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Crusader castles

Title
Crusader castles / Hugh Kennedy.
Author
Kennedy, Hugh (Hugh N.)
Publication
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Description
xv, 221 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
Subject
  • Castles > Latin Orient
  • Architecture, Medieval > Latin Orient
  • Military architecture > Latin Orient
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Prologue to the study of Crusader castles -- 2. Fortification in the west and east before the First Crusade -- 3. Castles of the twelfth-century Kingdom of Jerusalem -- 4. Twelfth-century castles in the northern states (County of Tripoli, Principality of Antioch and County of Edessa) -- 5. Siege warfare in the Crusader lands -- 6. Nobles, Templars and Teutonic Knights in the thirteenth century -- 7. The Hospitallers in Tripoli and Antioch -- 8. Muslim castles of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- 9. Postscript: Crusader castles and the west -- Appendix: De constructione castri Saphet (translation).
ISBN
0521420687
LCCN
93037701
OCLC
  • 28928501
  • ocm28928501
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries