Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Map 1 Frankish rural sites in Palestine
- PART I PRESENTATION OF THE PROBLEM
- PART II THE “CASTRUM,” THE BURGUS, AND THE VILLAGE
- PART III THE ISOLATED DWELLINGS
- PART IV THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF FRANKISH SETTLEMENT
- 17 The boundaries of Frankish settlement in Western Galilee and Samaria
- 18 The spatial distribution of Frankish settlement north of Jerusalem
- 19 Spatial distribution of Christian and Muslim settlements in Samaria
- 20 Differential geographical changes and the cultural borders of Samaria and the Galilee
- 21 Summary and conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
17 - The boundaries of Frankish settlement in Western Galilee and Samaria
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Map 1 Frankish rural sites in Palestine
- PART I PRESENTATION OF THE PROBLEM
- PART II THE “CASTRUM,” THE BURGUS, AND THE VILLAGE
- PART III THE ISOLATED DWELLINGS
- PART IV THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF FRANKISH SETTLEMENT
- 17 The boundaries of Frankish settlement in Western Galilee and Samaria
- 18 The spatial distribution of Frankish settlement north of Jerusalem
- 19 Spatial distribution of Christian and Muslim settlements in Samaria
- 20 Differential geographical changes and the cultural borders of Samaria and the Galilee
- 21 Summary and conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The map of Frankish settlement in the Latin Kingdom, as emerges from the documentary and field survey (Map 1 and appendix), is totally different from that presented by the proponents of the existing model. The Franks created developed castra, unfortified villages, centers of seigniorial estates, manor houses, farm houses, monasteries, abbeys, and many other types of settlement. They constructed new roads and saw to the maintenance of the existing ones. They instituted transport regulations for the rural roads and byways and took care to ensure free movement for the users thereof. They dealt with the marking and apportioning of fields, understood the importance of water in semi-arid zones, built flour mills and bridges, and learnt how to cultivate edible products, such as sugar cane, with which they had not been familiar in their countries of origin. I attach great importance also to the collection of tithes in kind and not only in coin – a fact which necessitated the construction of storerooms and a network of rural roads, and the acquisition of greater expertise concerning seasonal cultivation and the quality of crops. In short, this rural settlement was exploited by a comparatively welldeveloped system of rural adminstration.
The boundaries of Frankish settlement in Galilee
A careful examination of map 1 reveals the existence of regional differentiation in the spatial distribution of Frankish settlements. The Franks settled only in some of the regions while they refrained from settling in others.
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- Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem , pp. 213 - 221Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998