Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem: Frontier Inventiveness in the Age of the Crusades

by Benjamin Z. Kedar

Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem is a revelatory portrait of the Frankish Levant at the time of the Crusades. Following victory in the First Crusade in 1099, the newcomers from Europe, or Franks, ruled a Christian kingdom in Jerusalem, then Acre, until 1291. Historians have written off this kingdom as a derivative cultural backwater. In this new social and cultural history, however, Benjamin Z. Kedar uncovers the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501781707
• ISBN13: 9781501781704
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 560 Pages