Acre and its falls : : studies in the history of a Crusader City / / edited by John France.

• Superior document: History of Warfare ; Volume 116
• TeilnehmendeR: France, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: History of warfare ; Volume 116.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 214 pages) :; illustrations.

In the crusader period Acre was in many ways a remarkable place, but the most striking thing about its history is the number of times it fell to enemies. The present volume Acre and Its Falls is unusual in that it analyses a wide range of aspects of the history of Acre across the crusader period, combining political, military and cultural history, with a notable emphasis on the memory of the city in Europe. This may have been a city famous for its falls, but most certainly not for them alone. Contributors are Adrian J. Boas, Charles W. Connell, Paul F. Crawford, Susan B. Edgington, Marie-Luise Favreau-Lilie, John France, Anna Gilmour-Bryson, John D. Hosler, Georg Philipp Melloni, Janus Møller Jensen, J. Rubin, and Iris Shagrir.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / John France -- 1 The Capture of Acre, 1104, and the Importance of Sea Power in the Conquest of the Littoral / Susan B. Edgington -- 2 Clausewitz’s Wounded Lion: a Fighting Retreat at the Siege of Acre, November 1190 / John D. Hosler -- 3 Martyrs for the Faith: Denmark, the Third Crusade and the Fall of Acre in 1191 / Janus Møller Jensen -- 4 New Evidence for Identifying the Site of the Teutonic Compound in Acre / Adrian J. Boas and Georg Philipp Melloni -- 5 John of Antioch and the Perceptions of Language and Translation in Thirteenth-Century Acre / J. Rubin -- 6 Did the Templars Lose the Holy Land? The Military Orders and the Defense of Acre, 1291 / Paul F. Crawford -- 7 The Fall of Acre, 1291, and Its Effect on Cyprus / Anne Gilmour-Bryson -- 8 The Fall of Acre in 1291 in the Court of Medieval Public Opinion / Charles W. Connell -- 9 Thadeus of Naples on the Fall of Acre / Iris Shagrir -- 10 The Fall of Acre (1291): Considerations of Annalists in Genoa, Pisa, and Venice (13th/14th–16th Centuries) / Marie-Luise Favreau-Lilie -- Bibliography / John France -- Index / John France.