Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements 2. Introduction 3. List of figures4. Note on place names 5. Notes on Contributors 6. I. Landscape and History of Settlement 7. II. Warfare and Fortifications 8. III. Economy, Arts and Society 9. IV. Narrative and Documentary Sources 10. Bibliography 11. Bibliography of Denys Pringle 12. Index

About the Author

Micaela Sinibaldi is currently serving as deputy director of the Kenyon Institute, Council for British Research, in the Levant; she has recently been the Director of the Islamic Bayda Project, Petra, Jordan and a senior post-doctoral fellow at Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin, Germany.Kevin Lewis was Past and Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London for the 2014/15 academic year.Jennifer Thomas completed her PhD at Cardiff University under the supervision of Denys Pringle; She is currently working as an archaeologist for Government of Saskatchewan in Canada.Balazs Major is Lecturer in the Department of Arabic Studies of the Pazmany Peter Catholic University in Hungary, and Chair of the Department of Archaeology.

Reviews

"This is a splendid, balanced collection, bringing together a pleasing blend of young and established scholars in papers that appropriately embrace the wide combination of archaeological, documentary, and topographical interests that have characterised Denys Pringle's own scholarship: a fine and fitting tribute."
--Christopher Tyerman, University of Oxford

This is a splendid, balanced collection, bringing together a pleasing blend of young and established scholars in papers that appropriately embrace the wide combination of archaeological, documentary, and topographical interests that have characterised Denys Pringle s own scholarship: a fine and fitting tribute.
--Christopher Tyerman, University of Oxford"