Though recent scholarship has investigated many aspects of the Virgin's cult in Byzantium, the Visitation has been entirely overlooked with respect to both its theological significance and its popularity in pre-iconoclastic art. My research examines textual sources such as bibli…
Bohemond of Taranto has been painted by modern scholars as an opportunistic knight who embarked for the east from Sicily with the Latin armies of the First Crusade in order to acquire a significant lordship for himself. However, the details of his early life and other factors wh…
Between the crusades and Columbus, the Genoese maritime empire centered in the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea transformed into a financial empire based on the Iberian peninsula. From the thirteenth century, Mongol, Mamluk, Turcoman, and Latin formations carved out Byzan…