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In the last thirty-five years B.Z. Kedar has become a leading historian of the field of the crusades, and of medieval and Middle Eastern history more broadly. This volume presents 31 essays written by eminent medievalists in appreciation of Kedar's talent, method and diversity. The collection relates to the Latin East and to the reciprocity between West and East in the time of the crusades. The individual essays deal with the history, archaeol...

For the last 150 years the historiography of the Crusades has been dominated by nationalist and colonialist discourses in Europe and the Levant. These modern histories have interpreted the Crusades in terms of dichotomous camps, Frankish and Muslim. In this revisionist study, Ronnie Ellenblum presents an interpretation of Crusader historiography that instead defines military and architectural relations between the Franks, local Christians, Mus...

This provocative study argues that many well-documented but apparently disparate events of the tenth and eleventh centuries - including drought and famine in Egypt, mass migrations in the steppes of central Asia, and population decline in urban centres such as Baghdad and Constantinople - were triggered by climatic and ecological change.

This provocative study argues that many well-documented but apparently disparate events of the tenth and eleventh centuries - including drought and famine in Egypt, mass migrations in the steppes of central Asia, and population decline in urban centres such as Baghdad and Constantinople - were triggered by climatic and ecological change.

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Revisionist study that unpacks the modern historiography of the Crusades and reinterprets Crusader military architecture.

This book is based on an unprecedented archaeological survey of more than two hundred Frankish rural sites.