Description: The first comprehensive survey of monasteries and monasticism in the Near East during the 'Crusader' period.
Brief description: Bernard Hamilton (1932-2019) was Professor of Crusading History at the University of Nottingham. His numerous publications include The Leper King and His Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (2000), Religion in the Medieval West (2003) and The Christian World of the Middle Ages (2013).
Review Quotes: '... this a very significant piece of research. It is the first major study on this topic and it draws together an astonishing array of material - textual, material, artistic and archaeological - and it is to be hoped that it will stimulate further work in this field.' Nicholas Morton, Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean