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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gertwagen, Ruth.

Jeffreys, Elizabeth.

Pryor, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shipping--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Shipping.

Navigation--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Navigation.

Crusades.

Mediterranean Region--Commerce--History.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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An unpublished medieval portolan of the Mediterranean in Minneapolis / David Jacoby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.

Notes:

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

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4094-8312-6

1-317-05530-6

1-317-05529-2

1-315-60901-0

1-280-57111-X

9786613600714

1-4094-3754-X

9781315609010

OCLC:

781626378