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- Crusader castle (12th-13th centuries)
- Introduction to the castle
- The first Hospitaller castle (12th century)
- Strengthening of the fortifications in the 13th century
- Final construction phase
- The great Gothic hall
- The Mamluk castle (13th-14th centuries)
- Baybars' siege of 1271
- The Krak des Chevaliers under the Mamluks
- The Mamluk refortification
- Baybars’ alterations
- Sultan Qalawun’s tower
- Changes to the entrance system
- The hammam
- Residential and religious alterations
- Daily life in the castle
- Castle life and the monastic rule
- Common dormitory
- Early unitary spaces
- Hierarchical living spaces
- Latrine tower
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- Chapels decorated with frescoes
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- Paul Deschamps: inventor of the Krak
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