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AMMAN — In mediaeval warfare, sieges of fortified cities were conducted in accordance with rules taken from five verses in the book of Deuteronomy, according to Thomas Brosset from Lancaster University, specifying that when a fortress was stormed, some tacit norms of war conduct existed.Violence towards the inhabitants was allowed if the city’s population continued to resist,

AMMAN — Settlements in the Levant during Mediaeval times were a mixture of ethnicities, cultures and religions, noted a French historian and PhD candidate at Lancaster University, whose studies the conflict and life besieged people in Jazira and Bilad Al Sham from 1097 to 1192.“Frankish or Turkish commanders were mostly a ruling minority. Consequently, for besieged commanders,