Ronnie Ellenblum: 2 books
The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean
Climate Change and the Decline of the East, 950–1072
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
As a 'Medieval Warm Period' prevailed in Western Europe during the tenth and eleventh centuries, the eastern Mediterranean region, from the Nile to the Oxus, was suffering from a series of climatic disasters which led to the decline of some of the most important civilizations and cultural centres...
In Laudem Hierosolymitani
Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In the thirty-five years since B.Z. Kedar published the first of his many studies on the crusades, he has become a leading historian of this field, and of medieval and Middle Eastern history more broadly. His work has been groundbreaking, uncovering new evidence and developing new research tools and...