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...Shayne Aaron Legassie In spite of its violent origins, medieval chivalry provided rich imaginative resources for bridging ethnic, religious, and linguistic divisions. Pero Tafur’s Andanças (ca. 1453) relates the travels of one Castilian knight through the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Tafur’s...

... have argued that after ca. 1350 women in the North Sea region were drawn into the land and labor markets to a far greater extent than women in other parts of Europe, and in particular into employment as single live‐in servants, which led to a rise in the average age of women at first marriage...

... come, go, or happen; and it is a hole (into which things disappear), like Central Asia in certain formulations of world history.1 The Mediterranean is seldom simply a sea space; rather (as its name suggests) it is embedded in the land and in the imaginations of land-based peoples. It marks...

...: or, the False- hearted Sailor, Being a relation of one Mary Shalford, near Ratliff- Cross, that was in love with a sea- man, who had prom- ised her marriage (ca. 1664 1703). Taken together with the more positive representations cited above, these ballads signal a cultural conversation not only about seamen s...

... of leopards He rebukes his loved ones and chooses wandering, Forsakes shelter and inhabits sun- scorched places. Jehudah Halevi, Sea Poem I can recite a true story about myself, Relate my experiences, how in days of toil I Have often suffered times of hardship, Endured bitter breast care, Known...

... a new generation of Mediterraneanists who still find, whatever their disagreements, that the sea and its shores provide a produc- tive methodological framework for their work. The Mediterranean Principle has indeed become exportable, as its proponents have been busy for some time finding...

... Duke University Durham, North Carolina By the time it appeared in 2000, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediter- ranean History by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell had been eagerly awaited. (The compilers of Blackwell’s catalog had jumped the gun by what turned...

..., helping to define and delineate the values of the developing polis and the lost kingdom of a just king.16 Ithaka The home of these values is Odysseus’ goal, Ithaka, but Ithaka is in fact a place of great ambiguity. It is a small but familiar island in the Ionian Sea, perhaps modern Ithaki...

.... The poem draws its material from vernacular English sermons, biblical judgment accounts, and patristic writings. 5 It opens with some of the Fifteen Signs of Doom common in medieval literature: stars falling, sun and moon darkening, the sea rising, and a global fire. Then, Christ and his angels descend...

... to cope with the challenges of maritime trade and combat at sea. With these ships, the English defeated the Spanish Armada and then went on to harass Spanish shipping under the skilled command of captains like Sir Francis Drake and the Hawkins family. These same ships were able to sail regularly...

..., the episode seems to indicate that the relic and God thwart rather than align with Roger's will. Translation occurs on the relic's terms, as is often the case in miracle narratives. What emerges in the narration of the sea voyage, however, is an intriguing portrait of the ways in which human agency, even...

... spiritual solace, even as the body decays.8 The three eponymous passages are imagined as gateways to everlasting life, of which the world’s geography (“my South-­west disoverie . . . the Pacifique Sea . . . the Eastern Riches”) is but a poor foreshadowing of an eventual heavenly existence. So...

..., the restoration of the Greeks in Constantinople (1261) opened the Black Sea to their allies, the Genoese, and soon to the Venetians as well. . . . [I]n the first decades of the fourteenth century there came into being regular maritime routes towards Flanders, Romania, Cyprus...

... hundred years. Ottoman armies carried the banner of Islam across Egypt and the Maghreb, east to Mecca, Medina, and the Caspian Sea, and across Greece and the Balkans as far as Budapest in Europe. The empire was at the height of its power under Suleiman...

... Gruyter, 2012. x, 371 pp.; 24 illus. eur 84.00. 6. The Mediterranean world Abulafia, David. The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2011) 2013. xxxi, 783 pp.; 75 color plates and maps throughout. Paper $24.95. Chubb, Taryn E. L., and Emily Kelley...

... fearsome pagan ritual, in contrast to the scene framed in the arch at the bottom of the page, in which three European ships in dignified symmetry sail with a following wind out into the wider sea. Resonance, on the other hand, is a central e ffect of the calmly detailed narrative and modest...

... and write about the journey along the way: don t trust your shipmates, [f]or men are strangely apt to play the thief on board ship, even though they may abhor thieving when not at sea. He then gives this example: [W]hile you are writing, if you lay down your pen and turn your face away, your pen...

... “outlandish” foods for sea voyages and war into domestic contexts of dearth, taking into account the unsettled state of itinerant consumers who were not necessarily sailors and soldiers alone. 35 Ordinary households could adapt their methods, Platt argues, as he describes his experiments with producing...

... for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: 1. Editions and translations 2. Reference 3. Mapping space 4. Theater and performance 5. Cities and urban life 6. The sea 7. Family and the everyday 8. Chivalry...