Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2023.2261295
Christopher Heath
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2023.2249643
Paolo Tedesco, Merle Eisenberg, Jamie Wood
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2023.2261294
Chloé Capel
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Pub Date : 2023-08-09DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2023.2236908
Ana Patrícia Magalhães
ABSTRACTIn Antiquity, coasts witnessed the growth of cities and the expansion of a range of different economic activities due to the maritime networks with which they were associated. Late Antiquity in Lusitania was a period of change, mainly as a result of adaptation to the socio-political events that determined different commercial flows within each region. These variations are very well identified in harbour areas with intense commercial activity. New ceramic contexts and the revisiting of existing data have resulted in the extension of the chronology of the occupation of many coastal sites into the sixth and seventh centuries, demonstrating that commerce and trade in Lusitania did not end, as previously thought, in the fifth century with the arrival of Vandals, Sueves and Visigoths. This article explores evidence for how populations lived on the edge, on the banks of rivers and along the Atlantic coast, while remaining attached to long-distance trading networks during this period.KEYWORDS: Late AntiquityLusitania; Roman portsSado estuaryfish-saltingtrade Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Correction StatementThis article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article.Notes1 Carlos Fabião, “A Antiguidade tardia e a desagregação do Império”, in História de Portugal dos tempos pré-históricos aos nossos dias, volume III, ed. João Medina (Amadora: Ediclube, 1993), pp. 11–32; idem, “O comércio dos produtos da Lusitânia transportados em ânforas no Baixo Império”, in Ocupação romana dos estuários do Tejo e do Sado: Actas das primeiras jornadas sobre romanização dos estuários do Tejo e do Sado, ed. Graça Filipe and Jorge Raposo (Lisbon: Câmara Municipal do Seixal and Publicações D. Quixote, 1996), pp. 329–42; idem, “A dimensão atlântica da Lusitânia: Periferia ou charneira no Império Romano”, in Lusitânia Romana: Entre o mito e realidade [Actas da VI mesa-redonda internacional sobre a Lusitânia Romana (Cascais, 2004)], ed. Jean Gerard Gorges, José d’Encarnação, Trinidad Nogales Basarrate, and António Carvalho (Cascais: Câmara Municipal de Cascais, 2009), pp. 53–74.2 Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).3 Adolfo Fernández Fernández, El comercio tardoantiguo (ss.IV–VII) en el Noroeste peninsular a través del registro cerámico de la Ría de Vigo [Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery, volume V] (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2014).4 José Carlos Quaresma and Rui Morais, “Eastern Late Roman Fine Ware Imports in Bracara Augusta (Braga, Portugal)”, Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum Acta 42 (2012): 373–83.5 The author of the present article is completing a doctoral research project on the Roman occupation of the lower Sado River harbour ensemble.6 Catarina Viegas, “Les céramiques tardives dans les sites du sud-ouest de la Péninsule Ibérique (Algarve – Portugal)”, in Late Roman Coarse Wares, Coo
在古代，由于海洋网络的联系，海岸见证了城市的发展和一系列不同经济活动的扩张。卢西塔尼亚的古代晚期是一个变化的时期，主要是由于适应了社会政治事件，这些事件决定了每个地区不同的商业流动。这些变化在商业活动密集的海港地区非常明显。新的陶瓷背景和对现有资料的重新审视导致了许多沿海遗址被占领的年表延伸到六世纪和七世纪，这表明卢西塔尼亚的商业和贸易并没有像之前认为的那样，在五世纪随着Vandals, Sueves和西哥特人的到来而结束。这篇文章探讨了在这一时期，人们是如何生活在边缘、河岸和大西洋沿岸的，同时又与长途贸易网络保持联系的。关键词:古埃及;披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。这篇文章经过了细微的修改。这些变化不影响文章的学术内容。注1卡洛斯·法比伊<e:1>奥，“防止污染的准则”，载于História de Portugal dos tempos pré-históricos aos nossos dias，第三卷，jo<e:1> o麦地那编(阿马多拉:Ediclube出版社，1993年)，第11-32页;idem，“<s:1> <s:1> <s:1> <s:1>通讯通讯条例条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例与<s:1>通讯通讯条例”，格拉<s:1>拉菲利佩和豪尔赫·拉波索编(里斯本:哥斯达黎加塞萨尔市和Publicações吉诃德，1996年)，第329-42页;2 .布莱恩·沃德·帕金斯，《罗马的衰微与文明的终结》(牛津:牛津大学出版社，2005)，《罗马的衰微与文明的终结》，见《罗马的衰微与文明的终结》，见《罗马的衰微与文明的终结》，见《罗马的衰微与文明的终结》，见《罗马的衰微与文明的终结》，见《罗马的衰微与文明的终结》，见《罗马的衰微与文明的终结》，见《罗马的衰微与文明的终结》，见《罗马的衰微与文明的终结》3 . Adolfo Fernández Fernández, El comercio tardoantiguo (s . iv - vii) en El Noroeste半岛a travacos del registro cerámico de la Ría de Vigo[古罗马和晚期古地中海陶器，卷五](牛津:古出版社，2014)jos<s:1> Carlos Quaresma和Rui Morais，“brbracara Augusta (Braga, Portugal)的东方晚期罗马精美陶器进口”，Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum Acta 42(2012): 373-83.5 .本文作者正在完成一项关于罗马占领萨多河下游港口群的博士研究项目卡塔琳娜·维加斯，“Les cmacimiques tardives dans Les sites du suds -ouest de la paciminsule ibsrique(阿尔加维-葡萄牙)”，载于《地中海晚期罗马粗陶器、炊具和双口罐:考古学和考古计量学》第二卷，米歇尔·波尼菲和让-克里斯特·特拉西亚编辑[BAR，国际系列，卷MDCLXII (II)](牛津:古出版社，2007)，第71-84.7页。8 .研究所Português de Arqueologia, 2002)Concilios visigóticos e hispano-romanos，编，jos<s:1> Vives(马德里:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1963)，第136、288、343、432、474、521.9 Viegas，“c<s:1> ramiques tardives”，74.10 Edgar Fernandes，“来自葡萄牙阿尔加维奥索诺巴(法罗)的五、六世纪非洲红滑梯和晚期罗马C陶器:来自Horta da的汇编Misericórdia”，《罗马陶器研究杂志》17 (2018):92-109.11Importações ceralmicas”，收录于西班牙罗马[第四届半岛建筑学大会，法鲁，2004]，jo<e:1> o Pedro Bernardes主编(法鲁:阿尔加维大学，2008)，215-31.12页费利克斯·泰希纳。建筑与建筑工程中心:建筑与建筑工程中心(economía) -建筑与建筑工程中心(römischen)[卢西塔尼亚研究中心，卷三](罗马国家艺术博物馆，2008).14Idem，“Cerro da Vila: Paleo-estuário, aglomera<e:1> O secundária e centro de transforma<e:1> O de recursos marítimos”，Setúbal Arqueológica 13(2006): 79-80，图11.15 Joao Pedro Bernardes，“古代晚期(公元5至7世纪)南卢西塔尼亚农村世界的生产结构”，载于O Sudoeste半岛entre Roma e O Islam -罗马和伊斯兰教之间的伊比利亚西南部半岛，编辑。Susana Gómez Martínez, Santiago Macias和Virgílio Lopes (m<s:1> rtola:Campo Arqueológico, 2014)，第378-81页。 16玛丽安娜·埃德加-费尔南德斯,亚历山德拉Gradim“Le commerce méditerranéen苏尔雷斯网站ruraux洛杉矶Lusitanie méridionale在l’Antiquitétardive:勒卡斯d’链接(用来)”,葡萄牙,Antiquae 10(2013): 173—222年在圣佩德罗Bernardes,世界末日的“转
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Pub Date : 2015-05-04DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2015.1049425
J. Wood
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Pub Date : 2015-05-04DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2015.1049421
Wim De Clercq, Jonas Braekevelt, J. Coll Conesa, H. Kaçar, Josep Vicente Lerma, Jan Dumolyn
Abstract Excavation of the mid-fifteenth-century castle of Pieter Bladelin, a high-ranking Burgundian official, in the village of Middelburg-in-Flanders, near Bruges (Belgium), has unearthed a remarkable series of blue and white painted and glazed floor tiles. Post-excavation archival and heraldic inquiries into the tiles has led to a deeper understanding of the role that gift exchange of luxury objects played within the diplomatic network of Alfonso V “the Magnanimous”, King of Aragon, and Philip “the Good”, Duke of Burgundy, in shaping a shared chivalric and crusading culture between Burgundy and Aragon. The study demonstrates the added value of the integration of archaeological and historical data in studying economic, political and cultural processes for the later medieval or early modern period.
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Pub Date : 2015-05-04DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2015.1049428
Patrizia Sardina
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Pub Date : 2015-05-04DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2015.1049418
Nicholas Morton
Abstract This article contributes to the important debate over the conversion of the Turks to Islam. Previously, it was thought that the Turks abandoned their former steppe faith and customs very swiftly to become staunch Sunni Muslims, but this view has recently been challenged by a number of studies. The current consensus seems to be that the Turks’ adoption of Islam was a process of far longer duration, spanning many decades. This article broadens this discussion by demonstrating that the chronicles written by the First Crusaders contain much useful information that is pertinent to this question. It works through these texts, showing that they can shed new light on this point.
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Pub Date : 2015-05-04DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2015.1049429
F. Forte
ted to the transformation of the city into a centre of consumption that imported luxury goods and a commercial centre for exporting, chartering and insuring ships. According to Bresc, the main effects of these dual developments were the decline of artisanal production, the impoverishment of technical knowledge and the reinforcement of feudal aristocracy. In his essay on religious Palermo in the section on “Transversal Approaches” Bresc reconstructs the ecclesiastical landscape and examines the evolution of piety and devotion between the sixth/twelfth and the ninth/fifteenth centuries, processes which “brought Palermo closer to the other Italian cities” (p. 379). In “Transversal Approaches”, there are five essays, each of which analyses the longer term development of a particular theme from the fifth/eleventh to the ninth/fifteenth century. Laura Sciascia gives a vivid and evocative image of political changes in Sicily from the Norman conquest in 465/1072 to the visit of Charles V of Spain in 942/ 1535. Palermo was used as a theatre where the rituals of coronation, cavalcades, funerals and royal weddings became stages and mirrors that underlined moments of crucial importance for the history of Sicily. In his exhaustive and well-articulated essay on the Jewish community of Palermo, GiuseppeMandalà analyses the settlement, juridical and fiscal status, productive and economic activities, cultural life and topography of the city’s Jews. Gian Luca Borghese’s essay about foreigners in Palermo, Sulamith Brodbeck’s study on Monreale and Benoit Grevin’s essay on linguistic cultures and textual production in Palermo complete the “Transversal Approaches” section. In conclusion, this book is of great interest and its main value lies in having analysed in a novel and scholarly way the economic and urban transformation of Palermo from an imperial province to the capital of a kingdom between the Byzantine and Norman periods. Less attention is given to Aragonese Palermo, best known and well studied in the past by Italian and foreign historians. Indicative bibliography is essentially based on books about Byzantine, Islamic and Norman history. The most original section is “Transversal Approaches” because it allows non-specialists to follow the evolution of some relevant topics across the long term in an effective manner, combining scientific rigour with a clear exposition.
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