Encounters: The Crusades In 50 Objects

Cathleen A. Fleck, Elizabeth Lapina, Richard A. Leson, Vardit Ruth Shotten (Autoren)

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288 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-01672-6 (ISBN)

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From the late eleventh to the early fourteenth century, western Europeans established the crusader states of the Levant and had unprecedented commercial, cultural, and military exchanges with the Middle East. Through a focused analysis of fifty objects, this book examines what material culture can tell us about interpersonal, interfaith, cross-cultural, and trans-regional encounters during this period of the medieval crusades.

This richly illustrated volume explores Latin Christian, Eastern Christian, Muslim, and Jewish objects, reflecting the variety of artifacts surviving from this period and region, including sculpture, glassware, metalware, manuscripts, textiles, painting, coins, and seals. Addressing the themes of Belief, Conflict, Exchange, Power, and Memory, the essays examine the encounters of each object with its environments throughout its history to show the richness and multiplicities of material culture and perspectives in the Middle Ages, which lead to the complexities of the region today.

The book stands as a valuable resource for students and scholars of the medieval crusades, the medieval Middle East and Europe, as well as all those interested in archaeology, art history, global history and religious studies more broadly.

Cathleen A. Fleck is Professor of Art History and Director of the School of Visual Studies at the University of Missouri Columbia. She has published articles and monographs on the court art of Naples and Avignon and representations of Jerusalem in the crusader era of the Middle Ages (c. 1187-1356). Elizabeth Lapina is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her main interest is in perceptions and representations – textual and visual – of the crusading movement in the twelfth-thirteenth centuries, on which she has published widely. Richard A. Leson is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research and publications focus on the art and architectural patronage of elite French families, with a special emphasis on heraldry. He is currently writing about the life and artistic patronage of Jeanne of Flanders (ca. 1272–1333) Vardit Ruth Shotten is an architect and archaeologist working in the Archaeological Research Department, Israel Antiquities Authority, whose research and writing focuses on medieval architecture, particularly in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. She is currently leading the research project on ‘Atlit Castle and teaches at the University of Haifa.

List of Illustrations

Introduction

I.Belief

Cross
Yeshiva capital
Icon of St. Sergius and female donor
Qur’an of Nur al-Din
Painted fragment of an angel from Gethsemane
Reliquary of St. Marina
Altar from ‘Atlit Castle
Candlesticks from Church of the Nativity
Icon of the Nativity and Adoration of the Magi
Syriac lectionary

II. Conflict

Aleppo Codex
Slab with Coats of arms over a Fatimid inscription
Cairo Genizah fragment
Jerusalem pilaster
Sword
D’Arenberg Basin
Game board
Gospels of T’oros Roslin
Templar seal
Bell from Acre

III. Exchange

Imitation dinar
Sugar mold
Panel of a Holy Sepulcher reliquary
Buttons
Dagger with scabbard
Drinking cup
Albarello
Arsenal Old Testament
Windowpane fragment
Freer Canteen

IV. Power

Front cover of Psalter of Queen Melisende
Map of Jerusalem
Seal cast of Hospitaller master
Carved head of a knight
Denier from Amalric I
Miter of James of Vitry
Stone matrix
Jamb capital
Legal document
Heraldic shield relief

V. Memory

Cadouin shroud
Pilgrim’s flask
Minbar of Nur al-Din/Saladin
Tomb of Baldwin V fragment
Seal matrix of Nachmanides
Pair of glass beakers
Histoire d’Outremer (History of Deeds done Beyond the Sea)
Epitaph stone of Isabel de Hana
Grandson Antependium
View of Acre from the Cocharelli Codex

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.1.2026
Reihe/Serie	Encounters: in 50 Objects
Zusatzinfo	66 Halftones, color; 66 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-032-01672-8 / 1032016728
ISBN-13	978-1-032-01672-6 / 9781032016726
Zustand	Neuware