Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean, 1291-1352
Mike Carr
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Description for Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean, 1291-1352
Hardback. An examination of the changing nature of crusade and its participants in the late medieval Mediterranean. Series: Warfare in History. Num Pages: 214 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QRM; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBWC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 481.
An examination of the changing nature of crusade and its participants in the late medieval Mediterranean. The period from the fall of Acre until the end of the Crusade of Smyrna signified a dramatic shift in crusade impetus, as expeditions to liberate the Holy Land were superseded by those aimed at reducing the maritime power of the Turks in the Aegean. With this shift came a change in participation, as the members of the merchant republics of Venice and Genoa, together with the Frankish states in the Aegean, began slowly to replace the chivalry of western Europe as the ... Read more
An examination of the changing nature of crusade and its participants in the late medieval Mediterranean. The period from the fall of Acre until the end of the Crusade of Smyrna signified a dramatic shift in crusade impetus, as expeditions to liberate the Holy Land were superseded by those aimed at reducing the maritime power of the Turks in the Aegean. With this shift came a change in participation, as the members of the merchant republics of Venice and Genoa, together with the Frankish states in the Aegean, began slowly to replace the chivalry of western Europe as the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843839903
SKU
V9781843839903
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Reviews for Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean, 1291-1352
This eloquently written, accessible, and well-argued monograph makes an innovative contribution from a fresh perspective to the study of the pre-modern Mediterranean.
AL-MASAQ
[R]epresents a painstaking effort to piece together information from disparate sources of varied provenience into an exceptionally accurate and comprehensive, yet brief and readable survey of Latin-Turkish interactions in the fourteenth-century Aegean. This book will ... Read more
AL-MASAQ
[R]epresents a painstaking effort to piece together information from disparate sources of varied provenience into an exceptionally accurate and comprehensive, yet brief and readable survey of Latin-Turkish interactions in the fourteenth-century Aegean. This book will ... Read more