Intellectual activity in Acre : socio-cultural characteristics -- Acre's Christian and Jewish centres of teaching and learning -- Language and translation -- Acre as a meeting point of juridical traditions -- The study of Islam -- Theological exchanges with Oriental Christians "On May 18, 1291 Frankish Acre was taken by the Mamluks and destroyed, marking, as Prawer has written, the end of the history of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. As is well- known, during the preceding century Acre was a major urban centre, which served as the capital of the kingdom of Jerusalem and as a major commercial hub. But another important aspect of the thirteenth-century city remains unexplored: During that period Acre housed a considerable number of learned men, some of whom possessed knowledge that was unique and rare"-- | 
Learning in a crusader city [0,16 mb]