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Presenting medieval Pisa in a multidisciplinary study, A Companion to Medieval Pisa provides a comprehensive overview of the city at the time of its greatest fame and prosperity. The volume addresses central aspects of the city’s history: its geomorphology and orientation towards the Mediterranean Sea; its ancient past; the archaeological basis for the study of the medieval city and its built environment; Pisa’s urban and port infrastructure; its social organization and political and economic history; its cultural achievements in the visual and literary arts; and the legacy of the medieval past for the city today.
Contributors are: David Abulafia, Monica Bini, Veronica Rossi, Stefano Bruni, Antonio Alberti, Gabriele Gattiglia, Alma Poloni, Giuseppe Petralia, Gabriella Garzella, Ewa Karwacka Codini, Cédric Quertier, Michele Campopiano, Michel Balard, Fabio Redi, Olimpia Vaccari, Mauro Ronzani, Maria Luisa Ceccarelli Lemut, Ottavio Banti, Marco Collareta, Karen Rose Mathews, Cristina Cagianelli, and Franco Cardini.
Contributors are: David Abulafia, Monica Bini, Veronica Rossi, Stefano Bruni, Antonio Alberti, Gabriele Gattiglia, Alma Poloni, Giuseppe Petralia, Gabriella Garzella, Ewa Karwacka Codini, Cédric Quertier, Michele Campopiano, Michel Balard, Fabio Redi, Olimpia Vaccari, Mauro Ronzani, Maria Luisa Ceccarelli Lemut, Ottavio Banti, Marco Collareta, Karen Rose Mathews, Cristina Cagianelli, and Franco Cardini.
Price: $277.00
Pages: 626
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Companions to European History
Publication Date:
28 April 2022
ISBN: 9789004382589
Format: Hardcover
Karen Rose Mathews, Ph.D. (1995), University of Chicago, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Miami. She has published numerous articles on Mediterranean visual culture and a recent monograph, Conflict, Commerce, and an Aesthetic of Appropriation in the Italian Maritime Cities, 1000-1150 (Brill, 2018).
Silvia Orvietani Busch, Ph.D. (1996), University of California, Los Angeles, is an Associate Scholar at the UCLA CMRS-Center for Early Global Studies. She has published several articles on the Mediterranean Middle Ages and a monograph, Medieval Mediterranean Ports. The Catalan and Tuscan Coasts, 1100 to 1235 (Brill, 2001).
Stefano Bruni, Ph.D. (1991), Universities of Pisa, Firenze, and Siena, is Professor of Etruscology and Italic Archaeology at the University of Ferrara. He has published on Etruscan civilization and the history of its collections, including Pisa la città delle navi. Il porto urbano di Pisa etrusca e romana dallo scavo al museo(ETS, 2003).
Silvia Orvietani Busch, Ph.D. (1996), University of California, Los Angeles, is an Associate Scholar at the UCLA CMRS-Center for Early Global Studies. She has published several articles on the Mediterranean Middle Ages and a monograph, Medieval Mediterranean Ports. The Catalan and Tuscan Coasts, 1100 to 1235 (Brill, 2001).
Stefano Bruni, Ph.D. (1991), Universities of Pisa, Firenze, and Siena, is Professor of Etruscology and Italic Archaeology at the University of Ferrara. He has published on Etruscan civilization and the history of its collections, including Pisa la città delle navi. Il porto urbano di Pisa etrusca e romana dallo scavo al museo(ETS, 2003).