Crusaders and Franks

Studies in the History of the Crusades and the Frankish Levant

Benjamin Z. Kedar

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781351947053
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European Medieval History
• Index: History

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.

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Abbreviations:

a.	author
abp.	archbishop of
b.	ibn (son of)
bp.	bishop of
c.	count or countess of
chr.	chronicler
e.	emperor
gm.	grand master
J.	Jerusalem
KJ.	Kingdom of Jerusalem
p.	patriarch of
pp.	pope
r.	river
rlr.	ruler
s.	sultan
v.	village

• Aachen: VII 170
• ’Abbas, Ihsan: III 287
• ’Abd al-Mu’min b. ‘Abd al-Haqq, a.: IX 166
• Abū Tmrān al-Fāsī, a.: I 467
• Abū, l-’Abbās Ahmad, a.: XXI 2–3
• Abū’l-Fida’, chr: VIII 48
• Abū ’1-Makārim, a.: XXI 1, 9
• Abū ’1-Qasim Makki al-Maqdisī: VIII 61
• AbūShāma, chr: XV 100
• Abū ‘Umarb. Qudāma, shaykh: IX 168
• Abū Zayd Ahmad b. Sahl al-Balkhl, a.: VII 162
• Accolti, Benedetto, a.: VIII 34–8, 41–2
• Acre: X 73; XI 500, 502; XIV 11; XV 94–5, 99–100, 103; XVI 5; XVII 1, 6–8, 12, 15, 26–7; XX 146–8; XXI 4
• harbor chain of: XV 94–5
• Occidental character of: XX 148
• Adela, c. Blois: VII 177–81, 183
• Adhémar, bp. Le Puy: VIII 36
• ’Ādil, al-, s.: 90–1, 97, 99, 100–1, 103:
• Adour, r.: VII 172, 179
• Adrastus, k. Argos: VII 160
• Adriatic Sea: VII 170
• Adso of Monti...

Table of contents

• Cover
• 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 Bīmāristān 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-Ṣāliḥiyya suburb (with Daniella Talmon-Heller)
• X An early Muslim reaction to the First Crusade?
• XI Again: Genoa’s golden inscription and King Baldwin I’s privilege of 1104
• XII The voyages of Giuàn-Ovadiah in Syria and Iraq and the enigma of his conversion
• XIII The significance of a twelfth-century sculptural group: Le Retour du Croisé (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