ABSTRACT

This volume is a collection of nineteen original essays by leading specialists on the history, historiography and memory of the Crusades, the social and cultural aspects of life in the Latin East, as well as the military orders and inter-religious relations in the Middle Ages. Intended to appeal to scholars and students alike, the volume honours Professor Sophia Menache of the Department of History, University of Haifa, Israel. The contributions reflect the richness of Professor Menache's research interests - medieval communications, the Church and the Papacy in the central and later Middle Ages, the Crusades and the military orders, as well as the memory and historiography of the Crusades.

part I|87 pages

The military orders

chapter 2|9 pages

The Templars as peacemongers

part II|104 pages

The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Latin East

chapter 9|18 pages

Urban soundscape

Defining space and community in twelfth-century of Jerusalem

chapter 10|20 pages

Frankish bathhouses

Balneum and furnus – a functional dyad?

chapter 12|12 pages

A rough guide to the Holy Land

Pilgrims’ use of the Mount Zion library in the fifteenth century

part III|72 pages

Ideology, propaganda and communication

chapter 15|20 pages

The ideology of Christian expansion in Muslim Iberia

The “Book of Deeds,” Bernat Desclot and the conquest of Majorca

chapter 17|11 pages

Philip II and Antwerp

The limits of representation 1

chapter 19|11 pages

Letters home

British crusaders in Flanders, France, Gallipoli and Palestine during World War I