1st Edition
Warfare and Fortifications during the Age of the Crusades
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Chapter 1: Military Intelligence and the Two Sieges of Jerusalem, 1098 and 1099
John D. Hosler
Chapter 2: Crusader Strategy: Planning or Providence? The Case Studies of Caesarea (1101) and Tyre (1124)
Steve Tibble
Chapter 3: Head Taking and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: The Motivations for Taking Trophy Heads in the Latin East, 1097–1192
Ian J. Wilson
Chapter 4: Ayyubid Fortifications of Egypt: An Archaeological Gazetteer
Stephane Pradines
Chapter 5: “Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady”: St Louis and the Battle of Mansurah
John France
Chapter 6: Antioch at Bay: The Turkmen Wars of the Mid-Thirteenth Century
Nicholas Morton
Chapter 7: Cyprus and the Defence of the Latin East, 1254–1291
Peter Edbury
Chapter 8: The Armies of the Thirteenth-Century Latin East and a Doomed Defensive Strategy
Chris Marshall
Chapter 9: Wall-less in Gaza: A Unique Case of an Unfortified Provincial Capital in Mamluk Syria
Reuven Amitai
Chapter 10: Greek Fire (Naft) in Medieval Muslim Warfare
Yaacov Lev
Biography
Michael S. Fulton is a Canadian historian and archaeologist who specializes in medieval conflict and cross-cultural interactions, particularly around the eastern Mediterranean in the broad context of the crusades. He has published widely in this field; his books include 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). He is currently a part-time assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario and an instructor of medieval history at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Heather E. Crowley teaches history at Monterey Peninsula College (USA). Her research focuses on rural settlement in the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Eastern Mediterranean, where she examines the countryside of the crusader states and nearby Muslim polities. Her recent publications include the chapter “A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey? Agrarian Environments in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem” in the edited collection Crusades and Nature: Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages (2024) and a state-of-the-field survey about agriculture and animal husbandry for the forthcoming Material Culture of the Crusader States handbook.
