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Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes
Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries)
Inbunden, 2019
1948 kr
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Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) focuses on the perceptions of geopolitical and cultural change, which was triggered by the arrival of Turkish Muslim groups into the territories of the Byzantine Empire at the end of …
Negotiating Cultures
Bilingual Surrender Treaties in Muslim-Crusader Spain under James the Conqueror
Av Robert I. Burns, S.J., Paul E. Chevedden
Inbunden, 1999
2852 kr
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James I "the Conqueror", king of Arago-Catalonia, conquered Mediterranean Spain from Islam during fifty crusading years (1225-1276). From his many surrender treaties, only two survive in their interlinear bilingual originals, both presented here. Each reflects the fragmentation of post-Almohad …
Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West
Essays in Honour of Donald A. Bullough
Inbunden, 2000
3050 kr
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This illustrated book is a coherently conceived collection of interdisciplinary essays by distinguished authors on the city of Rome and its contacts with western Christendom in the early Middle Ages (c. 500-1000 AD). The first part integrates historical, archaeological, numismatic and art …
Pope Innocent III (1160/61 - 1216)
To Root Up and to Plant
Inbunden, 2003
2894 kr
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This book is a biography of Pope Innocent III. Avoiding the many scholarly controversies concerning the pope, it offers a concise and balanced portrait of the man and his pontificate. Its chronological organization-unusual in biographies of Innocent-enables the reader to see how the pope was …
Jews, Muslims and Christians In and Around the Crown of Aragon
Essays in Honour of Professor Elena Lourie
Av Harvey Hames
Inbunden, 2003
3117 kr
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This volume, in honour of Professor Elena Lourie, focuses on various areas of interaction between Jews, Muslims and Christians in the late medieval Crown of Aragon and its environs. The articles deal with topics such as war, military campaigns, government, politics, and economics, relations between …
Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society
Av Michael Winter, Amalia Levanoni
Inbunden, 2003
3479 kr
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This volume consists of 19 studies by leading historians of the Mamluks. Drawing on primary Arabic sources, the studies discuss central political, military, urban, social, administrative, economic, financial and religious aspects of the Mamluk Empire that was established in 1250 by Mamluks …
Reading Michael Psellos
Av Charles Barber, David Jenkins
Inbunden, 2006
2833 kr
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The papers of this volume originated in a workshop held at the University of Notre Dame in February 2004 to discuss the variety of ways one might read Michael Psellos (1018-after 1081?). One of most original figures of Byzantine intellectual history, Psellos was a polymath whose range extended from …
Age of the ΔΡΟΜΩΝ
The Byzantine Navy ca 500-1204
Av John Pryor, Elizabeth M. Jeffreys
Inbunden, 2006
3693 kr
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This volume examines the development and evolution of the war galley known as the Dromon, and its relative, the Chelandion, from first appearance in the sixth century until its supercession in the twelfth century by the Galea developed in the Latin West. Beginning as a small, fully-decked, monoreme …
Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal
King Manuel I and the End of Religious Tolerance (1496-7)
Inbunden, 2007
2539 kr
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In 1496-7, King Manuel I of Portugal forced the Jews of his kingdom to convert to Christianity and expelled all his Muslim subjects. Portugal was the first kingdom of the Iberian Peninsula to end definitively Christian-Jewish-Muslim coexistence, creating an exclusively Christian realm. Drawing upon …
Cross, Crescent and Conversion
Studies on Medieval Spain and Christendom in Memory of Richard Fletcher
Av Simon Barton, Peter Linehan
Inbunden, 2007
2563 kr
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This volume is intended as a commemoration of the career of Richard Fletcher and his remarkable contribution to our understanding of the medieval world. The seventeen papers included here, written by some of the leading scholars of this period, reflect the three main areas of Fletcher’s scholarly …
Diplomatics in the Eastern Mediterranean 1000-1500
Aspects of Cross-Cultural Communication
Inbunden, 2008
3210 kr
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In the politically and militarily complex world of the medieval Eastern Mediterranean people and entities of different ethnic, religious and linguistic backgrounds came into close contact at many different levels, from everyday dealings in the marketplace to high diplomacy between competing states, …
Will, Action and Freedom
Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century
Inbunden, 2008
2088 kr
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Such important issues of the modern thought as freedom, will, and action have their roots not only in classical philosophy, but also in early Christian theology. The book aims to fill a gap in our knowledge about the theological roots of the issues mentioned. The author explores Christological …
Naviguer, commercer, gouverner
Économie maritime et pouvoirs à Venise (XVe-XVIe siècles)
Inbunden, 2008
3170 kr
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The convoys of public galleys, the typical form of Venetian medieval sea-faring, had disappeared gradually by the time of the battle of Lepanto. This disappearance was not the sign of a general economic crisis, but was nevertheless the corollary of important political, economic and social changes …
Communities and Crisis
Bologna during the Black Death
Inbunden, 2009
2727 kr
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Bologna is well known for its powerful university and notariate of the thirteenth century, but the fourteenth-century city is less studied. This work redresses the imbalance in scholarship by examining social and economic life at mid-fourteenth century, particularly during the epidemic of plague, …
Domestic Settings
Sources on Domestic Architecture and Day-to-Day Activities in the Crusader States
Av Adrian Boas
Inbunden, 2010
3479 kr
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Whereas a great deal of research has been carried out on Crusader castles, churches and major buildings in the Latin East, almost no attention has been paid to domestic architecture and the domestic settings in which most of the population of the Crusader states spent most of their time. The …
Career and Writings of Demetrius Kydones
A Study of Fourteenth-Century Byzantine Politics, Religion and Society
Av Judith Ryder
Inbunden, 2010
2673 kr
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The second half of the fourteenth century was a period of rapid change in the Eastern Mediterranean, principally due to the expansion into Europe of the Ottoman Turks. Demetrius Kydones was one of the key Byzantine political and intellectual figures of the time, and his writings are regarded as one …
Cronaca di Partenope
An Introduction to and Critical Edition of the First Vernacular History of Naples (c. 1350)
Inbunden, 2011
3277 kr
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Narrating the history of Naples from its foundation in early antiquity to the year 1343, the Cronaca di Partenope was the first chronologically comprehensive history of the city and one of the earliest works of any genre composed in the Neapolitan vernacular. Drawing on earlier-medieval texts and a …
Latin Renovatio of Byzantium
The Empire of Constantinople (1204-1228)
Inbunden, 2011
3969 kr
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In 1204 the army of the Fourth Crusade sacked the great city of Constantinople. In earlier historiography the view prevailed that these Western barons and knights temporarily destroyed the Byzantine state and replaced it with a series of feudal states of their own making. Through a comprehensive …
Chronique d’Ernoul and the Colbert-Fontainebleau Continuation of William of Tyre (Volume 1)
Av Peter Edbury, Massimiliano Gaggero
Inbunden, 2023
2217 kr
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Volume 1 of the two-volume set MMed 135: These volumes offer the first critical edition of the Chronique d’Ernoul and the so-called Colbert-Fontainebleau (or Acre) Continuation of William of Tyre in over 150 years. The material is accompanied by an extensive introduction, glossary and bibliography. …
Philippe de Mézières and His Age
Piety and Politics in the Fourteenth Century
Inbunden, 2011
4471 kr
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Philippe de Mézières (1327-1405) was the quintessential man of all seasons of the fourteenth-century Mediterranean. A scholar, a soldier, a mystic, a man of affairs, a royal adviser and an incessant traveler around the Mediterranean, a prolific writer and an associate of religious orders, a …
Byzantine Religious Culture
Studies in Honor of Alice-Mary Talbot
Inbunden, 2011
4471 kr
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Alice-Mary Talbot has profoundly influenced Byzantine Studies in America and Europe, focusing her scholarship upon the social context of Byzantine religious practices. As Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and as editor of Dumbarton Oaks Papers, she touched the professional lives of …
Trading Conflicts
Venetian Merchants and Mamluk Officials in Late Medieval Alexandria
Inbunden, 2012
3614 kr
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Analysing different conflicts in Late Medieval Alexandria, this book offers new insights into the micro-mechanics of Venetian life and trade in Egypt and recalibrates the narrative of the strictly regulated and often violent contacts between East and West. This thorough microanalysis, based on the …
Southern Italy in the Late Middle Ages
Demographic, Institutional and Economic Change in the Kingdom of Naples, c.1440-c.1530
Inbunden, 2011
4137 kr
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The first full-length study of mainland southern Italy's domestic market in the late Middle Ages, this book discusses the interaction between population, the market, and the region's institutional framework, in the context of the impact of the late medieval 'crisis' on the European economy. Based …
Datini, Majorque et le Maghreb (14e-15e siècles)
Réseaux, espaces méditerranéens et stratégies marchandes
Inbunden, 2013
4902 kr
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This book addresses a question that has been somewhat neglected in the many studies of the mercantile operations of the ‘merchant of Prato’, Francesco di Marco Datini, in the years around 1400: the operations of his firm in the Maghrib, a region in which he and his colleagues had to operate through …
Renaissance Architecture of Power
Princely Palaces in the Italian Quattrocento
Inbunden, 2016
3721 kr
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The growth of princely states in early Renaissance Italy brought a thorough renewal to the old seats of power. One of the most conspicuous outcomes of this process was the building or rebuilding of new court palaces, erected as prestigious residences in accord with the new ‘classical’ principles of …
Honorius III et l'Orient (1216-1227)
Étude et publication de sources inédites des Archives vaticanes (ASV)
Inbunden, 2013
3847 kr
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In Honorius III et l'Orient (1216-1227), Pierre-Vincent Claverie offers a large-scale study of the oriental policy developed by Pope Honorius III at the time of the Fifth Crusade. His book is enriched by 150 unpublished bulls presenting Honorius III as a worthy successor of Innocent III and a …
Montfort
History, Early Research and Recent Studies of the Principal Fortress of the Teutonic Order
Av Adrian Boas
Häftad, 2016
3549 kr
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Winner of the 2017 Verbruggen prizeMontfort Castle, located in the western Galilee, was the principal fortress of the Teutonic Order, one of the three great military orders of the Crusader period. It was built in the early thirteenth century and occupied and dismantled by the Mamluk army in 1271. …
Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean
Comparative Perspectives
Inbunden, 2013
3969 kr
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Publicly performed rituals and ceremonies form an essential part of medieval political practice and court culture. This applies not only to western feudal societies, but also to the linguistically and culturally highly diversified environment of Byzantium and the Mediterranean basin. The continuity …
Anxieties of a Citizen Class
The Miracles of the True Cross of San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice 1370-1480
Av Kiril Petkov
Inbunden, 2014
2647 kr
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In The Anxieties of a Citizen Class: The Miracles of the True Cross of San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice 1370-1480 Kiril Petkov identifies the socio-psychological preoccupations accompanying the formation of the leading commoner group of early Renaissance Venice, the cittadini originarii, as …
Gattilusio Lordships and the Aegean World 1355-1462
Inbunden, 2014
3586 kr
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In The Gattilusio Lordships and the Aegean World 1355-1462, Christopher Wright offers a window into the culturally and politically diverse late medieval Aegean. The overlapping influences of the contrasting networks of power at work in the region are explored through the history of one of many …
