Crusader Castles and Modern Histories

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Ronnie Ellenblum vient d’annoncer, via son éditeur, la sortie de son prochain ouvrage, * Crusader Castles and Modern Histories * . Dans la continuité de ses précédentes publications, il proposera une nouvelle synthèse sur la fortification franque.

He argues that fortifications were often built according to economic and geographic considerations rather than for strategic reasons or to protect illusory ‘frontiers’, and that Crusader castles are the most evident expression of a cultural dialogue between east and west