Das der krak de chevaliers häufig mit den Templern in Verbindung gebracht wird, ist mir auch schon aufgefallen--nur einen vernünftige grund dazu gibts scheinbar nicht...
Eine gute Quelle zu den Burgen in Outremer ist die zunächst als Diplomarbeit und später als Buch veröffentöichte Arbeit des T.E.Lawrence (besser bekannt als Lawrence von Arabien)
Catalogue of the papers of T.E. Lawrence and A.W. Lawrence, c.1894-1985 University of Oxford, Bodleian Library
A.4.1 Papers relating to Crusader Castles, c.1906-1936
Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. c. 6743, e. 3301
Note: In 1910 T.E. Lawrence submitted his Oxford BA thesis, 'The Influence of the Crusades on European Military Architecture to the end of XIIth Century' (the thesis is kept in the Fellows' Library of Jesus College, Oxford). In 1936, after Lawrence's death, a revised version of this was published as Crusader Castles (Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1936). Some of the research for Lawrence's thesis may have been drawn from notes he made as early as the summer of 1906 when on his first cycling tour of French castles. He returned to France the following two summers when he made further notes and drawings.
Papers relating to Lawrence's study of castles in France and Syria and notes for his BA thesis,
c.1906-36, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6743
Extent: 120 leaves
Including
(fols. 1- 20) an exercise book with pencil notes by T.E. Lawrence on different castles, with two pages written in ink by L.C. Jane (Oxford tutor), n.d.
(fols. 22-79) pencil and ink drawings of different views of fortifications by Lawrence and Cyril
F.C. Beeson (many are copied from M.Viollet-le-Duc, Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Architecture
Française du XIe au XVI Siècle(Paris 1854-68) , including (fols. 22-36) drawings of
Carcassonne, 1906-8, and (fols. 43-7) Coucy, 1906-8
(fols. 80-98) holograph notes for part of Lawrence's thesis , n.d.
(fols. 99-117) galley proofs of Crusader Castles heavily annotated with explanatory notes and correction notes by A.W. Lawrence, 1936