

Monopolies

The structure of the native casalia and the status of the local peasants

The Frankish villani and the planned villages

Illustrations Manor houses and farmhouses

Agriculture and rural industry

4 The defence of the Latin East

Typology of the Crusader castle

How the Franks built their castles

Siege warfare

5 Frankish ecclesiastical architecture

Introduction

Typology

6 Frankish domestic architecture

Introduction

Typology

7 Crafts and minor arts

Ceramics

Glass

Metalwork

Stone vessels and objects

Inscriptions and heraldry

Wood

Games

Arms and armour

Greek fire

Textiles

Leather working

Ivory carvings

Objects of bone and mother-of-pearl

Crusader coins

Crusader seals

8 The fine arts

Figurative sculpture

Non-figurative ornamentation

Wall painting Mosaics

Manuscript illumination

Icons

9 Building techniques and materials

Mortar and plaster

Wood

Stone

Construction

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Adrian J. Boas is Professor of Medieval Archaeology in the Departments of Archaeology and Israel Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is president of the international Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (SSCLE). His research focuses on the archaeology of the Crusader period and his publications include The Crusader World (2016), Jerusalem in the Time of the Crusades (2001) and Archaeology of the Military Orders (2006).