Cultures of the medieval kingdom of Jerusalem : frontier inventiveness in the age of the Crusades / Benjamin Z. Kedar.

Author/creator Ḳedar, B. Z. author.
Format Book
PublicationIthaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2025.
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionviii, 551 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesMedieval societies, religions, and cultures
Medieval societies, religions, and cultures. ^A1455419
Contents Introduction. The cultural inventiveness of Frankish Jerusalem -- A tiny kingdom of diverse peoples -- Everyday life in the kingdom of Jerusalem -- An intellectual backwater? -- The clergy and the establishment of cores of devotion -- The husbanding of sanctity -- A candid portrait of the kingdom's most erudite cleric: William of Tyre (c. 1130-c. 1186) -- A twelfth-century Renaissance ruler: King Amaurry of Jerusalem (1136-1174) -- The Inventiveness of the Kingdom's Knights and Military-Religious Orders -- Burgesses, urban and rural -- The non-Franks -- Cultural activities in the kingdom of Acre (1191-1291) -- Conclusion. Footprints in the sand.
Abstract "A revisionist history of the Crusader Kingdoms in the Middle East that challenges and upends conventional thinking on the impact of the Crusades on the Holy Lands"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Kedar, B. Z. Cultures of the medieval kingdom of Jerusalem. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2025 9781501781711
LCCN 2024048427
ISBN9781501781704 hardcover
ISBN1501781707 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book
Standard identifier# CIPO000255382