Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem

by Ronnie Ellenblum

Book Overview

This book is a study of the spatial distribution of Frankish settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades, and is based on an unprecedented field study of more than two hundred Frankish rural sites and on a close reexamination of the historical sources. The author reexamines some of the basic assumptions of standard recent scholarship, and advocates a new model of the nature of Frankish settlement, as a society of migrants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521521874
• ISBN13: 9780521521871
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"