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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462126303321

Titolo

Shipping, trade and crusade in the medieval Mediterranean : studies in honour of John Pryor / / edited by Ruthy Gertwagen and Elizabeth Jeffreys

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-05530-6

1-317-05529-2

1-315-60901-0

1-280-57111-X

9786613600714

1-4094-3754-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (444 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GertwagenRuth

JeffreysElizabeth

PryorJohn

Disciplina

387.50918220902

Soggetti

Shipping - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500

Navigation - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500

Crusades

Electronic books.

Mediterranean Region Commerce History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prolegomena to a world history of the harbour and river chain / Benjamin Z. Kedar -- The socio-economic implications for ship construction : evidence from underwater archaeology and the Codex Theodosianus / Hadas Mor -- An unpublished medieval portolan of the Mediterranean in Minneapolis / David Jacoby -- Difficult sources : crusader art and the depiction of ships / Richard W. Unger -- Les vices et la criminalité des marins vénitiens à bord des navires vers la Mer Noire, XIVe-XVe siècles / Sergei Karpov -- Byzantine shipbuilding in fifteenth-century Venetian Crete : war galleys and the link to the



Arsenal in Venice / Ruthy Gertwagen -- A Mediterranean encounter : the Fatimids and Europe, tenth to twelfth centuries / Yaacov Lev -- Local trade networks in medieval Sicily : the evidence of Idrisi / David Abulafia -- Aspects of intercoastal trade in the western Mediterranean : the voyage of the Santa María de Natzare / Lawrence V. Mott -- Brevi note su Pera genovese a metà del xiv secolo / Laura Balletto -- Genoa and Barcelona : two hypotheses for a "global" world / Gabriella Airaldi -- The crusader march from Dorylaion to Herakleia, 4 July-ca. 2 september 1097 / Bernard S. Bachrach -- Sex, death and the problem of single women in the armies of the First Crusade / Alan V. Murray -- Caffaro, Crusade, and the Annales Januensis : history and its uses in twelfth-century Genoa / John Dotson -- Mercenaries and Capuchins in southern France in the late twelfth century / John France -- Memory and the diversion of the Fourth Crusade / Thomas F. Madden -- The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade / Mark Gregory Pegg -- The importance of Greeks in Latin thought : the evidence of Roger Bacon / Amanda Power -- The roles of hospitaller and templar sergeants / Jonathan Riley-Smith -- Buondelmonti and the Holy War / Michel Balard.

Sommario/riassunto

The cutting-edge papers in this collection come from some of the most distinguished practitioners world-wide in the fields of Crusading history and the maritime history of the medieval Mediterranean. Issues covered include ship construction, navigation and harbourage issues in the eastern Mediterranean, trade in Fatimid Egypt and along the Iberian peninsula, military and social issues arising during Crusade field campaigns, and much more.