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
This eloquently written, accessible, and well-argued monograph
makes an innovative contribution from a fresh perspective to the
study of the pre-modern Mediterranean.
*AL-MASAQ*
[R]epresents a painstaking effort to piece together information
from disparate sources of varied provenience into an exceptionally
accurate and comprehensive, yet brief and readable survey of
Latin-Turkish interactions in the fourteenth-century Aegean. This
book will serve scholars in research and teaching for a long
time.
*INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TURKISH STUDIES*
[M]akes especially interesting use of petitions and supplications
to the pope for exemptions from trade embargoes and the
relationship of these dispensations to crusading projects . also
draws on a wide variety of other sources, both narrative and
otherwise . Scholars interested in the later crusades, maritime
warfare, trade between Christians and Muslims, and the Aegean
region will all find interesting food for thought here.
*THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW*
Mike Carr has written a monograph designed to 'cut across the
subgenres of economic and crusading history' (p 6). He qualifies
and corrects common assumptions about the conduct of the Crusades
by revealing profound diversity among Islamic actors on one hand,
and rivalries both subtle and profound within Greek and Latin
Christianity on the other.
*DE RE MILITARI*
[An] innovative perspective . By pitting interfaith conflict
against the backdrop of the larger Mediterranean world in which it
was happening, Carr makes a compelling case for the 'merchant
crusader,' one that ought to be considered in other theaters in
which the crusading phenomenon occurred.
*H-WAR*
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