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Containing Multitudes

Author : Eva Nyström

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Page : 356 pages

File Size : 46,13 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Books

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This study employs as its primary source a codex from Uppsala University Library, Codex Upsaliensis Graecus 8 . Its aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the Late Byzantine and post-Byzantine miscellaneous book. It is argued that multitext books reflect the time and society in which they were created. A thorough investigation of such books sheds light on the interests and concerns of the scribes, owners, and readers of the books. Containing some ninety texts of different character and from different genres, Codex Upsaliensis Graecus 8 is a complex creation, but still an example of a type of book that was common during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This study takes a comprehensive view of the book in its entirety, making sense of its different parts in relation to the whole with the help of codicology and textual analysis. With that approach the original idea of the book is brought to the fore, and the texts are studied in the same context that the main scribe Theodoros chose and the early owners and readers of the book encountered. Through a systematic codicological analysis, the overall structure of the codex is explored and suggestions are made concerning the provenance. The examination of the scribal work procedure becomes a means to profile this otherwise fairly unknown scribe. The texts are grouped and characterized typologically to illustrate connections throughout the whole book as well as in relation to the separate structural units. The role of micro-texts and secondary layers of inscription is also considered. From the perspective of usability the texts are divided into four categories: narrative texts, rhetorical texts, philosophical-theological texts, and practical texts. Three texts are studied in greater depth, as examples of the width of the scribe's interests and the variety of the book's contents.



Pope Gregory X and the Crusades

Author : Philip Bruce Baldwin

Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Page : 265 pages

File Size : 48,80 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1843839164

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First full-length study of Pope Gregory X in relation to Crusade, demonstrating his significant impact.



Studies on the Crusader States and on Venetian Expansion

Author : David Jacoby

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 341 pages

File Size : 21,83 MB

Release : 2017-11-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1351789864

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This title was first published in 2001. This volume is a sequal to the two published in the Variorum Reprints series,in 1975 and 1979 respectively under the following titles: Société et démographie.



The Western Mediterranean Kingdoms

Author : David S H Abulafia

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 17,43 MB

Release : 2014-06-17

Category : History

ISBN : 1317897404

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A pioneering account of the dynastic struggle between the kings of Aragon and the Angevin kings of Naples, which shaped the commercial as well as the political map of the Mediterranean and had a profound effect on the futures of Spain, France, Italy and Sicily. David Abulafia does it full justice, reclaiming from undeserved neglect one of the formative themes in the history of the Middle Ages.





The Experience of Crusading

Author : Marcus Graham Bull

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 340 pages

File Size : 45,86 MB

Release : 2003-06-23

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9780521781510

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A collection of essays focusing on the history and politics of the Latin East.



Friars in the Cathedral

Author : Williell R. Thomson

Publisher : PIMS

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 50,46 MB

Release : 1975

Category : History

ISBN : 9780888440334

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Latins, Greeks and Muslims: Encounters in the Eastern Mediterranean, 10th-15th Centuries

Author : David Jacoby

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 370 pages

File Size : 26,36 MB

Release : 2023-05-31

Category : History

ISBN : 1000947440

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Trade, shipping, military conquest, migration and settlement in the eastern Mediterranean of the 10th-15th centuries generated multiple encounters between states, social and 'national' groups, and individuals belonging to Latin Christianity, Byzantium and the Islamic world. The nature of these encounters varied widely, depending on whether they were the result of cooperation, rivalry or clashes between states, the outcome of Latin conquest, which altered the social and legal status of indigenous subjects, or the result of economic activity. They had wide-ranging social and economic repercussions, and shaped both individual and collective perceptions and attitudes. These often differed, depending upon 'nationality', standing within the dominant or subject social strata, or purely economic considerations. In any event, at the individual level common economic interests transcended collective 'national' and cultural boundaries, except in times of crisis. The studies in this latest collection by David Jacoby explore the multiple facets of these eastern Mediterranean encounters and their impact upon individual economic activities, with special attention to the 'other', outsiders in foreign environments, foreign privileged versus indigenous traders, the link between governmental intervention, 'naturalization', and fiscal status, as well as the interaction between markets and peasants.



The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology

Author : Clifford J. Rogers

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 1798 pages

File Size : 36,18 MB

Release : 2010

Category : History

ISBN : 0195334035

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This set is an excellent companion to J. R. Strayer's edited Dictionary of the Middle Ages (CH, Nov'87; Supplement I, ed. by W. C. Jordan, CH, Sep'04, 42-0044). The focus on warfare allows the editors to offer larger entries on major topics (e.g., "Agincourt," "Crusades," "Feudalism") and introduce many complementary topics. The editors are concerned with Europe; they expand coverage into Asia or Africa only because of the connection to medieval Europe. Coverage also includes an abundance of entries pertaining to Central and Eastern Europe. Most of the 1,000-plus entries are about a page in length, but a few approach 50 pages. Medium and large-size entries, such as "Chivalry," "Germany," and "Slavic Lands," discuss primary sources and very valuable historiographies. A thorough index helps readers locate the Knights Templar under "Orders, Military, Levantine Orders." Cross-references and bibliographies follow each of the signed entries. Locating reliable and scholarly information on the Knights Templar and Vlad Tepes (Dracula) is tricky. Some of the bibliographies include sources in foreign languages. For example, the references for the Black Army of Hungary are in Hungarian. Noticeably missing are entries for the many wars. This set is particularly suited to research libraries. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by W. M. Fontane.



Strangers to Themselves: The Byzantine Outsider

Author : Dion C. Smythe

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 49,9 MB

Release : 2016-12-05

Category : History

ISBN : 1351897802

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March 1998 saw Byzantinists gathering together at the University of Sussex in Brighton, for the annual symposium held by the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. Their aim was to consider the question of the 'Byzantine outsider'. Some categories of outsiders appear clear and simple: those marked out by class, race, sex, religion. But these categories are not universals. Today, historians of all periods are examining the ways in which we analyse the divisions in our societies, which can determine how we look at societies in the past. There is no consensus on who forms the 'outsider class' in modern society; it should come as no surprise that there was no consensus in Byzantium as to who the outsiders were, what they had done to deserve that status, and what the result of their attaining it should have been. The papers in this collection, drawn from the large number presented at the XXXII Spring Symposium, continue the debate about the idea of the 'Byzantine outsider'. The scholars within - theologians, historians, literary critics and art historians - present differing approaches to different aspects of the problem. The volume does not aim to have the 'last word', but rather to provoke debate and to open the field. Any examination of society that uses the concept of the outsider has implicitly within it a concept of the 'insider'. By looking at those on the margins it becomes easier to see who were - or at least thought they were - on the inside.