Acre and Its Falls: Studies in the History of a Crusader City

List of Figures xi
Notes on Contributors xii
Introduction / John France 1
1. The Capture of Acre, 1104, and the Importance of Sea Power in the Conquest of the Littoral / Susan B. Edgington 13
2. Clausewitz\'s Wounded Lion: a Fighting Retreat at the Siege of Acre, November 1190 / John D. Hosler 30
3. Martyrs for the Faith: Denmark, the Third Crusade and the Fall of Acre in 1191 / Janus Møller Jensen 49
4. New Evidence for Identifying the Site of the Teutonic Compound in Acre / Adrian J. Boas and Georg Philipp Melloni 69
5. John of Antioch and the Perceptions of Language and Translation in Thirteenth-Century Acre / J. Rubin 90
6. Did the Templars Lose the Holy Land? The Military Orders and the Defense of Acre, 1291 / Paul F. Crawford 105
7. The Fall of Acre, 1291, and Its Effect on Cyprus / Anne Gilmour-Bryson 116
8. The Fall of Acre in 1291 in the Court of Medieval Public Opinion / Charles W. Connell 130
9. Thadeus of Naples on the Fall of Acre / Iris Shagrir 148
10. The Fall of Acre (1291): Considerations of Annalists in Genoa, Pisa, and Venice (13th/14th–16th Centuries) / Marie-Luise Favreau-Lilie 166
Bibliography 183
Index 207