42. B.A. THESIS,
THE INFLUENCE OF THE CRUSADES ON EUROPEAN MILITARY ARCHITECTURE - TO THE END OF THE XIIth
CENTURY
(not illustrated)
By T. E. Lawrence, 1910
This is the copy of Lawrence's undergraduate thesis submitted to the Examiners in March
1910. For a time, Lawrence intended to enlarge the thesis and have it published as a book;
with this in mind he began to make extensive marginal annotations. It was found, however,
that the cost of reproducing all his maps and illustrations would be prohibitive.
The thesis was published in a limited edition in 1936 under the title Crusader
Castles. In 1988 a new edition, edited by Denys Pringle, was published by Oxford
University Press.
Lawrence's second typed copy of the thesis, which also has marginal annotations, is now
at the Houghton Library, Harvard.
Principal and Fellows, Jesus College, Oxford
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