Unknown Crusader Castles

Unknown Crusader Castles
Author: Kristian Molin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2001-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826432018

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The capture of Jerusalem by the First Crusade in 1099 signalled the beginning of an armed struggle in Palestine and throughout the Eastern Mediterranean which lasted until the 15th century. It was a war dominated by the building, securing and besieging of castles rather than by pitched battles. Kristian Molin covers the military history of the crusades on a wider geographical scale than previous historians, taking in Armenia, Cyprus and Greece as well as the Holy Land. He also shows the role of castles as administrative, judicial and social centres in times of peace as well as in war. "Unknown Crusader Castles" provides a fresh perspective on the history of the crusades.

Crusader Castles

Crusader Castles
Author: Hugh Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1994
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780521799133

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A general illustrated account of the history and architecture of Crusader castles.

Crusader Castles

Crusader Castles
Author: Thomas Edward Lawrence
Publisher:
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1988
Genre: Architecture, Medieval
ISBN:

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This is a new edition (the first since 1936) of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to Western military architecture written by T.E. Lawrence in 1910. This volume reproduces Lawrence's text, drawings, and photographs; provides a new introduction, critical notes, and index; and reassesses in light of recent scholarship Lawrence's controversial claim that Crusader castles of the 12th century owed more to castles in the West than to anything the Franks found in the East, and that western military architecture absorbed little or nothing from the Orient before the 12th century.

Crusader Castles

Crusader Castles
Author: Hugh Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2001-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316583597

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This is a general account of the history and architecture of Crusader castles in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, County of Tripoli and Principality of Antioch between 1099 and 1291, the years during which the Crusaders had a permanent presence on the Levantine coast. Extensive use is made of contemporary chronicles to show the reasons why castles were built and how they were used in peace and war. The book is fully illustrated by photographs, drawings and plans, and contains a comprehensive bibliography.

Crusader Castles

Crusader Castles
Author: Robin Fedden
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1957
Genre: Castles
ISBN:

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Crusader Castles

Crusader Castles
Author: Thomas Edward Lawrence
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1992
Genre: Castles
ISBN: 9780781800389

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This is a new edition (the first since 1936) of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to Western military architecture written by T.E. Lawrence in 1910. This volume reproduces Lawrence's text, drawings, and photographs; provides a new introduction, critical notes, and index;and reassesses in light of recent scholarship Lawrence's controversial claim that Crusader castles of the 12th century owed more to castles in the West than to anything the Franks found in the East, and that western military architecture absorbed little or nothing from the Orient before the 12thcentury.

Crusader Castles

Crusader Castles
Author: Thomas Edward Lawrence
Publisher:
Total Pages: 154
Release: 1990
Genre:
ISBN:

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Crusader Castles in Cyprus, Greece and the Aegean 1191–1571

Crusader Castles in Cyprus, Greece and the Aegean 1191–1571
Author: David Nicolle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2013-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472803817

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The castles built by the Crusaders, Hospitallers, Venetians and Genoese in Cyprus, Greece, the Aegean, and on the Black Sea served to defend against a complex array of constantly changing threats: Mamluks, Catalan mercenaries, Ottoman Turks, Byzantines, independent Islamic states, Timur-i-Lenk, and widespread piracy, to name but few. The resulting fortifications some inherited from conquered the territories of the former Byzantine empire, some built from scratch were very different to those found in the Middle East. This superbly illustrated book explores their design, development and fate in detail, documenting the rich architectural heritage of this region and its complex history.

Crusader Castles

Crusader Castles
Author: Henry Romilly Fedden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1957
Genre: Castles
ISBN:

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Crusader Castles

Crusader Castles
Author: Robin Fedden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1967
Genre: Architecture, Medieval
ISBN:

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