First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing.
The cutting-edge papers in this collection reflect the wide areas to which John Pryor has made significant contributions in the course of his scholarly career. They are written by some of the world's most distinguished practitioners in the fields of Crusading history and the maritime history of the medieval Mediterranean. His colleagues, students and friends discuss questions including ship construction in the fourth and fifteenth centuries, navigation and harbourage in the eastern Mediterranean, trade in Fatimid Egypt and along the Iberian Peninsula, military and social issues arising among the crusaders during field campaigns, and wider aspects of medieval warfare. All those with an interest in any of these subjects, whether students or specialists, will need to consult this book.
Author(s): Ruthy Gertwagen, Elizabeth Jeffreys (eds.)
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Language: English, French, Italian
Pages: XXVI+418
List of Figures and Tables ix
List of Contributors xi
John Pryor: A Tribute / Ruthy Gertwagen and Elizabeth Jeffreys xv
The Publications of John Pryor xxi
PART I: Shipping
1. Prolegomena to a World History of Harbour and River Chains / Benjamin Z. Kedar 3
2. The Socio-economic Implications for Ship Construction: Evidence from Underwater Archaeology and the 'Codex Theodosianus' / Hadas Mor 39
3. An Unpublished Medieval Portolan of the Mediterranean in Minneapolis / David Jacoby 65
4. Difficult Sources: Crusader Art and the Depiction of Ships / Richard W. Unger 85
5. Les vices et la criminalité des marins vénitiens à bord des navires voyageant vers la Mer Noire, XIVe–XVe siècles / Sergei Karpov 105
6. Byzantine Shipbuilding in Fifteenth-century Venetian Crete: War Galleys and the Link to the Arsenal in Venice / Ruthy Gertwagen 115
PART II: Trade
7. A Mediterranean Encounter: The Fatimids and Europe, Tenth to Twelfth Centuries / Yaacov Lev 131
8. Local Trade Networks in Medieval Sicily: The Evidence of Idrisi / David Abulafia 157
9. Aspects of Intercoastal Trade in the Western Mediterranean: The Voyage of the Santa María de Natzare / Lawrence V. Mott 167
10. Brevi note su Pera genovese a metà del XIV secolo / Laura Balletto 197
11. Genoa and Barcelona: Two Hypotheses for a 'Global' World / Gabriella Airaldi 223
Part III: Crusade
12. The Crusader March from Dorylaion to Herakleia, 4 July – ca. 2 September 1097 / Bernard S. Bachrach 231
13. Sex, Death and the Problem of Single Women in the Armies of the First Crusade / Alan V. Murray 255
14. Caffaro, Crusade, and the 'Annales Januensis': History and its Uses in Twelfth-century Genoa / John E. Dotson 271
15. Mercenaries and Capuchins in Southern France in the Late Twelfth Century / John France 289
16. Triumph Re-imagined: The Golden Gate and Popular Memory in Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople / Thomas F. Madden 317
17. The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade / Mark Gregory Pegg 329
18. The Importance of Greeks in Latin Thought: The Evidence of Roger Bacon / Amanda Power 351
19. The Roles of Hospitaller and Templar Sergeants / Jonathan Riley-Smith 379
20. Buondelmonti and the Holy War / Michel Balard 387
Index 397
