A Companion to Medieval Genoa

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A Companion to Medieval Genoa
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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2018-03-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004360611
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A Companion to Medieval Genoa introduces non-specialists to recent scholarship on the vibrant and source-rich medieval history of Genoa. Focusing mostly on the eleventh to fifteenth centuries, the volume positions the city of Genoa and the Genoese within the broader history of the Italian peninsula and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. Thematic contributions highlight the interdependence of local, regional, and international concerns, and serve as a helpful corrective to the traditional overemphasis of Florence and Venice in the English-language historiography of medieval Italy. The volume thus offers a fresh perspective on the history of medieval Italy—as well as a handy introduction to the riches of the Genoese archives—to undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in related fields. Contributors are Ross Balzaretti, Carrie E. Beneš, Denise Bezzina, Roberta Braccia, Luca Filangieri, George L. Gorse, Paola Guglielmotti, Thomas Kirk, Sandra Macchiavello, Merav Mack, Jeffrey Miner, Rebecca Müller, Antonio Musarra, Sandra Origone, Giovanna Petti Balbi, Valeria Polonio, Gervase Rosser, Antonella Rovere, Stefan Stantchev, and Carlo Taviani.

A Companion to Sardinian History, 500–1500

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A Companion to Sardinian History, 500–1500
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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 681
Release: 2017-08-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004341242
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The first English-language survey of medieval and modern Sardinia, this volume offers access to long-awaited European scholarship on a critical missing link in the Mediterranean. Based on new archaeological fieldwork and current research from a variety of academic perspectives— architecture, colonialism, ecclesiastic history, cartography, demography, law, musicology, politics, trade, and urban planning—the authors provide the foundation to incorporate Sardinia into a broader European history. Among other contributions, archaeology adds critical insight into the relationship between Christian, Muslim, and Jewish inhabitants of Sardinia, through examinations of urban and rural settlement patterns. This volume aims to stimulate further analysis of the critical role Sardinia has played as one of the largest and most strategically located islands in the Mediterranean. Contributors are Laura Biccone, Nathalie Bouloux, Henri Bresc, Marco Cadinu, Roberto Coroneo, Laura Galoppini, Henrike Haug, Michelle Hobart, Rossana Martorelli, Giampaolo Mele, Marco Milanese, Giovanni Murgia, Gian Giacomo Ortu, Daniela Rovina, Olivetta Schena, Cecilia Tasca, Raimondo Turtas, and Corrado Zedda.

European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State

by Kate Fleet
European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State
Author: Kate Fleet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1999-07-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521642213
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A readable and authoritative account of the economic development of the early Ottoman state.

Gold & Spices

by Jean Favier
Gold & Spices
Author: Jean Favier
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:
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"Eminent medievalist Jean Favier introduces and analyzes the political, social, moral, and economic milieux of the late Middle Ages that engendered Europe's transformation from feudalism to capitalism. ... Favier reveals that the ultimate consequence of this risk-taking was not merely the accumulation of wealth by such families as the Medici and the Fuggers, but the transposition of social and aesthetic values upon the populace, leading to the rise of the middle class."--Jacket.

The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience

by Paul K. Moser
The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
Author: Paul K. Moser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2020-07-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108472176
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Offers a state-of-the-art contribution by providing critical analyses of and creative insights to the nature of religious experience.

Late Medieval Mysticism

by Ray C. Petry
Late Medieval Mysticism
Author: Ray C. Petry
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1957-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664241636
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Included in this collection of Medieval writings are Ray Petry's careful essays on the province and character of mysticism and the history of mysticism from Plato to Bernard of Clairvaux. Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works--each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the church through the centuries.

A Source Book for Mediæval History

by Oliver J. Thatcher
A Source Book for Mediæval History
Author: Oliver J. Thatcher
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2019-11-22
Genre: History
ISBN:
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A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.

A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities

by Konrad Eisenbichler
A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities
Author: Konrad Eisenbichler
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2019-02-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004392912
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After the State and the Church, the most well organized membership system of medieval and early modern Europe was the confraternity. In cities, towns, and villages it would have been difficult for someone not to be a member of a confraternity, the recipient of its charity, or aware of its presence in the community. In A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities, Konrad Eisenbichler brings together an international group of scholars to examine confraternities from various perspectives: their origins and development, their devotional practices, their charitable activities, and their contributions to literature, music, and art. The result is a picture of confraternities as important venues for the acquisition of spiritual riches, material wealth, and social capital. Contributors to this volume: Alyssa Abraham, Davide Adamoli, Christopher F. Black, Dominika Burdzy, David D’Andrea, Konrad Eisenbichler, Anna Esposito, Federica Francesconi, Marina Gazzini, Jonathan Glixon, Colm Lennon, William R. Levin, Murdo J. MacLeod, Nerida Newbigin, Dylan Reid, Gervase Rosser, Nicholas Terpstra, Paul Trio, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, Beata Wojciechowska, and Danilo Zardin.

Mendicants and Merchants in the Medieval Mediterranean

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Mendicants and Merchants in the Medieval Mediterranean
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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004250336
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Mendicants and Merchants in the Medieval Mediterranean, edited by Chubb and Kelley, offers an interdisciplinary study of the mutually beneficial relationships that developed between merchants and the mendicant orders during the late Middle Ages.