IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1502: Castle Spaces, III: Networks of Conquest - Understanding the Significance of Crusader Castles
Thursday 6 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Canterbury Christ Church University |
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| Organiser: | Alison Norton, Department of History University of Exeter |
| Moderator/Chair: | Nicholas E. Morton, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University |
| Respondent: | Nicholas E. Morton, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University |
| Paper 1502-a | Fortified Remains of the Templar and Teutonic Knights in Amanos: Sarı Seki and Haruniye Castles (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Crusades |
| Paper 1502-b | The Fortresses of the Crusades Period in Turkey (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Crusades |
| Abstract | The ideas and identities of crusader castles have long been entangled with militaristic discourses wherein scholars have sought to understand why these castles were built and how they developed over time. However, given the distribution scale of crusader castles, it is often difficult to unpick how these structures developed. One must acknowledge how various cultures and crusader states influenced these identities. This session seeks to critically discuss these questions by examining the castle-building efforts of the Templars and Teutonic Knights. These orders strategically sited a network of castles along a frontier zone of the Near East, which symbolized centers of control by the crusaders. In addition, this session will include a more detailed look at castle-building efforts in Turkey to provide a comparative framework for future studies. |