Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 18th October 2024

Time: 8.00pm (AGM 7.30)

Venue: Reading School, Lecture Theatre

Description: For the Christians of the Latin West the loss of the city of Acre was the most traumatic event of the thirteenth century. For nearly two hundred years at immense human and material cost they had defended the states in Palestine and Syria established after the capture of Jerusalem in 1099. Previous disasters such as the loss of Edessa in 1144 and the terrible defeat at Hattin in 1187 had produced the huge armies of the Second and Third Crusades, but in 1291 there was no co-ordinated response and, consequently, the Latins never regained a foothold in Palestine, let alone recovered Jerusalem. This is an attempt to explain why this was so and to assess the long-term significance of the events of 1291.

How to book: Booking not required. Pre-lecture supper bookings to r.a.houlbrooke@reading.ac.uk

Price: £3 - Free to HA members, Associates and Students

Email: sexton44@gmail.com

Organiser: Reading Branch HA.

Lecturer: Professor Malcolm Barber, (Emeritus - University of Reading)

Region: South-East England

Branch: Reading