4. The Clergy and the establishment of Cores of devotion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: the Cultural inventiveness of Frankish Jerusalem 1
4. 1. A tiny Kingdom of diverse Peoples 15
5. 2. Everyday life in the Kingdom of Jerusalem 42
6. 3. An intellectual Backwater? 75
7. 4. The Clergy and the establishment of Cores of devotion 84
8. 5. The husbanding of sanctity 106
9. 6. A Candid Portrait of William of Tyre, the Kingdom’s Most erudite Cleric 148
10. 7. King Amaurry of Jerusalem, a twelfth-Century renaissance ruler 170
11. 8. The inventiveness of the Kingdom’s Knights and Military-religious orders 203
12. 9. Burgesses, urban and rural 242
13. 10. The non-franks 258
14. 11. Cultural activities in the Kingdom of acre (1191–1291) 282
15. Conclusion: footprints in the sand 316
16. Appendix 1. Amalric, Amalrich, Amalrico, Amaury—or Amaurry? How Should We Render Frankish Names? 323
17. Appendix 2. Was There a Large-Scale Massacre in Jerusalem in July 1099? 329
18. Appendix 3. The Nazareth Catalog 335
19. Appendix 4. Shaykh Rabī Visits the Christianized Dome of the Rock 339
20. Appendix 5. Frankish Captives in Cairo in the Twelfth Century 341
21. Appendix 6. Kings and Patriarchs of Jerusalem 343
22. Acknowledgments 345
23. List of Abbreviations 349
24. Notes 355
25. Selected Bibliography 499
26. Index 539