In the later thirteenth century the Latin East, already crippled by civil war and treated as a pawn in the empire building schemes of several western rulers, also faced the rise of two new eastern powers. In this joint podcast, Sajia Hanif and Kevin Vogelaar recount the rise of the Mongol empire and the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. As these formidable new political dynasties rose to prominence, they quickly found that they had to contend with each other. Their titanic struggle set the stage for the final decades of the Kingdom of Jerusalem's survival on the Levantine mainland. Listen to find out how the shifting fortunes of the Mongols and the Mamluks changed the political landscape surrounding the crusader states.
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The Crusader States is exceptionally grateful to Dr. Barbara Boehm, the Paul and Jill Ruddock Senior Curator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the incredibly knowledgeable tour of crusade-related art at the Cloisters. In this week's podcast, Aurora Pfefferkorn asks Dr. Boehm about two major artworks at the Cloisters with links to the crusades and to crusader Jerusalem. Aurora asked Dr. Boehm about tomb of Jean d'Alluye with its mysterious eastern sword and a cross reliquary with a special "Outremer" design. As they inspect, describe, and discuss these objects, the importance of the crusading context comes to the fore. From an art historical perspective, despite all of the warfare and strife, the exchange and creativity of this period, was "something quite remarkable."
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