Crusaders and Franks

Benjamin Z. Kedar is an emeritus professor of history at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

• Preface; Franks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1047(with Reuven Amitai); A Note on Jerusalem's Bīmārīstan and Jerusalem's Hospital; L'appel de Clermont vu de Jérusalem; The Forcible Baptisms of 1096: History and Historiography; Crusade Historians and the Massacres of 1096; Emicho of Flonheim and the Apocalyptic Motif in the 1096 Massacres: Between Paul Alphandéry and Alphonse Dupront; Some Reflections on Maps, Crusading and Logistics; The Jerusalem Massacre of July 1099 in the Western Historiography of the Crusades; Did Muslim Survivors of the 1099 Massacre of Jerusalem Settle in Damascus? The True Origins of the al-Salihiyya Suburb (with Daniella Talmon-Heller); An Early Muslim Reaction to the First Crusade?; Again: Genoa's Golden Inscription and King Baldwin I's Privilege of 1104; The Voyages of Giuàn-Ovadiah in Syria and Iraq and the Enigma of his Conversion; The Significance of a Twelfth-Century Sculptural Group: Le Retour du Croisé (with Nurith Kenaan-Kedar); Some New Light on the Composition Process of William of Tyre's Historia; The Fourth Crusade's Second Front; The Outer Walls of Frankish Jaffa; Civitas and Castellum in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: Contemporary Frankish Perceptions; The Latin Hermits of the Frankish Levant Revisited; On Books and Hermits in Nazareth’s Short Twelfth Century; The Eastern Christians in the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem: An Overview; Convergences of Oriental Christian, Muslim and Frankish Worshippers: The Case of Saydnaya and the Knights Templar; Problems in the Study of Trans-Cultural Borrowing in the FrankishLevant (with Cyril Aslanov); Index.