Nikolas Jaspert – författare

This German-to-English translation of a highly successful book is a clear, approachable, student-friendly introduction to the history of the Crusades.With a long chronological span, from the eleventh to the late fifteenth century, and with a wide geographical coverage of the whole of Europe and some of the Middle East, The Crusades is clear, concise and more wide-ranging than most single-volume works.Taking recent scholarship into account, and using boxes, case studies, marginal directions and chronologies, the book is well laid out and easy to follow, providing a comprehensive overview of the crusade movement for students at all university levels.

This German-to-English translation of a highly successful book is a clear, approachable, student-friendly introduction to the history of the Crusades.With a long chronological span, from the eleventh to the late fifteenth century, and with a wide geographical coverage of the whole of Europe and some of the Middle East, The Crusades is clear, concise and more wide-ranging than most single-volume works.Taking recent scholarship into account, and using boxes, case studies, marginal directions and chronologies, the book is well laid out and easy to follow, providing a comprehensive overview of the crusade movement for students at all university levels.

Modern study of the Hospitallers, of other military-religious orders, and of their activities both in the Mediterranean and in Europe has been deeply influenced by the work of Anthony Luttrell. To mark his 75th birthday in October 2007 twenty-three colleagues from ten different countries have contributed to this volume. The first section focuses on the crusading period in the Holy Land, considering the Hospital in Jerusalem, relations with the Assassins, finances, indulgences, transportation and the careers of the brothers and knights. The second and third sections move to the later Middle Ages, when the Hospitallers had their centre on Rhodes, and military and charitable activities in the East had to be supported with men and money from the West. The papers in the second section consider the Hospitallers on Rhodes, relations between Rhodes and the West and plans for crusades, while the third section includes papers on the Hospitallers in the Iberian Peninsula and in Hungary, the territorial administration of the Order of Montesa in Valencia, a plan to transfer the headquarters of the Teutonic Order from Prussia to Frisia, and a Hospitaller reconsideration of warfare and learning on the eve of the council of Trent. The final paper proposes new definitions and guidelines for future work on the military-religious orders. The authors include both well-known experts and younger scholars who promise to follow in the footsteps of Anthony Luttrell and to continue research into the Hospitallers and their fellow orders, these peculiar European communities avant la lettre.

Modern study of the Hospitallers, of other military-religious orders, and of their activities both in the Mediterranean and in Europe has been deeply influenced by the work of Anthony Luttrell. To mark his 75th birthday in October 2007 twenty-three colleagues from ten different countries have contributed to this volume. The first section focuses on the crusading period in the Holy Land, considering the Hospital in Jerusalem, relations with the Assassins, finances, indulgences, transportation and the careers of the brothers and knights. The second and third sections move to the later Middle Ages, when the Hospitallers had their centre on Rhodes, and military and charitable activities in the East had to be supported with men and money from the West. The papers in the second section consider the Hospitallers on Rhodes, relations between Rhodes and the West and plans for crusades, while the third section includes papers on the Hospitallers in the Iberian Peninsula and in Hungary, the territorial administration of the Order of Montesa in Valencia, a plan to transfer the headquarters of the Teutonic Order from Prussia to Frisia, and a Hospitaller reconsideration of warfare and learning on the eve of the council of Trent. The final paper proposes new definitions and guidelines for future work on the military-religious orders. The authors include both well-known experts and younger scholars who promise to follow in the footsteps of Anthony Luttrell and to continue research into the Hospitallers and their fellow orders, these peculiar European communities avant la lettre.

Modern study of the Hospitallers, of other military-religious orders, and of their activities both in the Mediterranean and in Europe has been deeply influenced by the work of Anthony Luttrell. To mark his 75th birthday in October 2007 twenty-three colleagues from ten different countries have contributed to this volume. The first section focuses on the crusading period in the Holy Land, considering the Hospital in Jerusalem, relations with the Assassins, finances, indulgences, transportation and the careers of the brothers and knights. The second and third sections move to the later Middle Ages, when the Hospitallers had their centre on Rhodes, and military and charitable activities in the East had to be supported with men and money from the West. The papers in the second section consider the Hospitallers on Rhodes, relations between Rhodes and the West and plans for crusades, while the third section includes papers on the Hospitallers in the Iberian Peninsula and in Hungary, the territorial administration of the Order of Montesa in Valencia, a plan to transfer the headquarters of the Teutonic Order from Prussia to Frisia, and a Hospitaller reconsideration of warfare and learning on the eve of the council of Trent. The final paper proposes new definitions and guidelines for future work on the military-religious orders. The authors include both well-known experts and younger scholars who promise to follow in the footsteps of Anthony Luttrell and to continue research into the Hospitallers and their fellow orders, these peculiar European communities avant la lettre.

In diesem Band werden erstmals zwei europäische Großregionen vergleichend in den Blick genommen, so dass neue Sichtweisen auf Grenzen und ihre spezifischen Ausprägungen eröffnet werden. Die paarweise Anordnung der in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge gewährleistet in besonderer Weise den Vergleich und verdeutlicht Affinitäten wie Unterschiede zweier geographisch weit voneinander entfernter Räume. Denn beide Bereiche, die Iberische Halbinsel und Ostmitteleuropa, waren zwar in sich einzig, doch in vielem strukturell ähnlich. Diese Randzonen Europas eignen sich aus drei Gründen besonders für eine komparatistische Untersuchung der Grenzenräume und Grenzüberschreitungen im vormodernen Europa. Zum einen waren sie stärker noch als andere Bereiche durch multi-religiöse und multi-ethnische Gesellschaften geprägt. Hier verdichten sich grundlegende soziale, religiöse und kulturelle Aspekte europäischer Gemeinschaftsordnungen. Zum anderen stießen hier oftmals mit besonderer Schärfe verschiedenartige Kulturen aufeinander. Schließlich und drittens waren diese Räume auch in funktionaler Hinsicht außerordentlich vielgestaltig: Sie dienten als Abgrenzungs- wie auch als Kontakt- und Austauschzonen, als politisch-kulturelle wie auch als kolonisatorische Grenzgebiete, als Militär- und Religionsgrenzen zugleich.

Der Band befasst sich mit den epigraphischen Kulturen der hochmittelalterlichen Kommunen Italiens und deren Verhältnis zu vorangegangenen Inschriftenkulturen der Antike und des Frühmittelalters. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt der Frage nach Kontinuitäten und Brüchen sowie dem Einfluss des antiken epigraphischen Erbes auf die mittelalterliche Inschriftenpraxis der Städte. Die hier versammelten Aufsätze fügen sich in eine Tendenz der jüngeren Mittelalterforschung ein, die stärker als zuvor die materielle, topologische und praxeologische Dimension öffentlich ausgestellter Inschriften fokussiert.

Meer und Mensch – eine andere Geschichte des MittelaltersBauern und Ritter prägen unser Bild vom Mittelalter, und bei der mittelalterlichen Seefahrt denken wir an bauchige Hansekoggen und schnelle Wikingerschiffe. Doch was wussten die Menschen über das Meer selbst, über seine Lebewesen? Welchen Nutzen zogen sie aus seinen Rohstoffen? Der Historiker Nikolas Jaspert schreibt die erste Geschichte des Mittelalters von der Warte des Meeres aus: Er erzählt von Fischerei und Walfang, vom Handel mit eleganter Muschelseide, duftendem Ambra und kaiserlichem Purpur. Vor allem aber handelt sein Buch von den Schätzen des Meeres, von ihrer atemberaubenden Schönheit und Vielfalt.Indem Jaspert zum ersten Mal eine ganze Epoche der Menschheitsgeschichte anhand der Lebewesen und Stoffe des Meeres beschreibt, führt er uns eindringlich vor Augen, dass unser Überleben als Spezies nicht zuletzt von diesem Ökosystem abhängt.