Genoa, 'la Superba'
Title | Genoa, 'la Superba' PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Walton |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1849045127 |
Tells the story of Genoa's journey from obscurity to its status as a merchant-pirate superpower that helped create the medieval world
Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528
Title | Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528 PDF eBook |
Author | Steven A. Epstein |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780807849927 |
A history of Genoa, tracing the city's transformation from an obscure port into the capital of a small but thriving republic with an extensive overseas empire. Covering six centuries, the text interweaves political events, economic trends, social conditions and cultural accomplishments.
Genoa
Title | Genoa PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Metcalf |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781566893923 |
The 50th anniversary edition of Metcalf's extraordinary novel, a reckoning with Columbus, America, myth, and his great-grandfather Herman Melville.
Genoa. How the Republic Rose and Fell
Title | Genoa. How the Republic Rose and Fell PDF eBook |
Author | James Theodore Bent |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 2024-04-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3385435730 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region
Title | The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region PDF eBook |
Author | Evgeny Khvalkov |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 2017-07-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351623060 |
This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of continuity of the colonial patterns, reveals the importance of the formation of the late medieval / early modern colonialism, the urban demography, and the functioning of the polyethnic entangled society of Caffa in its interaction with the outer world. It offers a novel interpretation of the functioning of this late medieval colonial polyethnic society and rejects the widely accepted narrative portraying the whole history of Caffa of the fifteenth century as a period of constant decline and depopulation.
Genoa's Freedom
Title | Genoa's Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Matteo Salonia |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2017-02-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1498534228 |
This book investigates the economic, intellectual and political history of late medieval and early modern Genoa and the historical origins of the Genoese presence in the Spanish Atlantic. Salonia describes Genoa’s late medieval economic expansion and commercial networks through several case studies, from the Black Sea to southern England, and briefly compares it to the state-run military expansion of Venice’s empire. The author links the adaptability and entrepreneurial skills of Genoese merchants and businessmen to the constitutional history of the Genoese commune and to the specific idea of freedom progressively protected by its constitutions and embodied by institutions like the Bank of St. George. Moreover, this book offers an unprecedented account of the actions with which Ferdinand the Catholic protected Genoese merchants in his dominions and of the later, mutual understanding between the Genoese community and emperor Charles V during the Italian Wars, and in particular during the 1520s. These developments in Hispanic-Genoese diplomatic and economic relations are of great significance. The sixteenth-century Hispanic-Genoese alliance is important to understand the characteristics of Habsburg governance and the resilience of Genoa’s republican conservatism. Genoa’s republicanism (based on private wealth and private arms) contradicts historiographical narratives that assume the inevitability of the emergence of the modern, militarized and centralized state. It also shows the inadequacy of Tuscan-centric historical accounts of Renaissance republicanism. The last chapter of the book reveals the consequences of the 1528 Hispanic-Genoese alliance by considering case studies that illustrate the Genoese presence in the Spanish Americas, from Chile to Mexico, since the early stages of conquest and settlement.
Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon
Title | Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Zipser |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2013-12-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 8376560239 |
“Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon”, an edited volume based on the conference held on March 17th, 2012, is part of the Simon Online project – a dynamically growing Wiki edition of Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis, a Latin-Greek-Arabic medical dictionary from the late 13th century. In the individual articles, written by well-known scholars, authorities in their fields of research, Simon and his major work, are approached from different perspectives and as a whole. The volume offers a comprehensible and well-balanced collection of current research on Simon and Clavis sanationis. The volume demonstrates the importance of the Clavis, not only for the history of pharmacology and medicine, but also for Byzantine and medieval studies, Roman, Greek, Latin and Arabic philology and lexicography. Barbara Zipser (Doctor of Philosophy, Wellcome Trust University Award 2006, 2010) is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture, History Department, Royal Holloway University of London. Her main field of research is Greek medicine from Galen to the late Middle Ages, with an emphasis on textual criticism, manuscript transmission, and the formation of Greek vernacular terminology. Dr Zipser is a well-known and promising young scholar in the field of Ancient and Medieval Medicine. She runs Simon Online (http://www.simonofgenoa.org) – the joint edition and translation project of Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis, a dictionary of Latin, Greek and Arabic medical terminology in Wiki format.