Medievalists.net » Acre http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Medicine and surgery in the Livre des Assises de la Cour des Bourgeois de Jérusalem http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/15/medicine-surgery-livre-des-assises-de-la-cour-des-bourgeois-de-jerusalem/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/15/medicine-surgery-livre-des-assises-de-la-cour-des-bourgeois-de-jerusalem/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2014 22:50:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52623 The Livre des Assises, written in the thirteenth century in Acre, not only provides insights into the practice of medicine and surgery in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, but also suggests that the licensing and regulation of doctors reflected contemporary Islamic practice.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/15/medicine-surgery-livre-des-assises-de-la-cour-des-bourgeois-de-jerusalem/feed/ 0 Querimonia desolacionis terre sancte – The fall of Acre and the Holy Land in 1291 as an emotional element in the Teutonic Order tradition http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/24/querimonia-desolacionis-terre-sancte-the-fall-of-acre-and-the-holy-land-in-1291-as-an-emotional-element-in-the-teutonic-order-tradition/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/24/querimonia-desolacionis-terre-sancte-the-fall-of-acre-and-the-holy-land-in-1291-as-an-emotional-element-in-the-teutonic-order-tradition/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2012 05:31:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38221 Those Military Orders − the Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights, along with other Military Orders, had shed their blood across the Latin Kingdom and suffered many casualties in the final siege which took place in Acre between March and May 1291.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/24/querimonia-desolacionis-terre-sancte-the-fall-of-acre-and-the-holy-land-in-1291-as-an-emotional-element-in-the-teutonic-order-tradition/feed/ 0 The Great Men of Christendom: The Failure of the Third Crusade http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/29/the-great-men-of-christendom-the-failure-of-the-third-crusade/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/29/the-great-men-of-christendom-the-failure-of-the-third-crusade/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:29:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35216 It is my intention to show that the participation of monarchs in the Third Crusade had an adverse effect on the outcome of the Crusade. Whatever positive aspects of monarchical involvement in the Third Crusade were to be had can be seen at the beginning of the venture, when the Church needed financial and material support, as well as the prestige that royal participation could offer.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/29/the-great-men-of-christendom-the-failure-of-the-third-crusade/feed/ 0 The Massacre at Acre–Mark of a Blood-thirsty King? http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/24/the-massacre-at-acre-mark-of-a-blood-thirsty-king-2/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/24/the-massacre-at-acre-mark-of-a-blood-thirsty-king-2/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:42:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31297 The Christian forces in the Holy Land during the mid-to-late-1100s had, for many years, requested assistance to maintain their dwindling and increasingly challenged control in the Holy Land, but no help came. The tenuous rule of Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, in the mid-1180s, led to further internal conflict.

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