Название: Montfort. History, Early Research and Recent Studies of the Principal Fortress of the Teutonic Order
Автор: Editors: Adrian Boas and Rabei G. Khamisy
Издательство: Brill
Год: 2017
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 371
Размер: 45.7 Мб
Язык: английский
Montfort Castle, located in the western Galilee, was the principal fortress of the Teutonic Order, one of the three great military orders of the Crusader period. It was built in the early thirteenth century and occupied and dismantled by the Mamluk army in 1271. It is among the finest examples of Crusader spur castles. This present volume includes discussions by 23 scholars, experts in their fields, in 28 chapters covering every aspect of past and recent scholarship on the history of the Teutonic Order and the castle, travellers’ descriptions, the architecture, the geographical setting, the material culture of the garrison, and detailed descriptions of the 1926 archaeological expedition to Montfort and the ongoing work of the Montfort Castle Project.