Orthodoxy on Sale: The Last Byzantine and the Lost Crusade
Orthodoxy on Sale: The Last Byzantine and the Lost Crusade By Silvia Ronchey Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London,…
Rereading the Crusades: An Introduction
Rereading the Crusades: An Introduction M. Powell, James The International History Review, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Nov., 1995) Abstract The very word ‘crusade’…
“A Vile, Infamous, Diabolical Treaty”: The Franco-Ottoman Alliance of Francis I and the Eclipse of the Christendom Ideal
“A Vile, Infamous, Diabolical Treaty”: The Franco-Ottoman Alliance of Francis I and the Eclipse of the Christendom Ideal Piccirillo, Anthony Carmen (Georgetown University)…
‘Clash of Civilizations’, Crusades, Knights and Ottomans: an Analysis of Christian-Muslim Interaction in the Mediterranean
‘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…
EMBARGO: THE ORIGINS OF AN IDEA AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF A POLICY IN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, ca. 1100 – ca. 1500
EMBARGO: THE ORIGINS OF AN IDEA AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF A POLICY IN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, ca. 1100 – ca. 1500 Stantchev,…
The Rise of Latin Christian Naval Power in the Third Crusade
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
Latins and Franks in Byzantium: Perception and Reality from the Eleventh to the Twelfth Century Kazhdan, Alexander The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium…
The role of castles in the political and military history of the Crusader States and the Levant 1187 to 1380
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
Novgorodian Travelers to the Mediterranean World in the Middle Ages Matsuki, Eizo Studies in the Mediterranean World Past and Present (1988) Abstract “Novgorod…
Civilized Slavs: Social bonds in early medieval Poland
Civilized Slavs: Social bonds in early medieval Poland Samsonowicz, Henryk (Polish Academy of Sciences) Focus on History, No. 4 (2004) Abstract In the…
Italian Renaissance Food-Fashioning or The Triumph of Greens
Conceptions of food in the Renaissance were also still influenced by the humoral-Galenic theory, which said that to keep the different ‘humors’ of the body in balance, a good diet had to be the result of foods balancing the moist/water and the dry/air, the warm/fire and the cold/earth, recalling again the four Aristotelian elements.
The Emergence of the Cult of the Virgin Mary as the Patron Saint of Seafarers
Through the ages, Christian seafarers have had recourse to a number of saints in search of protection against the many perils of the sea.
Some notes on the Portuguese and Frankish pirates during the Mamluk period (872-922AH./1468-1517AD.)
The Portuguese incursion not only posed a serious threat to Mamluk trade but also caused a rise in the cost of protecting that trade.
Cultural Hybridity in the Medieval Mediterranean: A Concept in Search of Evidence?
Cultural Hybridity in the Medieval Mediterranean: A Concept in Search of Evidence? Lecture by Peregrine Horden, professor of medieval history, University of London…
The Secret of Venetian Success: Public-order yet Reputation-based Institutions
The Secret of Venetian Success: Public-order yet Reputation-based Institutions de Lara, Yadira González XIV International Economic History Congress, Session 84, Helsinki, July 21 (2006)…
The Byzantine Background to the First Crusade
Just over nine hundred years ago, Pope Urban II closed a provincial church council at Clermont Ferrand with a rousing call to arms that launched the First Crusade.
From Genealogies to Chronicles: The Power of the Form in Medieval Catalan Historiography
From Genealogies to Chronicles: The Power of the Form in Medieval Catalan Historiography Aurell, Jaume Viator, Vol.36 (2004) Abstract The article compares two historical…
The symbiosis of towns and textiles: urban institutions and the changing fortunes of cloth manufacturing in the Low Countries and England, 1270 – 1570
The symbiosis of towns and textiles: urban institutions and the changing fortunes of cloth manufacturing in the Low Countries and England, 1270 – 1570 Munro,…
The Three Young Men in The Furnace and The Art of Ecphrasis in The Coptic Sermon By Theophilus of Alexandria
The Three Young Men in The Furnace and The Art of Ecphrasis in The Coptic Sermon By Theophilus of Alexandria Polański, Tomasz (Kraków)…
From Egypt to Umbria: Jewish Women and Property in the Medieval Mediterranean
From Egypt to Umbria: Jewish Women and Property in the Medieval Mediterranean Frank, Karen California Italian Studies Journal, 1(1) (2010) Abstract This article compares…
The Black Death and the origins of the ‘Great Divergence’ across Europe, 1300–1600
One important recent theme emerging from the literature on early modern Europe is that some of the key structural and institutional changes that are responsible for the increases in incomes may have taken place rather early, in the late medieval period or in the era of the Black Death.
Venetian Colonialism in the Aegean: Sifnos in the Thirteenth Century
Venetian Colonialism in the Aegean: Sifnos in the Thirteenth Century Mahaira-Odoni, Eleni Center for European Studies Working Paper Series #144 (2007) Abstract This paper explores…
From Egypt to Umbria: Jewish Women and Property in the Medieval Mediterranean
From Egypt to Umbria: Jewish Women and Property in the Medieval Mediterranean Frank, Karen A. (University of California – Santa Barbara) California Italian…
Mediterranean History as Global History – lecture by David Abulafia
Lecture by Professor David Abulafia at the Holberg Prize Symposium 2010. The Symposium was held in honor of Holberg Prize laureate 2010 Natalie…
Marking Water: Piracy and Property in the Pre-Modern West
An examination of maritime theft in the medieval Mediterranean nevertheless presents what I will suggest is a modest case for ‘bringing’ medieval Europe ‘back in’ to the broader enterprise of studying world history.