Social Change in a Hostile Environment: The Crusaders' Kingdom of Jerusalem

Aharon Ben-Ami

Published by Princeton University Press 1969

Social Change in a Hostile Environment

The Crusaders' Kingdom of Jerusalem

Aharon Ben-Ami

Volume 2062 in the series Princeton Studies on the Near East

In the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400874675

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Through a comprehensive case study of the twelfth-century Crusaders' Kingdom of Jerusalem, the author shows how a changing international system encourages or retards the development of social structures, thereby relating the Crusaders’ experience to contemporary affairs. The Kingdom’s social structure was influenced by intensive lslamic pressure on all sides, and its eventual collapse was due almost entirely to its failure to adapt its suddenly irrelevant feudal institutions to the demands of its new situation. Professor Ben-Ami suggests that the patterns exemplified in this conflict enable the exploration of the general idea that societies interlocked in a prolonged conflict tend to affect one another’s social organization as they respond to developing needs implicated in the international system.

Originally published in 1969.

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1. Inter-societal Relations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Historical Interlockage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
3. Institutional Lag and Innovative Functions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
4. The Critical Turning Points Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
5. International Systems and Induced Functions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
6. The Collapse of the Kingdom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
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