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Frankish rural settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem

This book is based on an unprecedented archaeological survey of more than two hundred Frankish rural sites. It reveals the real extent of Frankish settlement during the Crusades, and places that settlement in the broader context of the decay of eastern Christianity which continued throughout the period of western 'domination'.
Print Book, English, 1998
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1998
History
xvii, 321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780521554015, 0521554012
35068274
Acknowledgments; Part I. Presentation of the Problem: 1. A segregated society or an integrated society?; 2. Criticism of the existing model; Part II. The Castrum, The Burgus and the Village: 3. Castellum regis; 4. Evidence about the existence of Frankish settlements; 5. The rights and duties of the Frankish settlers in the Frankish settlements of Casale Imbert and Nova Villa; 6. The settlers: their places of origin and their occupations; 7. The geographic layout of a Frankish village: the example of Parva Mahomeria; 8. The neighbourhood of a Frankish castrum; 9. The church as a nucleus of a Frankish castrum; 10. Mixed Frankish and local Christian settlements; 11. Frankish settlements and the collection of tithes; Part III. Isolated Dwellings: 12. The list of Jean of Ibelin; 13. Frankish settlement and the fief of the camerarius regis; 14. The isolated dwelling; 15. Administration of rural estates; 16. Settlement activities of the military orders: the castle and flour mills in Da'uk and Recordana; Part IV. The Spatial Distribution of Frankish Settlement: 17. The boundaries of Frankish settlement in western Galilee and Samaria; 18. The spatial distribution of Frankish settlement north of Jerusalem; 19. Spatial distribution of Christian and Muslim settlements in Samaria; 20. Differential geographical changes and the cultural borders of Samaria and Galilee; Summary and conclusions; Bibliography; Appendix.