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.
Author(s): John France (ed.)
Series: History of Warfare, 116
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: XIV+214
List of Figures xi
Notes on Contributors xii
Introduction / John France 1
1. The Capture of Acre, 1104, and the Importance of Sea Power in the Conquest of the Littoral / Susan B. Edgington 13
2. Clausewitz's Wounded Lion: a Fighting Retreat at the Siege of Acre, November 1190 / John D. Hosler 30
3. Martyrs for the Faith: Denmark, the Third Crusade and the Fall of Acre in 1191 / Janus Møller Jensen 49
4. New Evidence for Identifying the Site of the Teutonic Compound in Acre / Adrian J. Boas and Georg Philipp Melloni 69
5. John of Antioch and the Perceptions of Language and Translation in Thirteenth-Century Acre / J. Rubin 90
6. Did the Templars Lose the Holy Land? The Military Orders and the Defense of Acre, 1291 / Paul F. Crawford 105
7. The Fall of Acre, 1291, and Its Effect on Cyprus / Anne Gilmour-Bryson 116
8. The Fall of Acre in 1291 in the Court of Medieval Public Opinion / Charles W. Connell 130
9. Thadeus of Naples on the Fall of Acre / Iris Shagrir 148
10. The Fall of Acre (1291): Considerations of Annalists in Genoa, Pisa, and Venice (13th/14th–16th Centuries) / Marie-Luise Favreau-Lilie 166
Bibliography 183
Index 207
