Lack of food security in the siege of Antioch 1097-1098 and its effects on the marginalized social groups : Tafurs and Eastern Christians as an example

الملخص EN

In the development of their events, the Crusaders' wars are an important example of the extent of overlapping of the political, economic, social, environmental and military conditions in the historical events.

This study pursues the economic effect, in general, and the food effect, in particular, especially on the crusaders' armies and the extent of their effect on the marginal elements in that army, in addition to its reflections on the food demands of the Crusaders' army and the condition related to the Eastern Christians in Antioch and its surroundings, especially as it occurred at the time when a subversive policy had been followed against the countryside of Antioch and its surroundings by the Islamic and the Crusaders' forces.