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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mike Carr (Royalty Account)Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: The Boydell Press Volume: v. 41 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9781843839903ISBN 10: 1843839903 Pages: 214 Publication Date: 17 December 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction The Splintered Aegean World A New Enemy: The Emergence of the Turks as a 'Target' of a Crusade Latin Response to the Turks: The Naval Leagues Logistics and Strategies The Papacy and the Naval Leagues Cross-Cultural Trade in the Aegean and Economic Mechanisms for Merchant Crusaders Conclusion Appendices BibliographyReviews[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 serve scholars in research and teaching for a long time. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TURKISH STUDIES [M]akes especially interesting use of petitions and supplications to the pope for exemptions from trade embargoes and the relationship of these dispensations to crusading projects . also draws on a wide variety of other sources, both narrative and otherwise . Scholars interested in the later crusades, maritime warfare, trade between Christians and Muslims, and the Aegean region will all find interesting food for thought here. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW Mike Carr has written a monograph designed to cut across the subgenres of economic and crusading history (p 6). He qualifies and corrects common assumptions about the conduct of the Crusades by revealing profound diversity among Islamic actors on one hand, and rivalries both subtle and profound within Greek and Latin Christianity on the other. DE RE MILITARI [An] innovative perspective . By pitting interfaith conflict against the backdrop of the larger Mediterranean world in which it was happening, Carr makes a compelling case for the merchant crusader, one that ought to be considered in other theaters in which the crusading phenomenon occurred. H-WAR (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 serve scholars in research and teaching for a long time. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TURKISH STUDIES (M)akes especially interesting use of petitions and supplications to the pope for exemptions from trade embargoes and the relationship of these dispensations to crusading projects . also draws on a wide variety of other sources, both narrative and otherwise . Scholars interested in the later crusades, maritime warfare, trade between Christians and Muslims, and the Aegean region will all find interesting food for thought here. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW Mike Carr has written a monograph designed to cut across the subgenres of economic and crusading history (p 6). He qualifies and corrects common assumptions about the conduct of the Crusades by revealing profound diversity among Islamic actors on one hand, and rivalries both subtle and profound within Greek and Latin Christianity on the other. DE RE MILITARI (An) innovative perspective . By pitting interfaith conflict against the backdrop of the larger Mediterranean world in which it was happening, Carr makes a compelling case for the merchant crusader, one that ought to be considered in other theaters in which the crusading phenomenon occurred. H-WAR Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |