Focusing on Jerusalem under Frankish rule following the Crusader conquest of 1099, this book sheds light on the dynamic socio-economic factors that shaped Jerusalem's gradual urban transformation. In exploring the extensive corpus of medieval property records, it reveals that the growth of Jerusalem's monumental and symbolic landscape, as befitted its new status as the capital of the Latin Kingdom, was in tandem with more mundane facets of life in the city, such as growing residential settlement patterns, and the expansion of its rural hinterland. This places the history of Frankish Jerusalem in a broader theoretical framework by analyzing the socio-economic and institutional mechanisms such as immigration and the formation of medieval trust that shaped the cityscape during a particularly tumultuous period in its history, and places it against the backdrop of medieval urbanisation processes in other regions.
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An in-depth analysis of the dynamic process of urbanisation in Frankish Jerusalem.
Introduction: Frankish Jerusalem Revisiting an Urban Landscape that
was Both a Symbol and an Anomaly;
1. The Transformation of Frankish Jerusalem
History, Historiography and New Methodologies;
2. The Earthly City
Patterns of Settlement and Property Distribution;
3. Jerusalem and its
Hinterland;
4. From Depopulated and Dilapidated Town into Capital: Social
Structures and the Transformation of Jerusalem;
5. Continuity and Change in
the Social Structures of Jerusalem in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century;
Conclusion.
Anna Gutgarts is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Haifa. She is a historian of the Middle Ages, specializing in the Crusades and the Latin East, as well as cities and urbanization in the 11th13th centuries. This is her first book.
