Crusading and trading between West and East : studies in honour of David Jacoby / edited by Sophia Menache, Benjamin Z. Kedar and Michel Balard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Menache, Sophia, editor.

Ḳedar, B. Z., editor.

Balard, Michel, editor.

Jacoby, David, 1928- honouree.

Series:

Crusades. Subsidia

Crusades - Subsidia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jacoby, David, 1928-.

Jacoby, David.

East and West.

History.

Commerce.

Relations.

Mediterranean Region--History--476-1517.

Mediterranean Region.

Mediterranean Region--Relations.

Mediterranean Region--Commerce--History.

East and West--History--To 1500.

Crusades--13th-15th centuries.

Crusades.

International relations.

Genre:

History.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 368 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"For almost sixty years Professor David Jacoby devoted his research to the economic, social and cultural history of the Eastern Mediterranean and this new collection reflects his impact on the study of the interactions between the Italian city-states, Byzantium, the Latin East and the realm of Islam. Contributors to this volume are prominent scholars from across Medieval Studies and leading historians of the younger generation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1:The Crusades and the Latin East. The use of paper in the Frankish Levant : a comparative study / Benjamin Z. Kedar

Thomas Morosini, first Latin patriarch of Constantinople (1205-1211) : a re-appraisal / Michael Angolo

Eine Bleibulle Tankreds von Antiochia? / Hans Eberhard Mayer

The Lyon Eructes revisited / Peter Edbury

Richard of Cornwall's treaty with Egypt, 1241 / Rabel G. Khamisy, Denys Pringle

The redemption of Philip of Courtenay, heir of the empire of Romania (1259) / Guillaume Saint-Guillain

Une phase décisive d'intenses tractations diplomatiques entre sultanat mamiûk et puissances occidentales (couronne d'Aragon, républiques de Gênes et de Venise) 687/1288-692/1293 113 / Damien Coulon

The architectural language of the Hospitaller Church of St John, Acre, and its historical context / Vardit Shotten-Hallel

New documents on Genoese Famagusta / Michel Balard

The Latin will of a Jewish Burgensis of Rhodes, 1448 / Karl Borchardt, Anthony Luttrell

Part II: Venice and the Byzantine world. Les derniers sceaux de plomb des commerciaires byzantins / Jean-Claude Cheynet

Venice: money for the salvation of one's soul and the solace of one's subjects: the donation made by Pietro II Orseolo in 1007 / Gherardo Ortalli

Kaviar am Hochzeitsbankett : Die Vermählung der Agnes-Anna von Frankreich mit Alexios II. Komnenos (1180) und das Prodromos-Petra-Kloster in Konstantinopel / Peter Schreiner

In the heart of Asia : Marco Polo, from Venice to Tibet / Thomas Tañase

Remarks on the settlement of peasants from Patmos in Venetian Crete / Chryssa Maltezou

Independent women in Candia's Giudecca : the testaments of the two Fleas / Benjamin Arbel

Part III: Medieval trade. North-South, not just East-West : An understated nexus of Byzantium before and during the crusading era? / Jonathan Shepard

What is a ciguda/cigutal On the Venetian navigation in the Azov Sea in the fourteenth-fifteenth centuries / Sergei E Karpov

“Gold of Cyprus” and other gold threads in late medieval England, 1300-1450 / Lisa Monnas

Sabatino Russo, a Jewish merchant of Lecce : challenges of transregional interfaith joint ventures around 1400 / Georg Christ

Part IV: Silk. Medieval silk textiles from excavations in the land of Israel / Orit Shamir And Alisa Baginski

Silk from the sea : byssos, saf, sea wool / Anthony Cutler

Sendal-cendal-zendado, a category of silk cloth in the development of the silk industry in Italy (twelfth-fifteenth centuries) / Sophie Desrosiers

Where the silk road met the wool trade : Venetian and Muslim merchants in Tana in the late Middle Ages / Alan M. Stahl.%

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138308046

1138308048

OCLC:

1056201052