Ruthy Gertwagen

Shipping, Trade and Crusade in the Medieval Mediterranean

Studies in Honour of John Pryor
Herausgeber: Jeffreys, Elizabeth

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Produktbeschreibung

The cutting-edge papers in this collection reflect the wide areas to which John Pryor has made significant contributions in the course of his scholarly career. They are written by some of the world's most distinguished practitioners in the fields of Crusading history and the maritime history of the medieval Mediterranean. His colleagues, students and friends discuss questions including ship construction in the fourth and fifteenth centuries, navigation and harbourage in the eastern Mediterranean, trade in Fatimid Egypt and along the Iberian Peninsula, military and social issues arising among the crusaders during field campaigns, and wider aspects of medieval warfare. All those with an interest in any of these subjects, whether students or specialists, will need to consult this book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9781138118324
• ISBN-10: 113811832X
• Artikelnr.: 57053393

Autorenporträt

Dr Ruthy Gertwagen is Senior Lecturer, Byzantine and Modern Hellenic Studies, Haifa University, Israel. Elizabeth Jeffreys is Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature Emerita, University of Oxford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
John Pryor: A Tribute
Ruthy Gertwagen and Elizabeth Jeffreys
The Publications of John Pryor
Part I: Shipping
1. Prolegomena to a World History of Harbour and River Chains
2. The Socio-economic Implications for Ship Construction: Evidence from Underwater Archaeology and the Codex Theodosianus
3. An Unpublished Medieval Portolan of the Mediterranean in Minneapolis
4. Difficult Sources: Crusader Art and the Depiction of Ships
5. Les vices et la criminalité des marins vénitiens à bord des navires voyageant vers la Mer Noire
XIVe-XVe siècles
6. Byzantine Shipbuilding in Fifteenth-century Venetian Crete: War Galleys and the Link to the Arsenal in Venice
Part II: Trade
7. A Mediterranean Encounter: The Fatimids and Europe
Tenth to Twelfth Centuries
8. Local Trade Networks in Medieval Sicily: The Evidence of Idrisi
9. Aspects of Intercoastal Trade in the Western Mediterranean: The Voyage of the Santa María de Natzare
10. Brevi note su Pera genovese a metà del XIV secolo
11. Genoa and Barcelona: Two Hypotheses for a "Global" World
Part III: Crusade
12. The Crusader March from Dorylaion to Herakleia
4 July-ca. 2 September 1097
13. Sex
Death and the Problem of Single Women in the Armies of the First Crusade
14. Caffaro
Crusade
and the Annales Januensis: History and its Uses in Twelfth-century Genoa
15. Mercenaries and Capuchins in Southern France in the Late Twelfth Century
16. Triumph Re-imagined: The Golden Gate and Popular Memory in Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople
17. The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade
18. The Importance of Greeks in Latin Thought: The Evidence of Roger Bacon
19. The Roles of Hospitaller and Templar Sergeants
20. Buondelmonti and the Holy War
Index