Abstract
The First Crusade (1095–1099) culminated in the establishment of four Latin Christian polities in the Levant and Upper Mesopotamia. For the ensuing two centuries, a relatively small Latin population ruled over and lived amongst the religiously and ethnically heterogeneous populations of the Levant. In this time, the Latins also produced a particularly extensive and rich body of laws and legal texts, the study of which provides a window into the nature and quality of their relationship with their Levantine subjects. This article specifically analyses cross-cultural relationships in the early Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. It does so through an analysis of the harsh treatment of Levantine groups in one early legal text which has been relatively neglected by crusades historians: the Canons of the Council of Nablus, 1120.
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