Medievalists.net » Silk Road http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Genoa: The cog in the new medieval economy http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/18/genoa-the-cog-in-the-new-medieval-economy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/18/genoa-the-cog-in-the-new-medieval-economy/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:07:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60453 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/18/genoa-the-cog-in-the-new-medieval-economy/feed/ 0 Imagining Samarkand: Fruitful Themes in 13th-16th Century Literature on a Silk Road City http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/28/imagining-samarkand-fruitful-themes-in-13th-16th-century-literature-on-a-silk-road-city/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/28/imagining-samarkand-fruitful-themes-in-13th-16th-century-literature-on-a-silk-road-city/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:46:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33284 ... Samarkand was seen as the last great urban Islamic stop.4 Perhaps because of this, the period between the Arab invasion of Samarkand and the Mongol invasion in 1220 fomented many of the mythologies about the city which will feature prominently in this paper.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/28/imagining-samarkand-fruitful-themes-in-13th-16th-century-literature-on-a-silk-road-city/feed/ 0 Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/18/silk-roads-or-steppe-roads-the-silk-roads-in-world-history/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/18/silk-roads-or-steppe-roads-the-silk-roads-in-world-history/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:27:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28018 Modern historiography has not fully appreciated the ecological complexity of the Silk Roads. As a result, it has failed to understand their antiquity, or to grasp their full importance in Eurasian history.

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