Contents: Introduction; Benjamin Z. Kedar: list of publications; The Holy Land, Archaeology and Iconography: De plaga que facta est in Hierusalem eo quod dominicum Deum non custodiebant: history into fable?, Amnon Linder; Gestures of conciliation: peacemaking endeavors on the Latin East, Yvonne Friedman; The medieval evolution of by-naming: notions from the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Iris Shagrir; Islamic preaching in Syria during the Counter-Crusade (12th-13th centuries), Daniella Talmon-Heller; 3 stages in the evolution of rural settlement in the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the 12th century, Adrian J. Boas; Frankish castles, Muslim castles and the medieval citadel of Jerusalem, Ronnie Ellenblum; Dialogo di due intellettuali intorno a Gerusalemme (sec. XIII ex), Gabriella Airaldi; Mongol provincial administration: Syria in 1260 as a case study, Reuven Amitai; A new text of the Annales de Terre Sainte, Peter W. Edbury; An icon of the Crucifixion and the Nativity at Sinai; investigating the pictorial language of its ornamental vocabulary: chrysography, pearl-dot haloes and çintemani, Jaroslav Folda;A deposit of 12th-century medieval seals at Caesaea: evidence of the cathedral archive of St Peter, Robert Kool; Notes on some inscriptions from crusader Acre, Denys Pringle; Acre au regard d'Aigues-Mortes, Jean Richard; Sharing sacred space: holy places in Jerusalem between Christianity, Judaism and Islam, Ora Limor; Der Prophet und sein Vaterland. Leben und Nachleben von Reinhold Röhricht, Hans Eberhard Mayer. Mentality, Law, Jews and World History: Naming pains: physicians facing sensations, Esther Cohen; Did all the land belong to the king?, Susan Reynolds; Medieval treasure troves and Jews, Michael Toch; Comparative history and world history: contrasts and contacts, Diego Olstein. The Crusades, The Military Orders and Commerce: Pope John X (914-928) and the antecedents of the 1st Crusade, Bernard Hamilton; Papal war aims in 1096: the option not chosen, Bernard S.
Bachrach; Knowledge, power and the medieval soldier, 1096-1550, Yuval Noah Harari; Finance and logistics of the Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa, Alan V. Murray; The chain of the Golden Horn, 5-7 July 1203, John Pryor (with Peter R. Wilson); The Hospitaller Commandery of Eterpigny and a postscript to the 4th Crusade in Syria, Jonathan Riley-Smith; A Venetian sailing to Acre in 1282: between private shipping and privately operated state galleys, David Jacoby; The testimony of Brother Henry Danet and the trial of the Templars in Ireland, Helen J. Nicholson; Images of Saracens on the pulpit of Santa Croce in Florence, Nirit Ben Arieh Debby; Economics in Dante's Hell, Steven Epstein; Caffa e il suo porto (secc. XIV-XV), Michel Balard; Medieval states and military orders: the Order of Calatrava in the late Middle Ages, Sophia Menache.