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The Architecture of Karak:
Town and Castle

Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP

Marcus Milwright

Bibliography

For the locations of other castles of the Crusader period, see:

Riley-Smith, J.

1991 Atlas of the Crusades. London: Times Books.

For a wide-ranging discussion of the history and culture of the Crusader period, see

Riley-Smith, J.

1995 ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades. Oxford: Oxford University Press (reprinted 2001).

The military technology of the Crusader and post-Crusader period is discussed in:

Nicolle, D.

1988 Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350. White Plains NY: Krauss International.
Rogers, R.

1997 Latin Siege Warfare in the Twelfth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

General studies on Crusader military architecture include:

Boase, T.

1971 The Kingdoms and Strongholds of the Crusaders. London: Thames and Hudson.

Boase, T. and Cleave, R.

1967 Castles and Churches of the Crusader Kingdom. London: Oxford University Press.

Hazard, H.

1977 ed. History of the Crusades IV. The Art and Architecture of the Crusader States. Madison Wi.: University of Wisconsin Press: chapter IV.

Kennedy, H.

1994 Crusader Castles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Prawer, J.

1972 The World of the Crusades. London: Wiedenfeld and Nicholson: chapter 8.

Smail, R.

1973 The Crusaders in Syria and the Holy Land. New York and Washington: Praeger Publishers: chapters IV, V.

For studies relating directly to the architecture of Karak, see:

Johns, J.

1996 Karak. Pp.280-83 in Encyclopaedia of Near Eastern archaeology, vol.3, ed. E. Meyers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pringle, D.

1993 The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. A Corpus. Volume I: A-K (excluding Acre and Jerusalem). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 286-95

1997 Secular Buildings of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. An Archaeological Gazetteer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 59-60 (no.124).

Online introductions to Islamic architecture (including limited discussion of military architecture) can be found at:

Aspects of Warfare during the Crusader period:

For further illustrations of Karak, see:

 

 

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