Focuses on the crusading period in the Holy Land, considering the Hospital in Jerusalem, relations with the Assassins, finances, indulgences, transportation and the careers of the brothers and knights. This work also considers the Hospitallers on Rhodes, relations between Rhodes and the West and... číst celé
The history of individual seascapes has recently become a vibrant and innovative field of research. Nonetheless, connections between seas (entre mers) and the imagination of lands „beyond the Sea“ (Outre-mer) have only rarely been focused in these contexts. This is precisely the main aim of the present collection of essays, which results from a conference held at Heidelberg University. The individual papers treat various aspects of transmarine connections, their regulation and mental expansion in an Indo-Mediterranean context, which comprises the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, as well as projections of seaways to India on other maritime areas, thus spanning a wide chronological spectrum from Egyptian antiquity to the onset of the Atlantic Age in the sixteenth century.
Die Sinne rücken in das Blickfeld der Mittelalterforschung und werfen kaum erforschte, hoch anregende Fragen auf. Im Fokus der dreizehn Aufsätze dieses Sammelbands steht die mittelalterliche Akustik. Die Autorinnen und Autoren erforschen zeitgenössische Haltungen zu Lärm und Schweigen; sie untersuchen den Einsatz von Geräuschen als Mittel der Repräsentation und der gesellschaftlichen Ordnung; und sie analysieren, wie im Mittelalter die Erzeugung und Wahrnehmung von Klängen besprochen, beschrieben, gemalt oder gedeutet wurden. Die Beiträge liefern Einblicke in entfernte Räume – von Byzanz bis zur Iberischen Halbinsel, von Mitteleuropa bis in den Nahen Osten ‒ aus der Perspektive unterschiedlicher historischer Teildisziplinen: der Geschichtswissenschaft und der Rechtsgeschichte, der Literaturwissenschaft, der Kunst- und der Musikgeschichte. Within medieval studies, the senses are turning into a booming field of research, raising highly stimulating and hardly researched questions. The thirteen essays in this anthology focus on the broad field of medieval acoustics. The authors explore contemporary attitudes to noise and silence; they examine the use of sound as an instrument of representation and social order; and they analyse how the production and perception of sounds were discussed, described, depicted and interpreted in the Middle Ages. The contributions provide insights into distant spaces – from Byzantium in the East to the Iberian Peninsula in the West, from Central Europe to the Middle East ‒ from the perspective of different historical sub-disciplines: historiography and legal history, literary studies, art history and music history. Sprachen: Englisch, Deutsch
Queens, Princesses and Mendicants. The decades between ca 1280 and ca 1380 were marked by a striking affinity to the Men
Taking recent scholarship into account, and using boxes, case studies, marginal directions and chronologies at the beginning of each chapter, the book is well laid out and easy to follow and provides a clear and concise introduction to the history of the Crusades. číst celé