Books written by David Abulafia
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Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices
... 199¥200 Constantine V, emperor of Byzantium, 64 Constantine VII, emperor of Byzantium, 61¥2, 69, 70¥72 Constantine IX Monomachos, emperor of Byzantium, 76, 79 Constantine X Doukas, emperor of Byzantium, 80 Constantine the Great, ...
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The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
Cf., however, the darker view of N. Wright, William Farquhar and Singapore: Stepping Out from Raffles' Shadow (Penang, 2017). 5. ... M. Pearson, Port Cities and Intruders: the Swahili Coast, 978 references tO PP. 806–23 46.
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
16–17; P. Halpern, A Naval History of World War I (London, 1994), pp. 106–9. Cited by Rhodes James, Gallipoli, p. 33. Ibid., p. 38. Ibid., pp. 40–41; Halpern, Naval History, pp. 112, 118. Rhodes James, Gallipoli, pp.
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Triggering Article 50: Courts, Government and Parliament
Triggering Article 50: Courts, Government and Parliament
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
6; Fahmy, 'For Cavafy', p. 274; also N. Woodsworth, The Liquid Continent: a Mediterranean Trilogy, vol. 1, Alexandria (London, 2009), p. 175. 24. Y. Shavit, Tel Aviv: naissance d'une ville (1909–1936) (Paris,
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
J. George, 'Vandal poets in their context', in Merrills (ed.) ... C. Vita-Finzi, The Mediterranean Valleys: Geological Change in Historical Times (Cambridge, 1969); Hodges and Whitehouse, Mohammed, Charlemagne, pp. 57–9.
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The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
B. Dickinson and A. Vladimir, $elling the Sea: an Inside Look at the Cruise Industry (2nd edn, Hoboken, 2008), pp. 21–2. 21. M. Levinson, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (2nd edn, ...
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The Two Italies: Economic Relations Between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the Northern Communes
W. Heyd , Histoire du commerce du Levant au Moyen Age , tr . F. Raynaud , 2 vols . ( Leipzig , 1885-6 ) has little to say about Sicily . The interests of the Wisconsin school are well indicated in D. Herlihy , R. S. Lopez and V.
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
Rather than imposing a false unity on the sea and the teeming human activity it has sustained, the book emphasises diversity - ethnic, linguistic, religious and political.
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The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 4, C.1024-c.1198, Part 2
... for the power of their successors a century later . Between the death of Robert II in 1031 and the accession of Louis VI in 1108 , the kings of France had little obvious impact beyond their somewhat migratory court itself .
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Italy in the Central Middle Ages
Presenting a rounded view of Italy at a time when it was the most dynamic region in western Europe, this book looks at Italy in its entirety, rather than concentrating largely on the north, as previous studies have done.
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The French Descent into Renaissance Italy, 1494–95: Antecedents and Effects
By harping on Virginio's connections with the king, the pope turned the purchase of these lands into the basis of a diplomatic crisis, involving all the major states of Italy. Ferrante and Piero de' Medici were in league to exalt the ...
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The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
David Abulafia, The Great Sea: a Human History of the Mediterranean (London, 2011), 3. 4. p. 221. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Power, Red Sea, pp. 103–9. R. Hodges and D. Whitehouse, Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe (London, 1983), pp.
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Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor
The book also sheds new light on the aims of Frederick in Italy and the Near East, and concentrates as well on the last fifteen years of the Emperor's life, a period until now little understood.
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The Mediterranean in History
What is the Mediterranean? - Physical setting - Trading empires - Sea routes - Mare Nostrum - Christian Mediterranean - Resurgent Islam - Battleground of the European powers - Globalized Mediterranean.
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A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca
This book emphasises the major transformations in the trade of the Balearic Islands from the eve of the Catalan conquest to the Black Death, and the effect of the kingdom's creation and demise on the economy of the region.
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The Western Mediterranean Kingdoms, 1200-1500: The Struggle for Dominion
A pioneering account of the dynastic struggle between the kings of Aragon and the Angevin kings of Naples, which shaped the commercial as well as the political map of the...
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Church and City, 1000-1500: Essays in Honour of Christopher Brooke
This volume of essays is intended as a tribute to the distinguished medieval historian Christopher Brooke. It addresses new questions in areas of medieval history which Professor Brooke has made his own: urban life and religious life.
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The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything in European explorers experience. From the first recorded encounters...
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The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 3, C.900-c.1024
122–30 Grierson , P. ( 1973a , 1973b ) , Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection : Leo III to ... Economic Expansion in the Byzantine Empire 900–1200 , Cambridge Hendy , M. ( 1985 ) , Studies in the Byzantine ...