Jonathan Phillips sees one of the most notorious events in European history as a typical ‘clash of cultures’
Culpability and Concealed Motives: An Analysis of the Parties Involved in the Diversion of the Fourth Crusade
November 20, 2011 By
This article is in direct contrast to an earlier one by Joseph Gill, in which he utilizes primary sources in an attempt to establish Pope Innocent III’s lack of responsibility in the outcome of the Crusade.
HASKINS CONFERENCE: Anonymous Vaticanus: Another Source for the Normans in the South?
November 10, 2011 By
This paper focused on sources detailing the Norman Conquest of Sicily.
Byzantine Jewellery? Amethyst Beads in East and West during the Early Byzantine Period
September 25, 2011 By
Byzantine Jewellery? Amethyst Beads in East and West during the Early Byzantine Period Drauschke, Jörg “Intelligible Beauty”: Recent Research on Byzantine Jewellery, (London, 2010) Abstract Precious stones are an integral part of Byzantine jewellery throughout the life of Byzantine culture. This contribution focuses on the time-span between the 5th and the 7th centuries; thus a snapshot from […]
Image of the other as a tool of political legitimation: image of Venice in Renaissance Ragusa
September 11, 2011 By
Image of the other as a tool of political legitimation: image of Venice in Renaissance Ragusa Kuncevic, Lovro (Central European University; Institute for Historical Sciences of Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Ragusa)) Conference: Topics, Theories, and Methods in the History of Politics beyond Great Events and Great Men, Central European University (2007) Abstract My goal in this […]
Byzantine women´s visibility in the arts
September 3, 2011 By
Byzantine women´s visibility in the arts Piltz, Elisabeth (Uppsala University, Sweden) 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London (2006): Communication (II.5 Secular Space) Abstract The role and status of women in Byzantium is related to the genus theory of women in medieval societies. Several scholars have already dealt with this problem. Angeliki Laiou has written about […]
Fama et Memoria: Portraits of Female Patrons in Mosaic Pavements of Churches in Byzantine Palestine and Arabia
September 2, 2011 By
Fama et Memoria: Portraits of Female Patrons in Mosaic Pavements of Churches in ByzantinePalestine and Arabia Britt, Karen C. Medieval Feminist Forum, 44, no. 2 (2008) Abstract When we think of portraits that memorialize the contributions of female donors to the construction and adornment of Byzantine churches, or to support their liturgical functions, the images that […]
The Persistence of Late Antiquity: Christ as Man and Woman in an Eighth-Century Miniature
September 1, 2011 By
The Persistence of Late Antiquity: Christ as Man and Woman in an Eighth-Century Miniature Lifshitz, Felice Medieval Feminist Forum, 38, no. 1 (2004) Abstract This brief essay. originally delivered as part of an SMFS panel at Kalamazoo, forms part ofa larger project to reconstruct the intellectual culture of the eighth-century Main Valley, with a particular focus […]
Transparency, Contract Selection and the Maritime Trade of Venetian Crete, 1303-1351
August 28, 2011 By
Transparency, Contract Selection and the Maritime Trade of Venetian Crete, 1303-1351 Williamson, Dean V. US Department of Justice, July (2001) Abstract The paper explores how merchants enabled long-distance trade in the Mediterranean before and after the Black Death. The Black Death disrupted the flows of information about commercial prospects upon which merchants depended for deciding when, […]
Castle of Intellect, Castle of Force: The Worlds of Alfonso the Learned and James the Conqueror
August 4, 2011 By
Castle of Intellect, Castle of Force: The Worlds of Alfonso the Learned and James the Conqueror BURNS, S.J., ROBERT I. THE LIBRARY OF IBERIAN RESOURCES ONLINE The Worlds of Alfonso the Learned and James the Conqueror Princeton (1986) Abstract King alfonso and King James were born into a world of stunning change. Each was to accelerate […]
The war against Islam and the Muslims at home: the Mudejar predicament in the Kingdom of Valencia during the reign of Fernando «El Católico»
August 3, 2011 By
The war against Islam and the Muslims at home: the Mudejar predicament in the Kingdom of Valencia during the reign of Fernando «El Católico» Meyerson, Mark D. Sharq Al-Andalus, No.3 (1986) Abstract Fernando’s ¡nternal policy of fostering the communities of Muslims, or Mudejars, in the territories of his own Crown of Aragón seems at odds […]
Genoese trade networks in the southern Iberian peninsula: trade, transmission of technical knowledge and economic interactions
August 1, 2011 By
Genoese trade networks in the southern Iberian peninsula: trade, transmission of technical knowledgeand economic interactions Porras, Alberto Garcıa and Garcıa, Adela Fabregas (Departamento de Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Te ́cnicas Historiogra ́ficas, Universidad de Granada, Spain) Mediterranean Historical Review, Vol. 25, No. 1, June (2010) Abstract This paper presents the results of a research project undertaken at the […]
Piracy as Statecraft: The Mediterranean Policies of the Fifth/Eleventh-Century Taifa of Denia
August 1, 2011 By
Piracy as Statecraft: The Mediterranean Policies of the Fifth/Eleventh-Century Taifa of Denia Bruce, Travis Al-Masa ̄q, Vol. 22, No. 3, December (2010) Abstract The taifa of Denia on the Iberian eastern seaboard was one of the most dynamic of the regional polities that emerged from the disintegrated Cordovan caliphate. Muja ̄hid al-‘A ̄mir ̄ı based his […]
The Means of Agricultural Production: Muscle and Tools
July 31, 2011 By
The Means of Agricultural Production: Muscle and Tools Bryer, Anthony The Economic History of Byzantium: From the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Washington,D.C. (2002) Abstract The principal means of Byzantine production was the muscle of its peasants. The Byzantine state, its administration, defense, even patronage of its arts, eventually depended upon […]
Orthodoxy on Sale: The Last Byzantine and the Lost Crusade
July 28, 2011 By
Orthodoxy on Sale: The Last Byzantine and the Lost Crusade By Silvia Ronchey Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London, 21–26 August (2006) Introduction: In July of 1460 a Venetian galley departed Porto Longo close to Pylos, and slowly tacked its way up the western coast of the Peloponnese. The galley had aboard […]
‘Clash of Civilizations’, Crusades, Knights and Ottomans: an Analysis of Christian-Muslim Interaction in the Mediterranean
July 26, 2011 By
‘Clash of Civilizations’, Crusades, Knights and Ottomans: an Analysis of Christian-Muslim Interaction in the Mediterranean Buttigieg,Emanuel (University of Malta) Religion and power in Europe : Conflict and Convergence, Pisa University Press, (2007) Abstract In a world that has become so powerfully gripped by a possible escalation of a ‘clash of civilizations’ that could spiral out […]
The Rise of Latin Christian Naval Power in the Third Crusade
July 21, 2011 By
The international conflict in the late twelfth century known as the Third Crusade usually holds a somewhat inconclusive place in medieval history, at least when one looks only at the results on land
Latins and Franks in Byzantium: Perception and Reality from the Eleventh to the Twelfth Century
July 20, 2011 By
Latins and Franks in Byzantium: Perception and Reality from the Eleventh to the Twelfth Century Kazhdan, Alexander The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Washington, D.C. (2001) Abstract When scholars write about relations between the West and Byzantium in the Middle Ages, they naturally emphasize the contrasts […]
The role of castles in the political and military history of the Crusader States and the Levant 1187 to 1380
July 18, 2011 By
This thesis deals with the various functions of Latin and Armenian fortifications in Cilician Armenia, Greece, Cyprus, Syria and Palestine between 1187 and c.1380.
Novgorodian Travelers to the Mediterranean World in the Middle Ages
July 17, 2011 By
Novgorodian Travelers to the Mediterranean World in the Middle Ages Matsuki, Eizo Studies in the Mediterranean World Past and Present (1988) Abstract “Novgorod the Great,” a unique republic city state in the 12th-15th centuries, was situated at the Northwest corner of the Russian plain, not far from the Baltic Sea. It was on the northern […]
Civilized Slavs: Social bonds in early medieval Poland
July 5, 2011 By
Civilized Slavs: Social bonds in early medieval Poland Samsonowicz, Henryk (Polish Academy of Sciences) Focus on History, No. 4 (2004) Abstract In the 9th-11th centuries, Poland was characterized by a process whereby Slavic society was adapted into a civilization founded on Mediterranean culture, resulting in the emergence of a new, open society. Two kinds of social […]
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