Horse and cargo handling on Medieval Mediterranean ships |
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Authors: | Lillian Ray Martin |
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Affiliation: | 8419 Cornerwood Drive, Austin, TX 78711–5342, USA |
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Abstract: | The history of ships and boats is filled out through three forms of evidence: archaeological discoveries, textual sources, and a corpus of artistic images. Art from Venice and Ravenna in north-east Italy and the Topkapi Museum in Instanbul, Turkey, offers keys to understanding several questions of Medieval ship-loading practices in the Mediterranean, including cargo loading, and where the war-horse entered his Crusader's ship. |
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Keywords: | Medieval Mediterranean maritime history Crusader horse transportation stevedore nautical archaeology ship iconography |
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