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Author: Kristian Molin
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe capture of Jerusalem by the "First Crusade" in 1099 heralded the beginning of an armed struggle in Palestine. It was a war dominated by the building, securing and besieging of castles. This work covers the military history of the crusades and investigates the role of a wide range of castles.
Author: Kristian Molin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2001-04-01
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 0826432018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Hugh Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521799133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA general illustrated account of the history and architecture of Crusader castles.
Author: Thomas Edward Lawrence
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Hugh Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-01-15
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1316583597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Robin Fedden
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Edward Lawrence
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780781800389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Thomas Edward Lawrence
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Nicolle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-05-20
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 1472803817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Stephen Richard Turnbull
Publisher:
Published: 2003
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