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Genoa: The cog in the new medieval economy

Medievalists.net — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:07:59 +0000

Journalist and author Nicholas Walton writes about medieval Genoa's economy, trade and role in the Black Death. Walton recently published a book on Genoese history entitled, "Genoa: La Superba"

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Mapping a New View of the Medieval World

Medievalists.net — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 13:10:25 +0000

Maps do more than show us the way and identify major landmarks – rivers, towns, roads and hills. For centuries, they also offered a perspective on how societies viewed themselves in comparison to the rest of the world.

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Charlemagne’s Denarius, Constantine’s Edicule, and the Vera Crux

Medievalists.net — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:46:53 +0000

In 806 a much-discussed silver denarius bearing the likeness of Charlemagne was issued. This is called the “temple-type” coin due to the (as yet unidentified) architectural structure illustrated on the reverse side, and which is explicitly labeled as representing the epitome of “Christian Religion.”

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A Created Enemy: ‘Barbarians’ in spite of Religious Conversion. Visigoths and Byzantines in 6th-Century Iberia

Medievalists.net — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:05:25 +0000

This study approaches the concept of resistance as a tool for historical analysis during Roman Late Antiquity, especially with respect to the identity construction and the creation of physical or mental borders between Byzantines and Barbarians.

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Real and imaginary journeys in the later Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:18:16 +0000

For a proper understanding of the actions of men in the past it is necessary to have some idea of how they conceived the world and their place in it, yet for the medieval period there is a serious inbalance in the sources.

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Venetian Trading Networks in the Medieval Mediterranean

Medievalists.net — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:57:23 +0000

To understand the system of business relations within the commercial network of the Republic of Venice, this article adopts a network analysis that differs from a standard narrative based on a privileged subset of actors or relations. It allows us to examine the socially mixed group of entrepreneurs, brokers, and shippers at the heart of Venice’s economic system.

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Two Rabbinic Views of Christianity in the Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 01:17:50 +0000

In the sessions of our section over the past decade, I introduced a significant distinction between two rabbinic attitudes in the Mediterranean countries during the Middle Ages of 12th and 13th centuries as to their view of Christianity.

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The Red Sea and the Port of Clysma. A Possible Gate of Justinian’s Plague

Medievalists.net — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:12:31 +0000

The aim of this study is to present the sea and land commercial routes of the Byzantine Egypt and their role in the dissemination of the plague bacteria Yersinia pestis from the Red Sea to Mediterranean ports. The Mediterranean port of Pelusium was considered as the starting point of the first plague pandemic...

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10th century find points to medieval sea routes around Ibiza

Medievalists.net — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 18:40:42 +0000

A bronze candelabra discovered by a diver in Ibiza in the 1970s is offering clues to the maritime history of this region.

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Maurice, Son of Theodoric: Welsh Kings and the Mediterranean World AD 550-650

Medievalists.net — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 20:38:24 +0000

Among the many petty rulers of early medieval Wales was a king whose name can be rendered Maurice, son of Theodoric.

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