Crusader castles /
This is a new edition (the first since 1936) of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to Western military architecture written by T.E. Lawrence in 1910. This volume reproduces Lawrence's text, drawings, and photographs; provides a new introduction, critical notes, and index; a...
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1988
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword to the frist edition (1936) / by A.W. Lawrence
- Foreword to the present edition
- Crusader castles (Apology for the work, and objection to secondary criticism. A preliminary: to set forth Oman's view, and to suggest the lines on which I will work. Military architecture in Europe before the First Crusade. Byzantine military architecture. Military architecture of the Latins in Syria. Military architecture in Europe in the second half of the twelfth century)
- Appendices (Extracts from a preliminary draft of Crusader castles, 1909-1910. The strategic siting of crusader castles, 1911. Description of five castles in the county of Edessa, 1911)