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Jackson, Richard Paul.

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"Ma misi me per l'alto mare aperto": Mediterranean seamen during the medieval commercial revolution.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Ma misi me per l'alto mare aperto": Mediterranean seamen during the medieval commercial revolution./
Author:	Jackson, Richard Paul.
Description:	272 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-10, Section: A, page: 3638.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International53-10A.
Subject:	History, Medieval. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9306949

"Ma misi me per l'alto mare aperto": Mediterranean seamen during the medieval commercial revolution.
Jackson, Richard Paul.

"Ma misi me per l'alto mare aperto": Mediterranean seamen during the medieval commercial revolution. - 272 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-10, Section: A, page: 3638.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 1992.

This dissertation offers new insights into the causes of a dramatic rise and fall in the status of Mediterranean sailors over the course of the Middle Ages. Chronologically, the investigation focuses on the twelfth to fourteenth centuries; geographically, it encompasses the major Christian ports of the western Mediterranean, but devotes greatest attention to the communes of northern Italy, and especially Genoa, a city whose archives yielded an extensive wage series. The first chapter explains how in the early Middle Ages control over the maritime venture passed from land-bound shipping magnates into the hands of sea-captains and their crews--a development that greatly enhanced their economic importance and social prestige. Presenting a panorama of the Mediterranean maritime world at the height of the medieval commercial revolution, the second chapter discusses the participation of seamen in the entire spectrum of seagoing activities, from trade to warfare. The remainder of the dissertation explores currents of economic and social change among later-medieval seafarers, elucidating the origins and dynamics of a crisis that overtook the Mediterranean maritime community. Chapter 3 takes up this task by examining a previously unappreciated dimension of the story of medieval seamen: the transformation of deckhands from profit-sharing partners into salaried employees in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Pisa, Barcelona, Venice, and Genoa. Making extensive use of unpublished notarial acts, Chapter 4 discusses additional changes in seafaring life during the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that further compromised the status of common sailors and caused widespread desertion and social unrest. The final chapter turns to the economic underpinnings of that crisis. It argues that, between the late thirteenth and mid-fourteenth centuries, trends in supply and demand exerted downward pressures on both sea-captains' profits and sailors' wages. Among the dissertation's key conclusions is that the crisis in the Mediterranean maritime community antedated the economic dislocations triggered by the Black Death; the great depression of the later Middle Ages exacerbated that crisis, but it did not cause it.Subjects--Topical Terms:

925067
History, Medieval.

"Ma misi me per l'alto mare aperto": Mediterranean seamen during the medieval commercial revolution.
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