Crusader Castles

by Hugh Kennedy

• ISBN13: 9780521799133
• ISBN10: 0521799139
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This 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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
A note on names	xv
Prologue to the study of Crusader castles	1	(10)
Fortification in the west and east before the First Crusade	11	(10)
Castles of the twelfth-century Kingdom of Jerusalem	21	(41)
Twelfth-century castles in the northern states (Country of Tripoli, Principality of Antioch and Country of Edessa)	62	(36)
Siege warfare in the Crusader lands	98	(22)
Nobles, Templars and Teutonic Knights in the thirteenth century	120	(25)
The Hospitallers in Tripoli and Antioch	145	(35)
Muslim castles of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries	180	(6)
Postscript: Crusader castles and the west	186	(4)
Appendix: De constructione castri Saphet (translation)	190	(9)
Notes	199	(13)
Bibliography	212	(5)
Index	217