ABSTRACT
All scholars who work on the history of the crusades and the Frankish East owe a substantial debt to David Jacoby for his many ground-breaking studies. His wide-ranging research on the Mediterranean world in the period between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries, when diverse cultures met and effected exchanges in the Levant, suggested that some discussion of the role which twelfth-century crusader art played in these developments would be an appropriate way to contribute to this volume in his honour.
