Benjamin Z. Kedar is Professor Emeritus of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a former president of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East and the founding editor of its journal, Crusades. Among his many books are Crusade and Mission and The Changing Land Between the Jordan and the Sea. He is a recipient of the Israel Prize in History and the Prix Gustave Schlumberger of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

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• Introduction: The Cultural Inventiveness of Frankish Jerusalem1. a Tiny Kingdom of Diverse Peoples2. Everyday Life in the Kingdom of Jerusalem3. An Intellectual Backwater?4. The Clergy and the Establishment of Cores of Devotion5. The Husbanding of Sanctity6. A Candid Portrait of William of Tyre,the Kingdom's Most Erudite Cleric7. King Amaurry of Jerusalem, a twelfth-Century Renaissance Ruler8. The Inventiveness of the Kingdom's Knights and Military-religious orders9. Burgesses, Urban and Rural10. The Non-franks11. Cultural activities in the Kingdom of acre (1191–1291)Conclusion: Footprints in the Sand

Benjamin Z. Kedar is Professor Emeritus of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a former president of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East and the founding editor of its journal, Crusades. Among his many books are Crusade and Mission and The Changing Land Between the Jordan and the Sea. He is a recipient of the Israel Prize in History and the Prix Gustave Schlumberger of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

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• Introduction: The Cultural Inventiveness of Frankish Jerusalem1. a Tiny Kingdom of Diverse Peoples2. Everyday Life in the Kingdom of Jerusalem3. An Intellectual Backwater?4. The Clergy and the Establishment of Cores of Devotion5. The Husbanding of Sanctity6. A Candid Portrait of William of Tyre,the Kingdom's Most Erudite Cleric7. King Amaurry of Jerusalem, a twelfth-Century Renaissance Ruler8. The Inventiveness of the Kingdom's Knights and Military-religious orders9. Burgesses, Urban and Rural10. The Non-franks11. Cultural activities in the Kingdom of acre (1191–1291)Conclusion: Footprints in the Sand

Benjamin Z. Kedar is Professor Emeritus of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a former president of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East and the founding editor of its journal, Crusades. Among his many books are Crusade and Mission and The Changing Land Between the Jordan and the Sea. He is a recipient of the Israel Prize in History and the Prix Gustave Schlumberger of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

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• Introduction: The Cultural Inventiveness of Frankish Jerusalem1. a Tiny Kingdom of Diverse Peoples2. Everyday Life in the Kingdom of Jerusalem3. An Intellectual Backwater?4. The Clergy and the Establishment of Cores of Devotion5. The Husbanding of Sanctity6. A Candid Portrait of William of Tyre,the Kingdom's Most Erudite Cleric7. King Amaurry of Jerusalem, a twelfth-Century Renaissance Ruler8. The Inventiveness of the Kingdom's Knights and Military-religious orders9. Burgesses, Urban and Rural10. The Non-franks11. Cultural activities in the Kingdom of acre (1191–1291)Conclusion: Footprints in the Sand