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.
Saint Gildas and the Pestilent Dragon: A Meander through the Sixth-Century Landscape With a Most Notable Guru
The historical value of the pilgrimage episode in the Life of Gildas by the Monk of Ruys is defended by advancing solutions to the problems of composition-dating, integrity of tradition, motivation, and the appearance of a dragon. An approach is taken to delimiting the date of the pilgrimage in light of the Yellow Death pandemic and the geopolitics of the contemporary Mediterranean world.