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Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages
Author: Paul E. Chevedden
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789004105737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages
Author: Larry J. Simon
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9789004105737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This series of essays, dedicated to the work and career of Father Robert I. Burns, S.J., treats the complex relationship of Spain to the Western Mediterranean and Atlantic on the eve of Spain's ascent as a world power.
Medieval Mediterranean Ports
Author: Silvia Orvietani Busch
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-28
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 900447563X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents an innovative and detailed study of the ports of the Crown of Aragon in the initial stage of the maritime expansion of medieval Catalonia, comparing them to the Tuscan coast and port-city of Pisa in the decades that witnessed the apogee of its power in the Mediterranean, and looking for common, or contrasting, traits and patterns of development. The approach is multilevel and multidisciplinary, stressing geomorphological, geographical, political, and commercial factors, and drawing on archaeological investigations as well as published ad unpublished historical documents.
The Age of the ΔΡΟΜΩΝ
Author: John Pryor
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006-07-01
Total Pages: 838
ISBN-13: 9047409930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 galley, by the tenth century the Dromon had become a bireme, the pre-eminent war galley of the Mediterranean. The salient features of these ships were their two-banked oarage system, the spurs at their bows which replaced the ram of classical antiquity, their lateen sails, and their primary weapon: Greek Fire. The book contextualizes the technical characteristics of the ships within the operational history of Byzantine fleets, logistical problems of medieval naval warfare, and strategic objectives. Surviving Byzantine sources, especially tactical manuals, are subjected to close literary and philological analysis.
The Rise of the Fatimids
Author: Brett
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9004473378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book traces the rise of the Fatimid dynasty in the 4th century AH/10th century CE, from its origins in Islamic messianism to power in North Africa and Egypt, and a central position of influence throughout the Muslim world. The first part deals with the problem of Fatimid origins, the second with the establishment of the dynasty and its religious and political programme in North Africa, the third with the success of that programme in Egypt. Using the history of the Fatimids and their doctrine to survey the world of the Mediterranean and the Middle East in the 4th/10th century, the book offers a new interpretation of the role of the dynasty in the history of Islam down to the period of the Crusades.
Health and Medicine in Early Medieval Southern Italy
Author: Patricia Skinner
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-02-22
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 900447630X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Medical historians are already familiar with medieval southern Italy through research into its famed medical school at Salerno. This volume takes a broader view of healthcare, seeking to illuminate the experience of sickness, attitudes towards the ill and infirm and the provision of care up to the twelfth century. Combining information from hagiography and chronicles with less well-known charters and archaeology, it deals with the provision of food, the environment, women's health, individual and collective disease and varieties of cure. A final chapter assesses the interaction between intellectual and practical medicine, as well as re-examining the early life of the medical school at Salerno. The book's importance lies in its wide-ranging approach and detailed analysis, which will appeal to historians of medicine and medieval culture alike.
Urban and Rural Communities in Medieval France
Author: Kathryn Louise Reyerson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9789004108509
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides case studies of the growth of urban and rural communities and their institutions in Languedoc and Provence in the Middle Ages. The importance of a Roman law tradition and the new institutions of the notary and his records are observed in both urban and rural contexts, and interactions between town and country are featured.
Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 9004473572
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 historical approaches to studying the transition of the city of Rome from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and offers groundbreaking new analyses of selected sites and problems. Attention is given to the economic, social, religious and cultural history of the city. In the second part of the volume historical, archaeological, liturgical and palaeographical approaches address Rome's contacts and influence in Latin Christendom in this period, with particular regard to Rome's place within Italian politics and its cultural influence in Carolingian Francia and Anglo-Saxon England.
Contemporary Sources for the Fourth Crusade
Author: Alfred J. Andrea
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9789004117402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume presents English translations of seven major bodies of Latin sources for the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204). Combined, the different perspectives of these sources deepen our understanding of this complex and controversial moment in Western-Byzantine relations.
