Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean, 1291-1352

An examination of the changing nature of crusade and its participants in the late medieval Mediterranean.

List of contents

Introduction
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
Bibliography

About the author

Mike Carr

Product details

• Authors: Mike Carr, Mike (Royalty Account) Carr
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2015
• EAN: 9781843839903
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-990-3
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Series: Warfare in History; Warfare in History (Hardcover); Warfare in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous