Shipping, Trade and Crusade in the Medieval Mediterranean

Studies in Honour of John Pryor
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-11832-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gertwagen, Ruthy

Jeffreys, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 An Unpublished Medieval Portolan of the Mediterranean in Minneapolis, 4.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

Über Autor(innen)

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.