Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem

by Ronnie Ellenblum

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.

Genres: History, Medieval

344 pages, Hardcover

First published February 26, 1998

Reviews

[Eric Graves · Rating 3 out of 5]

This books is incredibly well-researched but unless you study the crusades very heavily it will not interest you. The text is extremely dull and occasionally the author quotes French and Latin but does not translate and you mis his point if you do t translate for him. This book is a snoozer too. Unless you are studying this era heavily, pick something else. This is not for the faint of heart.