Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean : Studies in Honour of David Jacoby

by Arbel, Benjamin

• ISBN13: 9780714647142
• ISBN10: 0714647144
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-09-30
• Publisher: Frank Cass

Summary

This volume of 23 essays by leading medievalists, in honour of Professor David Jacoby on his retirement from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, touches upon many aspects of intercultural links in the medieval Mediterranean. The topic is perceived in the widest perspective, and covers not only strictly cultural and religious contacts, but also political, military, ethnic, social, institutional, scientific and technological relationships.

Table of Contents

The Aragonese Kingdom of Albania - an Angevin project of 1311-1316

Roger of Lauria's Expedition to the Peloponnese

the urban landscape of 14th and 15th century travellers

ethnic groups, cross-social and cross-cultural contacts on 15th century Cyprus

between east and west - a Jewish doctor in Spain

new light on the transmission of Chinese naval technology to the Mediterranean world - the single rudder

law and custom in the Latin east - Les Leteres dou Sepulcre

crusaders art in the 20th century - reflections on Christian multiculturalism in the Levant

Eleanor of Castile and the crusading movement

frontier societies and crusading in the late middle ages

Jews and Muslims in medieval Genoa - from the 12th to the 14th century

Pronoia - the history of a scholarly discussion

the intercultural career of Theodore of Antioch

the earliest documents on the Hospitaller Corso at Rhodes - 1413 and 1416

from Crete to Jerusalem - the will of a Cretan Jew (1626)

the Jewish moneylenders of late Trecento Venice -a revisitation

the Jews of Chios (1049) - a group of Excusati

marriage connections between Byzantium and the west in the age of Palaiologoi

Venice and Papal Bans on trade with the Levant - the role of the jurist

Christians and Jews, pagans and Muslims in the thought of Christopher Columbus

freedom and servitude in Cyprus and Rhodes - an Assize dating from 1396

the deathbed oration of Doge Mocenigo and the Mint of Venice

public documents and notarial praxis - some examples from Venetian Greece of the early 14th century

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