Acre and its Falls analyses a wide range of aspects of the history of Acre across the crusader period, combining political, military and cultural history, with a notable emphasis on the memory of the city in Europe.

Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  John France 1 The Capture of Acre, 1104, and the Importance of Sea Power in the Conquest of the Littoral  Susan B. Edgington 2 Clausewitz’s Wounded Lion: a Fighting Retreat at the Siege of Acre, November 1190  John D. Hosler 3 Martyrs for the Faith: Denmark, the Third Crusade and the Fall of Acre in 1191  Janus Møller Jensen 4 New Evidence for Identifying the Site of the Teutonic Compound in Acre  Adrian J. Boas and Georg Philipp Melloni 5 John of Antioch and the Perceptions of Language and Translation in Thirteenth-Century Acre  J. Rubin 6 Did the Templars Lose the Holy Land? The Military Orders and the Defense of Acre, 1291  Paul F. Crawford 7 The Fall of Acre, 1291, and Its Effect on Cyprus  Anna Gilmour-Bryson 8 The Fall of Acre in 1291 in the Court of Medieval Public Opinion  Charles W. Connell 9 Thadeus of Naples on the Fall of Acre  Iris Shagrir 10 The Fall of Acre (1291): Considerations of Annalists in Genoa, Pisa, and Venice (13th/14th–16th Centuries)  Marie-Luise Favreau-Lilie Bibliography Index