Overview

Winner of the 2017 Verbruggen prize Montfort Castle, the principal fortress of the Crusader Teutonic Order, was built in the 1220s and occupied and dismantled by the Mamluk army in 1271. This volume includes discussions on the castle's history, architecture, material culture, and the archaeological work carried out at Montfort.

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Author:   Adrian Boas ,  Rabei G. Khamisy
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   107
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   0.892kg
ISBN:  

9789004250468

ISBN 10:   9004250468
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   10 November 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements xi List of Plates xii List of Tables xxiii Note on Names xxiv List of Contributors xxv Introduction 1 Adrian J. Boas Section 1 The History of Montfort Castle 1 Montfort Castle and the Order of the Teutonic Knights in the Latin East 15 Kristjan Toomaspoeg 2 The Region of Montfort and Land Ownership in the Frankish Period 24 Rabei G. Khamisy 3 Montfort Castle (Qalʿat Al-Qurayn) in Mamluk Sources 28 Rabei G. Khamisy 4 Archaeological Evidence for the Mamluk Sieges and Dismantling of Montfort: A Preliminary Discussion 41 Adrian J. Boas Section 2 Montfort Castle after the Crusader Period 5 Montfort Castle in Travellers' Descriptions and Illustrations 59 Rabei G. Khamisy 6 The Survey of Western Palestine Report on Montfort (1877) 73 Adrian J. Boas 7 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Expedition to Montfort (1926) 75 Adrian J. Boas Section 3 Architecture, Function, Design and Construction of Montfort Castle 8 Initial Thoughts on the Architectural Development of the Castle 95 Adrian J Boas and Rabei G. Khamisy 9 Interpretation of the Parts 102 Adrian J. Boas 10 The Building Below the Castle 120 Laura Aiello and Cecilia Luschi 11 History and Archaeology of the Frankish Village of Tarphile 128 Rabei G. Khamisy 12 The Stones of Montfort: Sources of Stone for Montfort Castle 137 Vardit Shotten-Hallel, Dorit Korngreen and Lydia Perelis Grossowicz 13 Masonry and Masons' Marks 150 Rabei G. Khamisy Section 4 Finds from the 1926 Metropolitan Museum of New York Expedition to Montfort 14 Introduction to the Finds 160 Adrian J. Boas 15 Ceramic Finds 163 Adrian J. Boas 16 The Winepress at Montfort 168 Rafael Frankel 17 Glass Finds in the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the 1926 Expedition 176 David Whitehouse, Timothy B. Husband, Lisa Pilosi, Mary B. Shepard and Mark T. Wypysk 18 Stone, Metal, Wood and Worked Bone Finds from the 1926 Expedition 195 Adrian J. Boas 19 A Roman Imperial Wine Vessel? 221 Tamar Backner Section 5 New Research 20 The Montfort Castle Project (Mcp): A Summary of the Surveys and the First Six Excavation Seasons (2011-2015) 227 Adrian J. Boas 21 Coin Finds (1926-2012) and the Use of Money at Montfort 242 Robert Kool 22 Dendroarchaeological Investigations of Finds from Montfort Castle: Analysis of Finds from 1926 and 2011-2012 256 Nili Liphschitz 23 Tree Wormwood (Artemisia Arborescens) at Montfort Castle: The Possible Introduction of a Medicinal Plant from Western Europe to the Latin East in the Crusader Period 258 Nativ Dudai and Zohar Amar 24 The Stone Matrices from Montfort: About Moulds, Tin Relief and the Polychromy of Shields in the Thirteenth Century 266 Andrea Wahning 25 The Architectural Sculpture of Montfort Castle Revisited 273 Nurith Kenaan-Kedar 26 How Strong was Strong Mountain? Preliminary Remarks on the Possible Location of the Mamluk Siege Position at Montfort Castle 282 Rafael Lewis 27 Two Board Games and Some Graffiti from Montfort 287 Adrian J. Boas 28 Brief Preliminary Remarks on the Sampling and Analysis of Mortars Used in the Construction and Conservation of Montfort Castle 289 Jonathan J. Gottlieb Summary and Conclusions 302 Adrian J. Boas Appendix I Find Lists and the Division of Finds 305 Adrian J. Boas Appendix II Compositional Analyses of Vessels and Window Glasses from Montfort (Weight Percent) 309 David Whitehouse, Timothy B. Husband, Lisa Pilosi, Mary B. Shepard and Mark T. Wypyski Bibliography Abbreviations 311 Primary Sources 311 Secondary Sources 313 Index 327

Reviews

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

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

Author Information

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.

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