France and the Holy Land

Daniel H. Weiss is dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and former chair of the Department of the History of Art at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of numerous articles and four books on the art of the Middle Ages and winner of the Van Courtland Elliott Prize of the Medieval Academy of America. Lisa Mahoney is a Mellon dissertation fellow in the humanities and graduate student in the history of art at the Johns Hopkins University.

This book is especially valuable to both art historians and crusade historians, since it provides much that they would otherwise overlook. Catholic Historical Review 2004 This volume makes an excellent contribution to our understanding of the Crusades and culture during the High Middle Ages. Comitatus 2005 Offers a wide-ranging examination of cultural interchange in the Levant, which will be of interest not only for art historians but for scholars of the Latin East in general. -- Iris Shagrir Mediterranean Historical Review 2006 It will be quarried for its information and ideas for many years to come. -- Denys Pringle Crusades 2006