East and West in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean I: Antioch from the Byzantine Reconquest until the End of the Crusader Principality (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 147)

Claude Cahen's book on Crusader Antioch cast a long shadow. His thorough monograph seemingly leaves little more to be said. Decades may pass before scholars return to the topic. The long shadow fell even on the Wisconsin History of the Crusades which still seeks, essentially, to stich the written sources together into traditional narrative history, only to do it better. But topics such as architecture, or coins are optional extras and not much integrated into the whole picture. A thorough analysis of political and military developments is indeed the essential groundwork of most medieval history. But high politics was not the whole of life; and charters and texts are not the only witnesses to that life. Social and economic life has its own momentum and its own continuity. Its moral and spiritual aspects deserve historical study, and impose new historical disciplines. Crusades studies have become more interdisciplinary, and less monolithic. That new style of enquiry is fully reflected in the range and variety of the papers, tightly focussed on Antioch, printed in this volume. 1. Acts Of The Congress Held At Hernen Castle In May 2003 / Edited By K. Ciggaar And M. Metcalf -- 2. Acts Of The Congress Held At Hernen Castle (the Netherlands) In May 2006 / Edited By K. Ciggaar And V. Van Aalst -- 3. Acta Of The Congress Held At Hernen Castle (the Netherlands) In May 2009 / Edited By K. Ciggaar And V. Van Aalst. 1. The Duchy Of Antioch During The Second Period Of Byzantine Rule / Jean Claude Cheynet -- Georgian And Greek Illuminated Manuscripts From Antioch / Alexander Saminksy -- The Armenian Monasteries In The Black Mountain / Jos J. S. Weitenberg -- On The Syriac Orthodox In The Principality Of Antioch During The Crusader Period / Dorothea Weltecke -- Nikon Of The Black Mountain : Witness To The First Crusade? : Some Remarks On His Person, His Use Of Language And His Work, Named Taktikon, Esp. [logos] 31, Translation / Willem J. Aerts -- The Growth Of The Latin Church Of Antioch And The Recruitment Of Its Clergy / Bernard Hamilton -- The Description Of Antioch In Abū Al-makārim's History Of The Churches And Monasteries Of Egypt And Some Neighbouring Countries / Clara Ten Hacken -- The Military Orders In The Crusader Principality Of Antioch / Jochen Burgtorf -- Antioch : Medieval City Of Culture / Susan B. Edgington-- Adaptation To Oriental Life By Rulers In And Around Antioch : Examples And Exempla / Krijnie N. Ciggaar -- Six Unresolved Problems In The Monetary History Of Antioch, 969-1268 / D.m. Metcalf -- Archaeology Of The Antiochene Region In The Crusader Period / Tasha Vorderstrasse -- Antioch And The Crusaders In Western Art / Martine Meuwese. 2. The Principality Of Antioch And The Early History Of The Latin East / Tom Asbridge -- The Hospitaller Lordship Of Margat / Jochen Burgtorf -- Les Croisés Bourguignons Au Secours De La Terre Sainte Et D'antioche Après 1268 / Laurence Delobette -- A Survey Of The Measurements Of The Castles, Villages And Cities That Are Situated In The Kingdom Of The Just King Nūr Al-dīn Abū Al-qāsim Maḥmūd Ibn Zangī Ibn Āqsunqur In The Year 564/1168-9, As Described In Ms Arabe 2281 (bn Paris) (introduction, Translation And Arabic Text) / Tevfik Buyukasik-- The Description Of Edessa In Abū Al-makārim's History Of The Churches And Monasteries Of Egypt And Some Neighbouring Countries / Krijnie Ciggaar, Clara Ten Hacken -- Assimilation And Creation Of Greek Art In Antioch-on-the-orontes In Syria During The Second Period Of Byzantine Domination (969-1084) / Alexander Saminsky -- A Review Of Logos 38 Of Nikon Of The Black Mountain (introduction, Text And Translation) / W.j. Aerts -- Northerners In Antioch And Environs In History And In Northern Literature / Krijnie Ciggaar -- Medieval Encounters Between China, Mongolia, Antioch And Cilicia / Tasha Vorderstrasse -- The Medieval Mill Of Bānyās And Some Notes On The Topography Of The Town Of Valencia / Balázs Major. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. https://archive.org/details/ciggaar-metcalf-east-and-west-in-the-medieval-eastern-mediterranean-vol-1 Byzantine Empire; Principality of Antioch; crusades; medieval; Mediterranean 1. Antioch from the Byzantine reconquest until the end of the Crusader principality