Crusader Castles

Written as an Oxford thesis in 1910 and later published, this study examines the military architecture of the Crusader states in Syria and Palestine. Lawrence surveys castles he had visited - among them Krak des Chevaliers, Sahyun, and the works of the Hospitallers and Templars - and argues about how far Frankish builders borrowed from Byzantine and Arab practice. Plans, photographs, and comparative notes on siting, concentric defence, and masonry support a technical case. The book is an architectural monograph on stone and siting, not a narrative of the Crusades: a reading of walls, not of battles.

Bound in mid-blue buckram, cover blocked in black and silver with an illustration. Dark grey endpapers. Dark blue slipcase.