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Adrian J. Boas (Ph.D, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1995) is Professor of Crusader and Medieval Archaeology at the University of Haifa and is the president of the international Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. He has published extensively on Crusader history and archaeology including several books on Jerusalem, domestic architecture, and the Military Orders, and has excavated several urban and rural sites and castles.Rabei G. Khamisy (PhD, University of Haifa, 2014) is a lecturer at the Department of Archaeology of the University of Haifa and a member of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology. He has excavated at a number of sites in Israel and is completing a book on the administration of settlement in the Galilee during the Crusader Period.

Winner of the 2017 Verbruggen prize, awarded annually by the De Re Militari society for the best book on medieval military history. The awarding committee stated that the volume offers ‘a through exploration of all the sources, archaeological and literary, relating to an important site. A model for future work.’"The last couple of decades have been marked by a series of major advances in our understanding of the archaeological remains surviving from the crusader period, particularly those pertaining to the kingdom of Jerusalem... This present work on Montfort Castle expands upon this trend and is, in essence, a survey and summary of the achievements of the Montfort Castle Project (MCP), which was originally started in 2006 by scholars working at the University of Haifa. This project is still underway, so this book provides an interim report on progress so far... Overall, this work stands as testimony to the diligence, inter-disciplinary skill and methodological originality both of the project team as a whole and of Boas and Khamisy (who authored many of these articles) in particular. This is a very impressive piece of work and I feel sure that the team will continue to produce further thought-provoking results in the years to come."Nicholas Morton, in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 28.2 (2017), 237-8. "Boas' fundamental collection offers a lot of new material and fresh views and will stimulate upcoming discussions in the scientific community."Thomas Wozniak, in H-Soz-Kult, https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-27936

• ContentsAcknowledgements xiList of Plates xiiList of Tables xxiiiNote on Names xxivList of Contributors xxvIntroduction 1Adrian J. BoasSection 1The History of Montfort Castle1 Montfort Castle and the Order of the Teutonic Knights in the LatinEast 15Kristjan Toomaspoeg2 The Region of Montfort and Land Ownership in the Frankish Period 24Rabei G. Khamisy3 Montfort Castle (Qalʿat Al-Qurayn) in Mamluk Sources 28Rabei G. Khamisy4 Archaeological Evidence for the Mamluk Sieges and Dismantling ofMontfort: A Preliminary Discussion 41Adrian J. BoasSection 2Montfort Castle after the Crusader Period5 Montfort Castle in Travellers’ Descriptions and Illustrations 59Rabei G. Khamisy6 The Survey of Western Palestine Report on Montfort (1877) 73Adrian J. Boas7 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Expedition to Montfort (1926) 75Adrian J. BoasSection 3Architecture, Function, Design and Construction of Montfort Castle8 Initial Thoughts on the Architectural Development of the Castle 95Adrian J Boas and Rabei G. Khamisy9 Interpretation of the Parts 102Adrian J. Boas10 The Building Below the Castle 120Laura Aiello and Cecilia Luschi11 History and Archaeology of the Frankish Village of Tarphile 128Rabei G. Khamisy12 The Stones of Montfort: Sources of Stone for Montfort Castle 137Vardit Shotten-Hallel, Dorit Korngreen and Lydia Perelis Grossowicz13 Masonry and Masons’ Marks 150Rabei G. KhamisySection 4Finds from the 1926 Metropolitan Museum of New York Expedition toMontfort14 Introduction to the Finds 160Adrian J. Boas15 Ceramic Finds 163Adrian J. Boas16 The Winepress at Montfort 168Rafael Frankel17 Glass Finds in the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the 1926Expedition 176David Whitehouse†, Timothy B. Husband, Lisa Pilosi, Mary B. Shepardand Mark T. Wypysk18 Stone, Metal, Wood and Worked Bone Finds from the 1926Expedition 195Adrian J. Boas19 A Roman Imperial Wine Vessel? 221Tamar BacknerSection 5New Research20 The Montfort Castle Project (Mcp): A Summary of the Surveys and theFirst Six Excavation Seasons (2011–2015) 227Adrian J. Boas21 Coin Finds (1926–2012) and the Use of Money at Montfort 242Robert Kool22 Dendroarchaeological Investigations of Finds from Montfort Castle:Analysis of Finds from 1926 and 2011–2012 256Nili Liphschitz23 Tree Wormwood (Artemisia Arborescens) at Montfort Castle:The Possible Introduction of a Medicinal Plant from Western Europeto the Latin East in the Crusader Period 258Nativ Dudai and Zohar Amar24 The Stone Matrices from Montfort: About Moulds, Tin Relief and thePolychromy of Shields in the Thirteenth Century 266Andrea Wähning25 The Architectural Sculpture of Montfort Castle Revisited 273Nurith Kenaan-Kedar26 How Strong was Strong Mountain?Preliminary Remarks on the Possible Location of the Mamluk SiegePosition at Montfort Castle 282Rafael Lewis27 Two Board Games and Some Graffiti from Montfort 287Adrian J. Boas28 Brief Preliminary Remarks on the Sampling and Analysis of MortarsUsed in the Construction and Conservation of Montfort Castle 289Jonathan J. GottliebSummary and Conclusions 302Adrian J. BoasAppendix IFind Lists and the Division of Finds 305Adrian J. BoasAppendix IICompositional Analyses of Vessels and Window Glasses from Montfort(Weight Percent) 309David Whitehouse†, Timothy B. Husband, Lisa Pilosi, Mary B. Shepardand Mark T. WypyskiBibliographyAbbreviations 311Primary Sources 311Secondary Sources 313Index 327