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Winner of the 2017 Verbruggen prize Montfort Castle, the principal fortress of the Crusader Teutonic Order, was built in the 1220s and occupied and dismantled by the Mamluk army in 1271. This volume includes discussions on the castle's history, architecture, material culture, and the archaeological work carried out at Montfort.
About the author
Adrian J. Boas (Ph.D, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1995) is Professor of Crusader and Medieval Archaeology at the University of Haifa and is the president of the international Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. He has published extensively on Crusader history and archaeology including several books on Jerusalem, domestic architecture, and the Military Orders, and has excavated several urban and rural sites and castles.
Rabei G. Khamisy (PhD, University of Haifa, 2014) is a lecturer at the Department of Archaeology of the University of Haifa and a member of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology. He has excavated at a number of sites in Israel and is completing a book on the administration of settlement in the Galilee during the Crusader Period.
