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Colour figures for the article: J. Preiser-Kapeller, Liquid Frontiers. A Relational Analysis of Maritime Asia Minor as religious Contact Zone in the 13th-15th Century, in: A. Peacock et. al. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop “The Reception of Islam in Anatolia and its Neighbours”, Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilisations, Istanbul, 6-7 September 2013 (forthcoming, under review) (cf. also https://www.islam-anatolia.ac.uk/?page_id=19) All graphs created by J. Preiser-Kapeller; for a pre-print of the paper and full references, see: http://www.academia.edu/4197258/Liquid_Frontiers._A_relational_analysis_of_maritime_Asia_Minor_as_religious_contact_zone_in_the_13th-15th_century
"“Mobility” has been identified as a central aspect of socio-economic and political, cultural and religious developments in historical and social research in the last years; some scholars even speak about a “mobility turn”: “The mobility turn connects the analysis of different forms of travel, transport and communications with the multiple ways in which economic and social life is performed and organized through time and across various spaces.” (John URRY, Mobilities. Cambridge 2007, p. 6). These new conceptual frameworks can be fruitfully combined with traditional methods of historical analysis as well as with more recent tools for the mapping of mobility (such as HGIS) or the entanglements of communities across space (such as network analysis) in order to explore subjects, objects, motives and consequences of labour mobility in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Middle Ages with a special focus on the Byzantine Empire. In particular we will identify levels and scales (social levels, levels of organisational complexity; scales with regard to geographical distances, to numbers of individuals involved and to frequency, duration and permanence of mobility) as well as motivations and strategies of or towards labour mobility (in their socio-economic, cultural, political or environmental dimension, also with regard to the dichotomy forced/deliberate mobility and the efforts to control mobility by political and social actors). For this purpose, also the mobility of objects and of know-how through human agency will be examined as evidence for the mobility of labour. Thereby, the toolkit of concepts and instruments for the analysis of labour mobility in pre-modern societies will be expanded
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Thsi paper discusses the evolution of the Cypriot economy under its Lusignan rulers, arguing that while in terms of production it remained agricultural, it underwent diversification of the agricultural produce exported, acquired new exports markets throughout the Mediterranean and Black Sea areas and became integrated into the trading networks of Venetian, Genoese and other Western merchants, bnoth as regards the carrying trade between East and West and the export of primary produce.
https://brill.com/view/title/55556 Studies in Global Migration History, Band: 39/13 Edited by Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Lucian Reinfandt und Yannis Stouraitis The transition zone between Africa, Asia and Europe was the most important intersection of human mobility in the medieval period. The present volume for the first time systematically covers migration histories of the regions between the Mediterranean and Central Asia and between Eastern Europe and the Indian Ocean in the centuries from Late Antiquity up to the early modern era. Within this framework, specialists from Byzantine, Islamic, Medieval and African history provide detailed analyses of specific regions and groups of migrants, both elites and non-elites as well as voluntary and involuntary. Thereby, also current debates of migration studies are enriched with a new dimension of deep historical time. Contributors are: Alexander Beihammer, Lutz Berger, Florin Curta, Charalampos Gasparis, George Hatke, Dirk Hoerder, Johannes Koder, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Lucian Reinfandt, Youval Rotman, Yannis Stouraitis, Panayiotis Theodoropoulos, and Myriam Wissa.
This paper discusses the development of trading relations between the kingdoms of Cyprus and Aragonese Sicily from the late thirteenth century onwards, although relations between the two islands themselves go back to the twelfth century. The role of both Catalan and Genoese merchants in developing trade between Sicily and Cyprus in the period under discussion and the impotance of Sicilian grain shipments, to Cyprus in general and to Genoese Famagusta in particular, are underlined.
Migration and Ethnicity in the Venetian territories of the Eastern Mediterranean, 13th-15th cent., in: Μigration histories of the medieval Afroeurasian transition zone. Aspects of mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe. 300-1500 c.e., Johannes Preiser-Kapeller – L. Reinfandt – Y. Stouraitis (eds), Leiden/Boston (BRILL) 2020, 193-221. https://brill.com/view/title/55556
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In this paper the relations between Lusignan Cyprus and the Mamluks of Syria and Egypt are examined with special attention to four distinct but inter-related areas, wafare, diplomacy, cultural and religious exchanges and finally trade and settlement.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37:1 (Winter 2007): 163-95
Ports of Call: Boccaccio’s Alatiel in the Medieval Mediterranean2007 •
Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Medieval Period: The Italians in Anatolia during 12th-15th Centuries
"Rota Fortunae": 13th-14th century Venetian interactions with the Suljuq Sultanate, the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and the Anatolian Beyliks2019 •
in: Union in Separation – Trading Diasporas in the Eastern Mediterranean (1200–1700), hrsg. von Georg Christ, Stefan Burkhardt, Franz Julius Morche und Roberto Zaugg, Rom 2014, S. 498-524.
Churches as ‚Shared Spaces‘ of Latin and Orthodox Christians in the Eastern Mediterranean (14th–15th cent.), in: Union in Separation – Trading Diasporas in the Eastern Mediterranean (1200–1700), hrsg. von Georg Christ, Stefan Burkhardt, Franz Julius Morche und Roberto Zaugg, Rom 2014, S. 498-524.Diplomatics in the Eastern Mediterranean 1000-1500
The Structure And Content Of The Notarial Deeds Of Lamberto Di Sambuceto And Giovanni Da Rocha, 1296–13102008 •
Mediterranean Historical Review
Cyprus and Ragusa (Dubrovnik) 1280-14502002 •
Perspektyvy Kultury/Perspectives on Culture
Crossing Cultural Boundaries in Merchants’ Wills from 14th-Century Cyprus2020 •
Urban Elites and Aristocratic Behaviour in Spanish Kingdoms at the End of the Middle Ages, María ASENJO GONZÁLEZ (dir.), Turnhout, Brepols,
Ruling Class and Long Distance Trade in Barcelona at the End of the Middle Ages2013 •
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Religions 2021, 12(11), 1022
Through the Eyes of a Mapmaker: Maritime Shrines on Cyprus during the Late Middle Ages2021 •
Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies
'A Spectacle to the World, Both to Angels and to Men': Multiculturalism in Medieval Famagusta, Cyprus, as Seen Through the 'Forty Martyrs of Sebaste' Mural.'2013 •
in: Everything is on the Move: The ‘Mamluk Empire’ as a Node in (Trans)Regional Networks (Mamluk Studies 7), ed. Stefan Conermann, Bonn 2014, pp. 127-144
Networks of Greek Orthodox Monks and Clerics between Byzantium and Mamluk Syria and EgyptLegacies of the Crusades
The Formation and Evolution of the Class of Burgesses in the Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus 1192–14742021 •
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The Export of Soap and Olive Oil from the Port of Famagusta in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries2019 •
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A Multi-lingual Island in the Middle Ages: Cyprus of the Lusignan Dynasty
A Multi-lingual Island in the Middle Ages: Cyprus of the Lusignan Dynasty2018 •
Ordres militaires et territorialite au Moyen Age entre Orient et Occident, ed. Marie-Anna Chevalier
FLUCTUATING TERRITORIALITY THE MILITARY ORDERS AND THE CROWN OF CYPRUS: 1191-13132020 •
Wirtschaftsgeschichte der mittelalterlichen Juden
Wirtschaftsgeschichte der mittelalterlichen Juden2008 •
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