Crusaders and Settlers in the Latin East

Jonathan Riley-Smith

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000949810
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The studies here reflect Jonathan Riley-Smith's work as a historian, which began with research on the history of the military orders, the specific focus of the third section here. Out of this grew the concerns covered in the previous sections: an interest in the political and constitutional history of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the relations of the western settlers with the indigenous population of Palestine and Syria; the theory of crusading, involving research on theology and canon law, and the rôle of the popes as preachers, and at the same time detailed consideration of the responses of lay men and women to the ideas that were being presented to them. The two final papers explore some of the implications of crusading ideology and mythology in the modern world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Half Title
• Frontmatter
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Publisher’s Note
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• I Present and past
• II Casualties and the number of knights on the First Crusade
• III Early crusaders to the East and the costs of crusading 1095–1130
• IV Family traditions and participation in the Second Crusade
• V Toward an understanding of the Fourth Crusade as an institution
• VI Crusading as an act of love
• VII Christian violence and the crusades 3–20
• VIII The politics of war: France and the Holy Land 1–17
• IX Families, crusades and settlement in the Latin East, 1102–1131
• X Some lesser of~cials in Latin Syria
• XI Government in Latin Syria and the commercial privileges of foreign merchants
• XII King Fulk of Jerusalem and ‘the Sultan of Babylon’
• XIII Government and the indigenous in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem
• XIV The Crown of France and Acre, 1254-1291
• XV The origins of the commandery in the Temple and the Hospital
• XVI Guy of Lusignan, the Hospitallers and the gates of Acre
• XVII Further thoughts on the layout of the Hospital in Acre
• XVIII Were the Templars guilty?
• XIX The structures of the Orders of the Temple and the Hospital in c. 1291
• XX The Order of St John in England, 1827–1858
• XXI Islam and the crusades in history and imagination, 8 November 1898 - 11 September 2001
• Index