Crusader art in the Holy Land
Subtitle: from the Third Crusade to the fall of Acre, 1187-1291
By: by Jaroslav Folda.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 714
Subjects: Crusader art.; Christian art and symbolism -- Latin Orient -- Medieval, 500-1500.
Description: Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "[501] documentary photos of all twenty-seven known manuscripts decorated by Crusader book painters in the thirteenth century or painted or drawn in the Crusader East."--Page xxxi.

"This book forms part of a historical study on the nature and development of Crusader art in the immediate context of the Holy Land on the mainland of Syria-Palestine and in the broader setting of Europe and the Mediterranean world between 1098 and 1291"--Preface pg. lv.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 683-711) and index.
Table of contents: title: Reflections on the historiography of the art of the Crusaders in the thirteenth century; title: Part 1: 1187-1244; title: Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem and the aftermath: The art of the Crusaders, 1187-1192; title: The establishment of acre as the capital of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem following the Third Crusade: The art of the Crusaders, 1192-1210; title: The Crusader states in the time of King John of Brienne and the Fifth Crusade: The art of the Crusaders, 1210-1225; title: The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: 1225-1244; title: Part 2: 1244-1291; title: Turmoil in the Holy Land: 1244-1268; title: Acre and the art of the Crusaders: The final years, 1268-1289; title: The fall of Acre in 1291 and the end of the Crusader states in mainland Syria-Palestine; title: Conclusion: What is Crusader art?; title: Appendix: Annotated handlist of Western-influenced icons from the Monastery of St. Catherine's at Mount Sinai and Elsewhere.