The Sea: Challenge and Stimulus in the Middle Ages

The sea presented an important economic opportunity in the Middle Ages. The unpredictable risks of sea transport, the incalculability of time and distances opened a chance to those that were able to bridge the sea constantly and regularly and who were able to reduce the transaction costs most efficiently: the merchants of the late medieval ‘German Hansa’. The article will give a short introduction to the mechanisms and principles of international hanseatic trade in the Middle Ages.

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Diana Denissen, Middle English Devotional Compilations: Composing Imaginative Variations in Late Medieval England. (Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages.) Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2019. Pp. x, 141; 2 tables. £70. ISBN: 978-1-7868-3476-8. Marleen Cré, Diana Denissen, and Denis Renevey, eds., Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in England. (Medieval Church Studies 41.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. Pp. xii, 464; 3 color figures. €120. ISBN: 978-2-5035-7477-6. Table of contents available online at http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503574776-1.

Speculum ◽

10.1086/713779 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 96 (2) ◽

pp. 488-491

Author(s):

Alastair Minnis

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Middle English ◽

Medieval England ◽

Late Medieval ◽

Medieval Church ◽

Late Medieval England ◽

Church Studies ◽

The Middle Ages

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Antoine de la Sale, Jean de Saintré: A Late Medieval Education in Love and Chivalry, trans. Roberta L. Krueger and Jane H. M. Taylor. (The Middle Ages.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. xxv, 235; 6 black-and-white figures. $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4586-8.

Speculum ◽

10.1086/686502 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 91 (3) ◽

pp. 809-810

Author(s):

David Joseph Wrisley

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

University Of Pennsylvania ◽

Late Medieval ◽

Black And White ◽

Medieval Education ◽

The Middle Ages

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Od Lopsike do Svetoga Jurja: 700 godina od prvoga prikaza Sv. Jurja na geografskim kartama

Miscellanea Hadriatica et Mediterranea ◽

10.15291/misc.2749 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 181-202

Author(s):

Mithad Kozličić

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Mountain Pass ◽

Historical Source ◽

Late Medieval ◽

First Order ◽

Almost All ◽

Coastal Settlement ◽

The Middle Ages

This paper offers an analysis, based on original cartographic material as a historical source of the first order, of the significance of the settlement situated in the position of today’s Sveti Juraj near Senj as a nexus of overseas and hinterland commerce. It is regarded as a coastal settlement, which entails a port that is a connection between the circulation between merchant goods from the hinterland towards other overseas destinations, as well as goods which arrived by sea traffic in order to be transported to the hinterland market. In that regard it is important that above Senj a mountain pass (Vratnik) is located by which Velebit is traversed. The notorious Bura, however, which shortened the season of navigation, is also a factor. Considering that in antiquity Lopsica was situated there, and that in the Middle Ages Sveti Juraj would mature, it was deemed interesting to consider the shift in the two names of the settlement. For this reason, the problem is examined here up to the Late Medieval era, as later attestations are present on almost all of the available cartographic works of world-famous cartographers. This paper was written in celebration of the 700th anniversary of the affirmation of Sveti Juraj near Senj as a settlement and port in the most important historical cartographic sources.

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