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Author Ellenblum, Roni

Title Frankish rural settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem / Ronnie Ellenblum
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 321 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents pt. I. Presentation of the Problem. 1. A segregated society or an integrated society? 2. Criticism of the existing model -- pt. 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 Casale Imbert and Nova Villa. 6. The settlers: places of origin and occupations. 7. The geographic layout of a Frankish village: the example of Parva Mahomeria. 8. The neighbourhood of a Frankish castrum: the fields and the role played by the castellan. 9. A church as the nucleus of a settlement. 10. Mixed Frankish and local Christian settlements. 11. Frankish settlements and the collection of tithes -- pt. III. The Isolated Dwellings
Summary This book is a study of the spatial distribution of Frankish settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades, and of the spatial and social interrelation between the Franks and the indigenous population. It is based on an unprecedented field study of more than two hundred Frankish rural sites and on a close re-examination of the historical sources. The division of the country between Christian and Muslim populations is explained by the far-reaching social process of nomadisation and sedentarisation which began with the Muslim conquest in the seventh century and which reached its zenith before the Frankish conquest of the country. The author re-examines some of the basic assumptions of standard recent scholarship, and advocates a new model of the nature of Frankish settlement, as a society of migrants who settled in the Levant, had close relations with eastern Christians, and were almost completely shut off from the Muslim society which lived elsewhere in the country
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-309) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Land settlement -- Jerusalem -- History
Human settlements -- Jerusalem -- History
HISTORY.
Ethnic relations
Human settlements
Land settlement
Population
SUBJECT Jerusalem -- History -- Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069906
Jerusalem -- Population -- History
Jerusalem -- Ethnic relations
Subject Middle East -- Jerusalem
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 051100365X
9780511003653
9780511585340
0511585349