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Figure 6: Map of Gibelet according to Ernest Renan413
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a book entitled, Byblos, son histoire, ses ruins, ses legendes, (Beirut, 1963), in which he briefly
refers to the medieval remains of Gibelet. Although, no excavations were carried out in the
medieval town itself, at the beginning of the twentieth century Camille Enlart wrote about Gibelet
and its churches in Les monuments des croises dans le royaume de Jerusalem. In particular,
Enlart discussed the cathedral church of St John the Baptist. 414 Paul Deschamps wrote about the
castle of Gibelet in his monumental series Les Chateaux des croises en Terre Sainte compiled in
the 1970s. Deschamps also provided historical background to his descriptions and a general
discussion of the shape of the town. This study is probably the most detailed account available
thus far. 415 Finally another short description of the castle of Gibelet is included in an article by
Thomas Boase `Architecture and Sculpture. '416
Unfortunately, Gibelet was not included in Denys Pringle's recent publication, The
Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Pringle does mention, however, the existence
413 Ernst Renan, Mission de Phenicie, Atlas, pl. 19.
414 Camille Enlart, pp. 116-124.
415 Paul Deschamps, pp. 203-215.
416 Thomas S. R Boase, `Architecture and Sculpture', in Kenneth M. Setton (ed. ), A History of the
Crusades, vol. 4 edited by H. W. Hazard (London 1977), pp. 144-5.
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