Trends and Turning Points presents sixteen articles, examining the discursive construction of the late antique and Byzantine world, focusing specifically on the utilisation of trends and turning point
Byzantium in Dialogue with the Mediterranean. History and Heritage shows that throughout the centuries of its existence, Byzantium continuously communicated with other cultures and societies on the Eu
This volume captures the diversity of approaches in crusade scholarship, which often cross cultures and academic disciplines. Essays by the contributors study the role of art and architecture, liturgy
In this book Filip Van Tricht presents a microstudy of political, social and cultural life in Latin-Byzantine Constantinople and Romania in the mid-13th century.
In The Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium, Shay Eshel shows how the Old Testament model of the ancient Israelites was a prominent factor in the evolution of Roman-Byzantine national awareness be
In Conflict, Commerce, and an Aesthetic of Appropriation in the Italian Maritime Cities, 1000-1150, Karen Rose Mathews analyzes the relationship between war, trade, and the use of spolia (appropriated
Venice and Its Neighbors from the 8th to 11th Century offers an account of the formation and character of early Venice, drawing on archaeological evidence from Venice and related sites, and written so
"Caring for the Living Soul identifies the fundamental role emotions played in the development of learned medicine and in the formation of the social role of the 'physicians of the body' in western Me
In Mattos Uhayeci and His Chronicle Tara L. Andrews presents the first ever in-depth study of the history written by this Armenian priest, who lived in Edessa (modern-day Urfa in Turkey) around the tu
From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities provides twenty-five articles addressing the concept of centres and peripheries in the late antique and Byzantine worlds, focusing on urban
In The Byzantine Turks, 1204–1461 Rustam Shukurov offers an account of Turkic minority in Late Byzantium including Nicaean, Palaiologan, and Grand Komnenian empires.
Urbino, Rome, Florence, Milan, Ferrara… but also Mantua and Imola, Carpi and Saluzzo, Naples and Sicily: a collection of case studies on the Renaissance renewal of Italian court palaces from a compara
Archbishop William of Tyre's history of the Kingdom of Jerusalem has long been a primary source for the history of the crusades, but Handyside argues that the Latin original was not widely circulated,
In The Anxieties of a Citizen Class Kiril Petkov reveals the uses of religious symbolism and miracle metaphors for the expression and alleviation of the social anxieties accompanying the formation of
In The Gattilusio Lordships, Christopher Wright offers a window into the culturally and politically diverse world of the late medieval Aegean, through the microcosm of one of the small and distinctive
Scholars of Byzantine religion, literature, and culture explore women; icons and images; and texts, practices, and spaces. Among the topics examined are learned women of Byzantium and the surviving re
In this thorough revision of a part of the author's doctoral thesis (at the U. of Ghent), the Crusader Latin rule in Constantinople is examined in painstaking detail, based on contemporary chronicles
In the middle of the 14th century, a lay Neapolitan patrician named Bartolomeo Caracciolo-Carafa wrote the first history of Naples for over 400 years, and extending from earliest antiquity to his own
The book presents a comprehensive analysis of the “Letter of Love and Concord.” This revised diplomatic edition based on the study of sixty nine manuscripts, explores its numerous written, material, o
The second half of the fourteenth century was a period of rapid change in the Eastern Mediterranean, principally due to the expansion into Europe of the Ottoman Turks. Demetrius Kydones was one of the
Kelly (history, University of Missouri, Kansas City) goes beyond the chronicles and literary memoirs of the Plague in Italy. She has painstakingly researched the wills drawn up in Bologna in 1348, at
The image of the face of Jesus kept at Edessa was considered a major relic by the Eastern Church. Born in legend, the stories about it grew and altered over the centuries. Medieval scholar Guscin has
This book presents a detailed account of Ficino’s De Christiana religione and of Pico’s Apologia, in the context of the evolution of a humanist theology. Focusing on the relations between humanism, th
This volume of the Brill series on the medieval Mediterranean discusses the diplomatic documents that passed between Arab, Greek and Latin states in the Near East. Articles cover treaties, letters bet
The presence and activities of the military order in Italy have been little studied, says Bellomo (medieval history, Rutgers U.), partly because of a scarcity of sources. She offers a general picture
Specialists in the history of late antique and Byzantine art and architecture are the contributors to this commemorative volume. Funeral practices, court ceremonial, and architectural use are some of
Scholars mostly in England but also Scotland, the US, Ireland, and even Spain offer essays on topics of interest to late British historian Fletcher. Many of them place Spain in the context of medieval
The story of religious tolerance and its dramatic end in 1492 in the three Christian kingdoms that became modern Spain is well known, but Soyer, a specialist on religious minorities and the Inquisitio
Orsini was a rare example during the period of an Italian who played a central role in the Avignon papacy's Italian policy, says Beattie (history, U. of Louisville). He was dispatched to Italy as lega
Khalilieh (legal history and Islamic law of the sea, U. of Haifa) explores the manner in which Muslim jurists viewed and resolved maritime disputes, in comparison to their Roman and Byzantine predeces
The four decades between the death of al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad and the accession of the amir Barquq have long borne a reputation for social, economic, and political chaos and upheaval; historians ha
Perhaps because Allatios (1586-1669) was not a particularly original writer, says Hartnup; his writings are not deeply studied nor widely known to modern scholarship, though he stood at the center of
This book studies the converted Jews in sicily following the 1492 expulsion, using contemporary sources to examine their legal, economic and cultural circumstances. It also sheds new light on Spanish
This examination of realia in Byzantine religious painting provides valuable information on Byzantine dress, household effects and implements, while introducing at the same time an alternative, litera
