Travellers, Merchants and Settlers in the Eastern Mediterranean, 11th-14th Centuries - 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 Travellers, Merchants and Settlers in the Eastern Mediterranean, 11th-14th Centuries write by David Jacoby. This book was released on 2023-05-31. Travellers, Merchants and Settlers in the Eastern Mediterranean, 11th-14th Centuries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of studies (the eighth by David Jacoby) covers a period witnessing intensive geographic mobility across the Mediterranean, illustrated by a growing number of Westerners engaging in pilgrimage, crusade, trading and shipping, or else driven by sheer curiosity. This movement also generated western settlement in the eastern Mediterranean region. A complex encounter of Westerners with eastern Christians and the Muslim world occurred in crusader Acre, the focus of two papers; a major emporium, it was also the scene of fierce rivalry between the Italian maritime powers. The fall of the crusader states in 1291 put an end to western mobility in the Levant and required a restructuring of trade in the region. The next five studies show how economic incentives promoted western settlement in the Byzantine provinces conquered by western forces during the Fourth Crusade and soon after. Venice fulfilled a major function in Latin Constantinople from 1204 to 1261. The city's progressive economic recovery in that period paved the way for its role as transit station furthering western trade and colonization in the Black Sea region. Venice had also a major impact on demographic and economic developments in Euboea, located along the maritime route connecting Italy to Constantinople. On the other hand, military factors drove an army of western mercenaries to establish in central Greece a Catalan state, which survived from 1311 to the 1380s.
Mosaics in the Medieval World
Mosaics in the Medieval World - 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 Mosaics in the Medieval World write by Liz James. This book was released on 2017-10-05. Mosaics in the Medieval World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Liz James offers a comprehensive history of wall mosaics produced in the European and Islamic middle ages. Taking into account a wide range of issues, including style and iconography, technique and material, and function and patronage, she examines mosaics within their historical context. She asks why the mosaic was such a popular medium and considers how mosaics work as historical 'documents' that tell us about attitudes and beliefs in the medieval world. The book is divided into two part. Part I explores the technical aspects of mosaics, including glass production, labour and materials, and costs. In Part II, James provides a chronological history of mosaics, charting the low and high points of mosaic art up until its abrupt end in the late middle ages. Written in a clear and engaging style, her book will serve as an essential resource for scholars and students of medieval mosaics.
Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 3 2018
Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 3 2018 - 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 Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 3 2018 write by . This book was released on 2018-10-31. Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 3 2018 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. True to its initial aims, the latest volume of the Journal of Greek Archaeology runs the whole chronological range of Greek Archaeology, while including every kind of material culture.
Law and History in the Latin East
Law and History in the Latin East - 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 Law and History in the Latin East write by Peter W. Edbury. This book was released on 2023-05-31. Law and History in the Latin East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This second collection of papers by Peter Edbury focuses primarily on the literature either composed in the Latin East or closely associated with it. The legal treatises from the kingdom of Jerusalem and from Cyprus and Antioch have long been recognized as providing insights into the juridical and social history of these places in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and some of the papers re-issued here reflect the author's work in re-editing two of the most famous of these treaties, those by John of Ibelin-Jaffa and Philip of Novara. The studies on historical literature are chiefly concerned with vernacular texts, most notably the Old French translation of William of Tyre and its Continuations, again much a result of his current work on a new edition of the Continuations and the associated text known as La Chronique d'Ernoul. Other papers concerned with aspects of the narrative traditions that furnish a significant part of our knowledge of Lusignan Cyprus in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and with which in one way or another Peter Edbury has been engaged since the early 1970s.
Lemesos
Lemesos - 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 Lemesos write by Angel Nicolaou Konnari. This book was released on 2015-10-13. Lemesos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is the first scholarly work in English examining the history of the town and district of Limassol in Cyprus from antiquity to the 1570/1 Ottoman conquest of the island. Based on original research and adopting a multidisciplinary approach, six established scholars study Limassol’s political, social, and economic history, as well as its artistic and cultural contribution in ancient, Byzantine, Frankish, and Venetian times. A second volume will explore the history of Limassol up to 1960.
