Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Cambridge OCR Advanced Sciences) [Hardcover]

Ronnie Ellenblum (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 13, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0521554012 | ISBN-13: 978-0521554015

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 who settled in the Levant, had close relations with Eastern Christians, and were almost completely shut off from the Muslim society that lived elsewhere in the country.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Ellenblum has produced a truly imporant book that is bound to open a revisionist debate of great importance to the history of the crusader states." Hans Eberhard Mayer, American Historical Review

"...remarkable book...This is an important reassessment of Frankish settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, one that provides a new model for understanding that settlement. The book is also a model for how historical and archaeological sources can be marshaled and argued. And there can be no doubt that the evidence Ellenblum provides is impressive in its amount and detail. The result is a book that ranks among the major works in the field of Crusader studies in recent years." Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies

"This book offers a happy marriage of field archeology and textual analysis." International Journal of Middle East Studies

"Frankish Rural Settlement raises interesting questions about Frankish society in the Latin East. Ellenblum...make[s] a strong case for the Franks' closer connections to rural affairs than his scholarly predecessors had recognized and his labor in this regard is well worth his Sisyphean effort." Journla of the American Oriental Society

Book Description

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 re-examination of the historical sources. The author re-examines 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 who settled in the Levant, had close relations with eastern Christians, and were almost completely shut off from the Muslim society which lived elsewhere in the country.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 344 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 13, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521554012
• ISBN-13: 978-0521554015
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,469,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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