A general illustrated account of the history and architecture of Crusader castles.

For the last 150 years the historiography of the Crusades has been dominated by nationalist and colonialist discourses in Europe and the Levant. These modern hi

The castles built by the Crusaders, Hospitallers, Venetians and Genoese in Cyprus, Greece, the Aegean, and on the Black Sea served to defend against a complex a

The Crusaders that landed in the Middle East in the late-11th century brought with them their own traditions of military architecture, but it was not long befor