Hosler - Siegeof Acre, 1189-1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the battle that decided the third crusade

THE SIEGE OF ACRE, 11891191

Copyright 2018 John D. Hosler

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In memory of
Edward Skip Cox,
Requiescat in pace.

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PLATES AND MAPS

Plates

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My work on Acre has benefitted from the generosity and expertise of numerous colleagues, acquaintances, and friends. I especially thank Marika Lysandrou at Yale University Press for her advice and assistance and Heather McCallum for her guidance and encouragement, as well as Kelly DeVries, who introduced me to her in the first place. He and John France have been extremely helpful and receptive mentors in too many ways to count. I am also grateful to my former professors at the University of Delaware, Daniel Callahan and Lawrence Duggan, for my early grounding in Crusades studies, as well as for their continuing support, suggestions, and ideas. For their assistance in answering questions or acting as sounding boards at conferences and through correspondence, I thank David Bachrach, Dana Cushing, Ilana Krug, Kenneth Madison, Alexander Pavuk, L.J. Andrew Villalon, Nicholas Paul, Joanna Phillips, Andrew Holt, and especially Daniel Franke, as well as the general membership of De Re Militari. I am indebted to my colleagues in Israel: Allon Klebanoff, the faculty and staff at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, and Abdu Matta, my tour guide in Akko. For consistently locating my research materials, I thank the staffs at the Earl S. Richardson Library at Morgan State University, the Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University, and the Library of Congress. My sister, Gina Lamb, applied her professional editing skills to the final draft. As always, I thank my wife, Holly, for her sacrifice of many hours to facilitate my writing, as well as my three young children, Gianna Marie, Michael Plantagenet, and Rocco Alexander, who freed up more hours for composition by going to bed on time and sleeping in late.

This book is dedicated to Edward Skip Cox, my good friend and seminar mate at Iowa State University, who died too young from complications from cancer in 2015. His memorial was held on the exact day I traveled to Akko to research this book.

ABBREVIATIONS

Unless otherwise noted in the text, English translations are taken from the applicable editions above, as well as the following:

The Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa: The history of the expedition of the Emperor Frederick and related texts, trans. G.A. Loud (Farnham, 2013) [for Ansbert and Blasien].

The Chronicle of Richard of Devizes, concerning the Deeds of Richard I, king of England, and Richard of Cirencesters Description of Britain, trans. J.A. Giles (London, 1841).

The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: Sources in translation, trans. P.W. Edbury (Aldershot, 1998) [for Eracles].

The Annals of Roger de Hoveden