Communicating the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Sophia Menache

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Sophia Menache: an appreciation......Page 9
Preface......Page 13
Sophia Menache: publications......Page 17
List of abbreviations......Page 27
List of illustrations......Page 29
List of contributors......Page 30
PART I The military orders......Page 32
1 “Blood-Brothers” in the thirteenth-century Latin East? The Mamluk Sultan Baybars and the Templar Matthew Sauvage......Page 34
2 The Templars as peacemongers......Page 46
3 On Hospitaller initiatives in the western Mediterranean, 1291–1307......Page 55
4 Othon de Grandson et les templiers d’Épailly......Page 70
5 Evidence of the Templars’ religious practice from the records of the Templars’ estates in Britain and Ireland in 1308......Page 81
6 Economic, social and political aspects of the trade of the Teutonic Order in Prussia......Page 95
7 Written communication in the later middle ages – the letter registers of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia......Page 107
PART II The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Latin East......Page 120
8 Pisa and the Frankish states of the Levant in the twelfth century......Page 122
9 Urban soundscape: defining space and community in twelfth-century of Jerusalem......Page 134
10 Frankish bathhouses: Balneum and furnus – a functional dyad?......Page 152
11 Some evidence for poverty in the Latin East......Page 172
12 A rough guide to the Holy Land: Pilgrims’ use of the Mount Zion library in the fifteenth century......Page 188
13 First officer of the crown of France and his legacy in the Latin East: Imbert de Beaujeu......Page 200
14 The Genoese expansion in the Middle Ages......Page 210
PART III Ideology, propaganda and communication......Page 224
15 The ideology of Christian expansion in Muslim Iberia: the “Book of Deeds,” Bernat Desclot and the conquest of Majorca......Page 226
16 Thomas Ebendorfer and crusading past and present......Page 246
17 Philip II and Antwerp: the limits of representation......Page 259
18 The contested seed of Abraham......Page 270
19 Letters home: British crusaders in Flanders, France, Gallipoli and Palestine during World War I......Page 285
Index......Page 296