Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean

Studies in Honour of David Jacoby

Benjamin Arbel

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780714642604
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135781958
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Byzantine History
• Index: History

These essays by medievalists touch upon many aspects of intercultural links in the medieval Mediterranean, covering not only strictly cultural and religious contacts, but also political, military, ethnic, social institutional, scientific and technological relationships.

INDEX

Abagha (Mongol Ilkhan of Persia), 98, 102, 227n

Abraam di Benedetto di Salamone, 211

Abrae (son of Giovanni), 45

Abraham de Tortosa, 128

Abraham di Caffa, 38

Abraham Leonino di Ancona, 37, 38

Abraino, Cagi, 43

Abraym, Moyse, 130

Abruzzi, 214

Abū Bakr ben Zakarīyā āl–Rāzī (Rhazes), 54, 55

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakkariyya, 129

Abu Hafsān ‘Alī, 139

Achaia, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 235

Acre, 2, 21, 42, 75, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 172, 176, 178, 242, 243

Acri, Guglielmo di, 37, 44

Ademaro of Tulle, 251

Adorno, Anselmo, 26, 27, 28, 29 30, 32, 33

Adrian (brother of Alexios I), 143

Adrianople, 219

Adriatic, 2, 4, 214

Aegean, 4, 107, 178, 182

Africa, 92, 94, 96, 124, 263, 267, 268, 270

Agnes (sister of Hugh de Lusignan), 45

Aguilers, Raymond d’, 81

Ahrweiler, H., 148, 151, 158, 160

Aimery (king of Jerusalem), 74

Albania, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 109, 133, 145, 163

Albert of Rizzato, 170

Albizo, Manno d’, 213

Alcazar, 270

Alcántara, 116

Alexander IV (Pope), 93

Alexander VI (Pope), 261, 264, 271

Alexandria, 242, 245, 246, 247, 248

Alexios I (Byzantine emperor), 143, 154, 156

Alfachino, Guglielmo, 130

Alfonso III (king of Aragon), 20

Alfonso X of Castile, 92, 93, 101, 102, 103, 233

Algeciras, 125

Almería, 125

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• The Aragonese Kingdom of Albania: An Angevin Project of 1311-1316
• Roger of Lauria’s Expedition to the Peloponnese
• The Urban Landscape of Rhodes as Perceived by Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Travellers
• Ethnic Groups, Cross-Social and Cross-Cultural Contacts on Fifteenth-Century Cyprus
• Between East and West: A Jewish Doctor from 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 Letres dou Sepulcre
• Crusader Art in the Twelfth 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 Twelfth to the Fourteenth 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 the 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 Fourteenth Century
• List of Contributors
• Index