Anna Gutgarts is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Haifa. She is a historian of the Middle Ages, specializing in the Crusades and the Latin East, as well as cities and urbanization in the 11th–13th centuries. This is her first book.

• Introduction: Frankish Jerusalem – Revisiting an Urban Landscape that was Both a Symbol and an Anomaly; 1. The Transformation of Frankish Jerusalem – History, Historiography and New Methodologies; 2. The Earthly City – Patterns of Settlement and Property Distribution; 3. Jerusalem and its Hinterland; 4. From Depopulated and Dilapidated Town into Capital: Social Structures and the Transformation of Jerusalem; 5. Continuity and Change in the Social Structures of Jerusalem in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century; Conclusion.

'Gutgarts has aimed at providing a deeper and more nuanced vision of Jerusalem and its evolution under crusader rule. As new archaeological information comes to light, with this book in hand, the scholar has the means of gaining a better understanding than was previously possible of the twelfth-century city and the socioeconomic factors that shaped its development.' Adrian J. Boas, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies