Acccessing the Sea in the Middle Ages

Quantitative Approaches to Mediterranean Mobility
2026
ISBN: 978-3-506-70563-1
Verlag: Brill I Schoeningh

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Mittelmeerstudien

Specific source types provide access to medieval maritime history. This volume assesses them comprehensively. Case studies from the Western, Central and Eastern Mediterranean reveal these records’ potential and ways to exploit them by using quantitative methods.
This volume presents papers from an international conference organised at Heidelberg University in 2024. Its aim is to approach mobility in the medieval Mediterranean in a novel manner: by systematically focussing on administrative sources and by discussing ways of mining them with the help of computational tools. The authors present new technological and methodological means of collecting, retrieving, reassembling, and visualising data. The contributions compellingly reveal the minutia of harbours and ports, navigation and taxation, shipping and sailors. The combination of a close reading of medieval sources and computational methods proves to be an extremely effective way of “Accessing the Sea”.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Burguera, Victòria

Herberich, Laurin

Jaspert, Nikolas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt

Über Autor(innen)

Victòria Burguera-Puigserver is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Balearic Islands. Her research explores late medieval maritime violence, piracy, captivity, and coastal defence systems.
Laurin Herberich is a doctoral candidate at Heidelberg University. Since October 2022, he has been pursuing his research interests in the field of historical data integration, economic history and the history of violence.

Nikolas Jaspert is Professor for Medieval History at the University of Heidelberg. His research focusses on Mediterranean, maritime and marine history, religious communities, and Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages.