ABSTRACT

This collection is published in the Crusades Subsidia series in honour of Professor Adrian J. Boas, an archaeologist, historian and scholar who has contributed widely and significantly to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages. Professor Boas’ research encompasses the archaeology of the Latin East, military orders with particular emphasis on the Teutonic Order, material culture, architecture and medieval art, historiography, and not least, the Crusades and the Latin East.

Exploring Outremer Volume II is a collection of 15 original essays by the leading scholars in the field on the history and archaeology of the Latin East. It covers aspects dealing with the history, archaeology, architecture and function of several castles and fortifications in the Latin Kingdom, and presents new studies on the material, including pottery, numismatics and many other finds. In addition, it includes a chapter dealing with landscape archaeology.

This book will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Duchies of Edessa and Antioch, as well as the Crusades and Crusading Orders.

chapter 1|24 pages

In search of Ibelin Castle

Experimenting with non-destructive archaeology

chapter 2|19 pages

The Blanche Garde fortress at Tell es-Safi/Gath

An update on recent excavation results

chapter 3|26 pages

Keeping the Hydra in its cave

Viewshed analysis and the Frankish blockade of Fāṭimid Ascalon (1132–1153)

chapter 4|33 pages

Et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium 1

Jean II of Ibelin, Arsur castle and the Hospitallers

chapter 6|15 pages

Crusader landscapes

The current state of knowledge and future directions

chapter 8|25 pages

Franks, locals and merchants

Ceramic production in the Latin East

chapter 9|35 pages

Between Moneta and Sikka

Minters and mints in the Frankish East (1099–1291)

chapter 10|19 pages

For want of a nail

Horse and donkey shoes in the Kingdom of Jerusalem 1

chapter 11|20 pages

On the significance of small finds

Two new mother-of-pearl cross-pendants from ʿAtlit and their wider context

chapter 13|17 pages

Texts, loopholes and quarrels

An example of perfect agreement among the historical sources, architecture and found objects in Safed Castle from the thirteenth century ce

chapter 14|14 pages

A tombstone from Safed

New evidence for the Templar Castle Chapel (?)

chapter 15|19 pages

Belvoir castle revisited

History and development