1st Edition

Exploring Outremer Volume II Studies in Crusader Archaeology in Honour of Adrian J. Boas

368 Pages 133 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

368 Pages 133 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

368 Pages 133 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction by the Editors

Rabei G. Khamisy, Rafael Y. Lewis and Vardit Shotten-Hallel

  1. Benjamin Z. Kedar
  2. In search Ibelin Castle: experimenting with non-destructive archaeology

  3. Aren M. Maeir and Jeffrey R. Chadwick
  4. The blanche garde fortress at Tell es-Safi/Gath: an update on recent excavation results

  5. Rafael Y. Lewis and Michal Birkenfeld
  6. Keeping the hydra in its cave: viewshed analysis and the Frankish blockade of Fāṭimid Ascalon (1132–1153)

  7. Vardit R. Shotten-Hallel, Hagi Yohanan, Moshe Fischer and Oren Tal
  8. Et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium

    Jean II of Ibelin, Arsur castle and the Hospitallers

  9. Danny Syon
  10. The archaeology of the Pardouns de Acre

  11. Aleks Pluskowski
  12. Crusader landscapes: the current state of knowledge and future directions

  13. Gil Fishhof, Amit Re’em and David Yeger
  14. Two recently discovered mural paintings and the development of monumental painting in twelfth-century Jerusalem

  15. Edna J/ Stern
  16. Franks, locals and merchants: Ceramic production in the Latin East

  17. Robert Kool
  18. Between Moneta and Sikka: minters and mints in the Frankish East (1099–1291)

  19. Joppe Gosker
  20. For want of a nail: horse and donkey shoes in the Kingdom of Jerusalem

  21. Simon Dorso, Yves Gleize and Élise Mercier
  22. On the significance of small finds: two new mother-of-pearl cross pendants from 'Atlit and their wider context

  23. Maxime Goepp and Jean Mesqui
  24. Enlarged-based arrow-loops in the Near East (twelfth–-fourteenth-century) defence or ostentation?

  25. Hervé Barbé
  26. Text, loopholes and quarrels: an example of perfect agreement between historical sources, architecture and found objects in Safed castle from the thirteenth century CE 

  27. 'Abdallah Mokary and Vardit R. Shotten-Hallel
  28. A tomb stone from Safed: new evidence for the Templay Castle Chapel (?)

  29. Rabei G. Khamisy and Moshe Biram
    Belvoir castle revisited: history and development

Biography

Rabei Khamisy is a senior lecturer at the Department of Archaeology in Haifa, and a member of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology. His current field work includes excavations in the Frankish sites of Montfort castle, Castellum Regis and Khirbat al-Manhata, as well as excavations in the Templar fort at Dor.

Rafael Y. Lewis is a senior lecturer in the Department of Land of Israel Studies at Ashkelon Academic College, a senior fellow at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and a research associate at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology in the University of Haifa.

Vardit R. Shotten-Hallel is an architect and archaeologist working in the Archaeological Research Department, Israel Antiquities Authority. Her research focuses on medieval architecture, particularly building materials and technologies in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. She is currently leading the research project on ‘Atlit Castle.