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.
Culpability and Concealed Motives: An Analysis of the Parties Involved in the Diversion of the Fourth Crusade
November 20, 2011 By
The rise and decline of a great power: Venice 1250-1650
October 23, 2011 By
The rise and decline of a great power: Venice 1250-1650 Pezzolo, Luciano (University of Venice) Working Papers, Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, No. 27/WP/2006 Abstract This essay outlines the rise and decline of the most powerful Italian republican state between the middle ages and the early modern period. It moreover seeks to […]
The State as an Enforcer in Early Venetian Trade: a Historical Institutional Analysis
October 9, 2011 By
The State as an Enforcer in Early Venetian Trade: a Historical Institutional Analysis González de Lara, Yadira (Dep. of Economic Analysis. University of Alicante) Paper given at the Fifth World Congress of Cliometrics - Venice International University • Venice, Italy July 8-11, (2004) latest version: April 13, (2005) Abstract Venice commercial rise hinged on her ability to do business with borrowed […]
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 […]
Madonna Bellina, ‘astounding’ Jewish musician in mid-sixteenth-century Venice
September 7, 2011 By
Madonna Bellina, ‘astounding’ Jewish musician in mid-sixteenth-century Venice Harran, Don Renaissance Studies Vol. 22 No. 1(2007) Abstract Around 1550, the Venetian playwright and satirist Andrea Calmo (d. 1571) wrote a love letter to a certain Madonna Bellina, a Jewess, commending her for her skills as singer and instrumentalist. There were doubtless other Jewish women who […]
The Revolt of St Tito in Fourteenth-Century Venetian Crete: A Reassessment
August 28, 2011 By
The Revolt of St Tito in Fourteenth-Century Venetian Crete: A Reassessment By Sally McKee Mediterranean Historical Review, Vol.9 (1995) Introduction: In the summer of 1363, a rebellion broke out in the Venetian colony of Crete. The Revolt of St Tito, as the insurrection came to be called, differed from previous revolts on the island, in […]
A Medieval Gateway to Feminist Education: Christine de Pizan’s Subversive Revision of Boccaccio
August 17, 2011 By
A Medieval Gateway to Feminist Education: Christine de Pizan’s Subversive Revision of Boccaccio Kivilcim Yavuz (İSTANBUL BİLGİ UNIVERSITY, TURKEY) Paper given at 2nd INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ CONFERENCE, BASKENT UNIVERSITY, 27-29 MARCH (2002) Abstract The Zenobia figure is the mainstay of the defence of women’s education in the transition period from the medieval to the modern. […]
Privilege and Duty in the Serene Republic: Illuminated Manuscripts of Renaissance Venice
August 15, 2011 By
Helena Szépe of the University of South Florida is currently researching illustrations found in Venetian medieval and Renaissance documents. With the assistance of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Professor Szépe is now preparing a book entitled Privilege and Duty in the Serene Republic: Illuminated Manuscripts of Renaissance Venice. “While researching my dissertation on […]
The Byzantines and Saladin, 1185-1192: Opponents of the Third Crusade
July 26, 2011 By
The Byzantines and Saladin, 1185-1192: Opponents of the Third Crusade Brand, Charles M. Speculum, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Apr., 1962) Abstract On the eve of the Third Crusade the chief Christian state in the East joined with Saladin, sultan of Egypt and Syria, to further their common interests, which involved opposition to the Latins in the […]
The Venetian Crusade of 1122-1124
July 25, 2011 By
The Venetian Crusade of 1122-1124 By Jonathan Riley-Smith I Comuni Italiani nel Regno Crociato di Gerusalemme / The Italian communes in the Crusading Kingdom of Jerusalem, edited by Gabriella Airaldi and Benjamin Z. Kedar (Genoa, 1986) Introduction: On 8 August 1122 a large fleet left Venice for the East. The Venetians, who had taken the […]
The Debate on the Fourth Crusade
July 22, 2011 By
The Debate on the Fourth Crusade Harris, Jonathan History Compass, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2004) Abstract This article examines attempts over the past two hundred years to account for the diversion of the Fourth Crusade to Constantinople and its sack of the city in 1204. While nineteenth-century scholars dreamed up far-fetched conspiracy theories, their successors […]
The Secret Of Venetian Success: The Role Of The State In Financial Markets
May 22, 2011 By
The Secret Of Venetian Success: The Role Of The State In Financial Markets González de Lara, Yadira (Universidad de Alicante, Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económic) Editor: Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A., Universidad de Alicante, September (2005) Abstract The commercial success of Venice hinged on her merchants’ ability to do business with borrowed money. However, to […]
Preparations for War in Florence and Venice in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century
April 5, 2011 By
Preparations for War in Florence and Venice in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century By Michael Mallett Florence and Venice: Comparisons and Relations. Acts of two Conferences at Villa I Tatti in 1976 and 1977, organized by S. Bertelli, N. Rubinstein, and C.H. Smyth (Florence, 1979-80) Introduction: In a famous passage of the Discorsi, […]
Venetian Art and the War of the League of Cambrai (1509-17)
March 22, 2011 By
Venetian Art and the War of the League of Cambrai (1509-17) By Krystina Stermole PhD Dissertation, Queen’s University, 2007 Abstract: This dissertation explores how Venetians used the figurative arts as a means of responding to and shaping their experience of the War of the League of Cambrai (1509–17). The war was the most politically and […]
Torquemada, the Inquisition, And the Expulsion of the Jews
March 21, 2011 By
Torquemada, the Inquisition, And the Expulsion of the Jews Rush, Timothy EIR Strategic Studies, April 1 (2005) Abstract The essential conflict between Europe and Islam must be seen in the context of the earlier alliance between Charle- magne and the Baghdad Caliphate’s Haroun el-Rashid. The origin of the conflict is essentially traced to the period approximately […]
The Secret of Venetian Success: Public-order yet Reputation-based Institutions
March 20, 2011 By
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) Abstract This paper examines the institutional foundations of the financial market underpinning Venice’s commercial success during the late-medieval period. A public-order, reputation-based institution enabled merchants to commit not to (i) flee with the […]
Venice: An Eastern City in the West
March 1, 2011 By
Venice had always seen itself as an Eastern city rather than a Western city. The art, architecture and religious customs of medieval and Renaissance Venice all reflect this self-perception
Venetian Colonialism in the Aegean: Sifnos in the Thirteenth Century
December 20, 2010 By
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 the little-known beginning of Venetian rule of Sifnos, one of the Greek Aegean islands presumably apportioned to Venice following the Fourth Crusade in 1204. Where- as historians have traced the non-Venetian dynasts […]
The Songs of the Gondolas: Venice and its Lagoon
April 17, 2010 By
The beauty of Venice is unrivalled. Cruising along the canals, the passing buildings reveal stories of the past.
The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript
September 18, 2009 By
Looking at a book written by a 15th century Venetian mariner
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