ABSTRACT
For almost sixty years Professor David Jacoby devoted his research to the economic, social and cultural history of the Eastern Mediterranean and this new collection reflects his impact on the study of the interactions between the Italian city-states, Byzantium, the Latin East and the realm of Islam. Contributors to this volume are prominent scholars from across Medieval Studies and leading historians of the younger generation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|172 pages
The Crusades and the Latin East
chapter 2|18 pages
Thomas Morosini, first Latin patriarch of Constantinople (1205–1211)
A re-appraisal
part II|90 pages
Venice and the Byzantine world
chapter 12|14 pages
Venice
Money for the salvation of one’s soul and the solace of one’s subjects: the donation made by Pietro II Orseolo in 1007
chapter 13|11 pages
Kaviar am Hochzeitsbankett
Die Vermählung der Agnes-Anna von Frankreich mit Alexios II. Komnenos (1180) und das Prodromos-Petra-Kloster in Konstantinopel
part III|61 pages
Medieval trade
chapter 17|19 pages
North-South, not just East-West
An understated nexus of Byzantium before and during the crusading era?
chapter 18|5 pages
What is a ciguda/ciguta?
On the Venetian navigation in the Azov Sea in the fourteenth–fifteenth centuries
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chapter 20|18 pages
Sabatino Russo, a Jewish merchant of Lecce
Challenges of transregional interfaith joint ventures around 1400
part IV|40 pages
Silk
chapter 24|14 pages
Where the silk road met the wool trade
Venetian and Muslim merchants in Tana in the late Middle Ages
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