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A Military History of the Levant during the Era of the Crusades: Conflict and Perspective Volumes I and II book cover

1st Edition

A Military History of the Levant during the Era of the Crusades Conflict and Perspective Volumes I and II

Edited By Michael S. Fulton
1008 Pages 8 Color & 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The first volume of this two-volume collection presents a military history of the Levant from the arrival of the First Crusade in Syria at the end of the eleventh century to the Third Crusade and the death of Saladin in the final years of the twelfth century.   Each chapter is written from the viewpoint of a different group. This approach gives voice to the major contingents of visiting... Read more

A Military History of the Levant in the Era of the Crusades: Conflict and Perspective

Vol. 1: Twelfth Century

Table of Contents

Maps

Preface

Introduction
Nicholas Morton

1.        First Crusade
John France

2.        County of Edessa
Alan V. Murray

3.        Principality of Antioch
Andrew D. Buck

4.        Kingdom of Jerusalem
Steve Tibble

5.        County of Tripoli
Kevin James Lewis

6.        Second Crusade
Jason Roche

7.        Seljuq Aleppo
James Wilson

8.        Burid Damascus
Alexander Mallett

9.        Zengids
Taef El-Azhari

10.    Shayzar under the Banu Munqidh
Niall Christie

11.    Nizari Ismaʿilis
Farhad Daftary

12.    Fatimid Egypt
Paul E. Walker

13.    Saladin
Yaacov Lev

14.    Third Crusade
Helen J. Nicholson

15.    Armenian Principalities
Federico Alpi

A Military History of the Levant in the Era of the Crusades: Conflict and Perspective

Vol. 2: Thirteenth Century

Table of Contents

Maps

Preface

1.        Kingdom of Jerusalem
Chris Marshall

2.        Antioch-Tripoli
Peter Edbury

3.        Lusignan Cyprus
Nicholas Coureas

4.        Fifth Crusade
Jessalynn Lea Bird

5.        Ayyubids
Bogdan C. Smarandache

6.        Crusade of Louis IX
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin

7.        Mongols
Timothy May

8.        Mamluks
Adam Ali

9.        Armenian Kingdoms
Federico Alpi

 

 

 

 

Biography

Michael S. Fulton is an Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario and an Instructor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. His research deals with the history and archaeology of conflict in the Levant during the period of the crusades. He is the author of Artillery in the Era of the Crusades (2018), Siege Warfare during the Crusades (2019), Contest for Egypt (2022) and Crusader Castle: The Desert Fortress of Kerak (2024).

 

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