"Artillery in the Era of the Crusades provides a detailed examination of the use of mechanical artillery in the Levant through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Rather than focus on a selection of sensational anecdotes, Michael S. Fulton explores the full scope of the availa…
"This interdisciplinary volume is a 'one-stop location' for the most up-to-date scholarship on Southern Levantine figurines in the Iron Age. The essays address terracotta figurines attested in the Southern Levant from the Iron Age through the Persian Period (1200-333 BCE). The v…
Chapter One: Geography and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Chapter Two: Levantine Geography, History, and Agrarian Religion -- Chapter Three: Ancient Near Eastern Religion and the Storm-God Baal-Hadad -- Chapter Four: The Hebrew Bible and Elijah -- Chapter Five: Early C…
"In English Explorers in the East (1738-1745). The Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke, Rachel Finnegan offers an account of the influential travel writings of three rival explorers, whose eastern travel books were printed within a decade of each other. Mak…
Geschichte Israels: Von der Staatsgründung bis zur Gegenwart
by Zadoff, Noam
fromBeck'sche Reihe
Geschichte Israels: von der Staatsgründung bis zur Gegenwart
by Zadof, Noʿam
fromBeck Wissen
"Between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, the social and cultural worlds of medieval Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean were transformed by the religious impetus of the crusades. Today we bear witness to these transformations in the material and environmental record revea…
This volume provides translations of texts on the Mamluk Sultan Qalāwūn (1279-90) and his son al-Malik al-Ashraf (1290-93), which cover the end of the Crusader interlude in the Syrian Levant. Translated from the original Arabic, these chronicles detail the Mamluk perception of t…
