1st Edition
Exploring Outremer Volume II Studies in Crusader Archaeology in Honour of Adrian J. Boas
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 and medieval art, historiography, and not least, the Crusades and the Latin East.
Exploring Outremer Volume II is a collection of 15 original essays by the leading scholars in the field on the history and archaeology of the Latin East. It covers aspects dealing with the history, archaeology, architecture and function of several castles and fortifications in the Latin Kingdom, and presents new studies on the material, including pottery, numismatics and many other finds. In addition, it includes a chapter dealing with landscape archaeology.
This book will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Duchies of Edessa and Antioch, as well as the Crusades and Crusading Orders.
Introduction by the Editors
Rabei G. Khamisy, Rafael Y. Lewis and Vardit Shotten-Hallel
- Benjamin Z. Kedar
- Aren M. Maeir and Jeffrey R. Chadwick
- Rafael Y. Lewis and Michal Birkenfeld
- Vardit R. Shotten-Hallel, Hagi Yohanan, Moshe Fischer and Oren Tal
- Danny Syon
- Aleks Pluskowski
- Gil Fishhof, Amit Re’em and David Yeger
- Edna J/ Stern
- Robert Kool
- Joppe Gosker
- Simon Dorso, Yves Gleize and Élise Mercier
- Maxime Goepp and Jean Mesqui
- Hervé Barbé
- 'Abdallah Mokary and Vardit R. Shotten-Hallel
- Rabei G. Khamisy and Moshe Biram
Belvoir castle revisited: history and development
In search Ibelin Castle: experimenting with non-destructive archaeology
The blanche garde fortress at Tell es-Safi/Gath: an update on recent excavation results
Keeping the hydra in its cave: viewshed analysis and the Frankish blockade of Fāṭimid Ascalon (1132–1153)
Et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium
Jean II of Ibelin, Arsur castle and the Hospitallers
The archaeology of the Pardouns de Acre
Crusader landscapes: the current state of knowledge and future directions
Two recently discovered mural paintings and the development of monumental painting in twelfth-century Jerusalem
Franks, locals and merchants: Ceramic production in the Latin East
Between Moneta and Sikka: minters and mints in the Frankish East (1099–1291)
For want of a nail: horse and donkey shoes in the Kingdom of Jerusalem
On the significance of small finds: two new mother-of-pearl cross pendants from 'Atlit and their wider context
Enlarged-based arrow-loops in the Near East (twelfth–-fourteenth-century) defence or ostentation?
Text, loopholes and quarrels: an example of perfect agreement between historical sources, architecture and found objects in Safed castle from the thirteenth century CE
A tomb stone from Safed: new evidence for the Templay Castle Chapel (?)
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.
