The Medieval Mediterranean City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Medieval Mediterranean City write by Felicity Ratté. This book was released on 2021-08-17. The Medieval Mediterranean City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a study of architecture and urban design across the Mediterranean Sea from the 12th to the 14th Century, a time when there was no single, hegemonic power dominating the area. The focus of the study--four cities on the Italian peninsula, and four in Syria and Egypt--is the interconnectedness of the design and use of urban structures, streets and open space. Each chapter offers an historical analysis of the buildings and spaces used for trade, education, political display and public action. The work includes historical and social analyses of the mercantile, social, political and educational cultures of the eight cities, highlighting similarities and differences between Christian and Islamic practices. Sixteen new maps drawn specifically for this book are based on the writings of medieval travelers.
Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean
Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean write by Thomas J. MacMaster. This book was released on 2021-08-24. Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean addresses the understudied topic of the Italian peninsula’s relationship to the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, across the early and central Middle Ages. The East Roman world, commonly known by the ahistorical term "Byzantium", is generally imagined as an Eastern Mediterranean empire, with Italy part of the medieval "West". Across 18 individually authored chapters, an introduction and conclusion, this volume makes a different case: for an East Roman world of which Italy forms a crucial part, and an Italian peninsula which is inextricably connected to—and, indeed, includes—regions ruled from Constantinople. Celebrating a scholar whose work has led this field over several decades, Thomas S. Brown, the chapters focus on the general themes of empire, cities and elites, and explore these from the angles of sources and historiography, archaeology, social, political and economic history, and more besides. With contributions from established and early career scholars, elucidating particular issues of scholarship as well as general historical developments, the volume provides both immediate contributions and opens space for a new generation of readers and scholars to a growing field.
The Medieval Mediterranean City
The Medieval Mediterranean City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Medieval Mediterranean City write by Felicity Ratté. This book was released on 2021-08-18. The Medieval Mediterranean City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a study of architecture and urban design across the Mediterranean Sea from the 12th to the 14th Century, a time when there was no single, hegemonic power dominating the area. The focus of the study--four cities on the Italian peninsula, and four in Syria and Egypt--is the interconnectedness of the design and use of urban structures, streets and open space. Each chapter offers an historical analysis of the buildings and spaces used for trade, education, political display and public action. The work includes historical and social analyses of the mercantile, social, political and educational cultures of the eight cities, highlighting similarities and differences between Christian and Islamic practices. Sixteen new maps drawn specifically for this book are based on the writings of medieval travelers.
Medieval Cities
Medieval Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Cities write by Henri Pirenne. This book was released on 1925. Medieval Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This little volume contains the substance of lectures ... delivered from October to December 1922 in several American universities."--Pref. Bibliography: p. [245]-249.
The City Lament
The City Lament - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The City Lament write by Tamar M. Boyadjian. This book was released on 2018-12-15. The City Lament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Poetic elegies for lost or fallen cities are seemingly as old as cities themselves. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, this genre finds its purest expression in the book of Lamentations, which mourns the destruction of Jerusalem; in Arabic, this genre is known as the ritha al-mudun. In The City Lament, Tamar M. Boyadjian traces the trajectory of the genre across the Mediterranean world during the period commonly referred to as the early Crusades (1095–1191), focusing on elegies and other expressions of loss that address the spiritual and strategic objective of those wars: Jerusalem. Through readings of city laments in English, French, Latin, Arabic, and Armenian literary traditions, Boyadjian challenges hegemonic and entrenched approaches to the study of medieval literature and the Crusades. The City Lament exposes significant literary intersections between Latin Christendom, the Islamic caliphates of the Middle East, and the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia, arguing for shared poetic and rhetorical modes. Reframing our understanding of literary sources produced across the medieval Mediterranean from an antagonistic, orientalist model to an analogous one, Boyadjian demonstrates how lamentations about the loss of Jerusalem, whether to Muslim or Christian forces, reveal fascinating parallels and rich, cross-cultural exchanges.
