By the turn of the millennium, the East Mediterranean region had become a place of foreigners to Latin Christians living in Western Europe. But pilgrims and crusaders pushed the frontier in the new centuries

The Eastern Mediterranean Frontier of Latin Christendom
Edited by Jace Stuckey, Marymount University, USASeries : The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500
Ashgate Variorum 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4724-2275-0
ISBN Short: 9781472422750

ABSTRACT:

By the turn of the millennium, the East Mediterranean region had become a place of foreigners to Latin Christians living in Western Europe. Nevertheless, in the eleventh century numerous Latin Christian pilgrims streamed toward the East and Jerusalem in anticipation of the end times. The Apocalypse did not materialize as some had anticipated, but instead over the course of the next few centuries an expansion of Latin Christendom did. This expansion would transform the political, economic, and cultural landscape of both East and West and alter the course of Mediterranean history.

This volume presents 22 critical studies on this crucial period (1000-1500) in the development of the Western expansion into the Eastern Mediterranean. These works deal with economy and trade, migration and colonization, crusade and conquest, military orders, as well as religious diversity and cross-cultural interaction. It includes a bibliography of important works published in Western languages together with an introduction by the editor.

CONTENTS:

• Introduction
• Bibliography
• Part One Travel, Trade and Economy:
  Coastal shipping and navigation in the Mediterranean, Michel Balard
  The geographical considerations of the galley navigation in the Mediterranean, John H. Pryor
  Byzantine Crete in the navigation and trade networks of Venice and Genoa, David Jacoby.
• Part Two Migration and Colonization: The Venetians in the Black Sea: a general survey, Michael E. Martin
  Italian migration and settlement in Latin Greece: the impact on the economy, David Jacoby
  The Genoese in the Aegean, Michel Balard; Cyprus and the beginnings of modern sugar cane plantations and plantation slavery, Sidney M. Greenfield.
• Part Three The Crusades and the Christian East:
  The impact of the crusades on Eastern Christianity, Philip K. Hitti
  The Armenian Church and the papacy at the time of the crusades, Bernard Hamilton
  The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa: apocalypse, the First Crusade and the Armenian diaspora, Christopher MacEvitt
  Colonization and the creation of hospitals: the Eastern extension of Western hospitality in the 11th and 12th centuries, Monique Amouroux.
• Part Four Military Orders:
  The emergence of the military order in the 12th century, A.J. Forey
  The Templars as bankers and monetary transfer between West and East in the 12th century, D.M. Metcalf
  Military orders and crusader politics in the second half of the 13th century, Joshua Prawer.
• Part Five Cross-Cultural Encounters:
  The Near East on the eve of the crusades, Michael Brett
  The impact of the early crusades in the Muslim world, Robert Irwin
  The crusaders through Muslim eyes, Wadi Z. Haddad
  Ethnic identity in the crusader states: the Frankish race and the settlement of Outremer, Allan V. Murray
  Latins, Muslims and Greeks in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, Hans Eberhard Mayer.
• Part Six Trade and Crusade:
  Trade and crusade, 1050-1250, David Abulafia
  An economic interpretation of the medieval crusades, Gary M. Anderson, Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., Robert F. Herbert and Robert D. Tollison
  Papal attempts at a commercial boycott of the Muslims in the crusader period, Sophia Menache
• Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jace Stuckey is Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History and Politics at Marymount University, USA.