'Le professeur D. Pringle compte certainement parmi les meilleurs connaisseurs de lhistoire, de larchologie et de larchitecture mdivales au Proche-Orient ; il est galement lun des auteurs les plus prolixes de la priode rcente, et les travaux quil a publis depuis le dbut des annes 80 nont pas peu contribu au dveloppement de la connaissance de la Terre Sainte.' Bulletin Monumental
Denys Pringle is a Professor in the Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, UK.
Contents: Preface; Church-building in Palestine before the Crusades; Churches and settlement in Crusader Palestine; The planning of some pilgrimage churches in Crusader Palestine; Cistercian houses in the Kingdom of Jerusalem; The fief of Aimery of Franclieu and the estate of the abbey of St Mary of Mount Sion in the territory of Jerusalem; Perceptions of the castle in the Latin East; A castle in the sand: mottes in the Crusader East; Templar castles between Jaffa and Jerusalem; The castles of Ayla (al-Aqaba) in the Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods; The castle and lordship of Mirabel; Il castello di Belmonte e la propriet ospedaliera della Terra di Emmaus nel regno crociato di Gerusalemme; Qalat Jiddin: a castle of the Crusader and Ottoman periods in Galilee (with A. Petersen, M. Dow and C. Singer); Castle chapels in the Frankish East; The church of the Holy Sepulchre in the castle of Tripoli (Mont Plerin); The chapels in the Byzantine castle of Sahyun (Qalat Salah al-Din), Syria; The spring of the Cresson in crusading history; Addenda and corrigenda; Index.