"This book analyzes the gradual urban transformation of Jerusalem under Frankish rule. A key text for readers interested in the Crusades and the Latin East, the history of Jerusalem, and medieval cities"--

Anna Gutgarts is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Haifa. She is a historian of the Middle Ages, specializing in the Crusades and the Latin East, as well as cities and urbanization in the 11th-13th centuries. This is her first book.

Introduction: Frankish Jerusalem - Revisiting an Urban Landscape that was Both a Symbol and an Anomaly; 1. The Transformation of Frankish Jerusalem - History, Historiography and New Methodologies; 2. The Earthly City - Patterns of Settlement and Property Distribution; 3. Jerusalem and its Hinterland; 4. From Depopulated and Dilapidated Town into Capital: Social Structures and the Transformation of Jerusalem; 5. Continuity and Change in the Social Structures of Jerusalem in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century; Conclusion.