The continuous domination of the Mediterranean by the great thalassocracies - Phoenicia, Greece and Rome - left only limited "maritime space" for neighboring peoples such as the Jews. Jewish presence in the port- cities around the Mediterranean during the Greco-Roman era mode, nevertheless, the practice of navigation indispensable for survival and for contacts between communities. This situation is reflected in the ambivalent approach ofJudaism to navigation on the one hand, and the adoption of maritime symbols in the Bible, in the literature and in the iconography of Palestine, on the other. Jewish authors inspired by Greco-Roman culture show the attraction of rulers like Simon Maccabaeus and Herod to the sea in a particular historical con...
As part of NTT JTSR’s series on Key Texts, the present article discusses DavidAbulafia’s monograph T...
This paper takes a good look at the Mediterraneans in their environment, their qualities and defects...
Over the past decades, modern technologies such as electronic navigational aids, improved ship desig...
The continuous domination of the Mediterranean by the great thalassocracies - Phoenicia, Greece and ...
Between the XIIIth century and the XVIIth century, a specific nautical vocabulary is building, vocab...
Les navires de commerce romains apparaissent comme de véritables sanctuaires flottants où les signes...
Cette thèse examine la relation des Maghrébins avec la mer au Moyen Âge et son rôle dans l’enrichiss...
Between the XIIIth century and the XVIIth century, a specific nautical vocabulary is building, vocab...
Rome, loin de n’être qu’une puissance continentale, a très tôt compris ce que pouvait lui apporter l...
After their expulsion from Spain and Portugal, the Sefardic Jews who had never shown a great interes...
« Vetus Israel »: The Jews in Hierosolymitan literature in the Byzantine period The transformation...
The image of the sea and Aegean islands in ancient literature and, to a certain extent, in contempor...
A recent resurgence of interest in the field of ancient geography and navigation has led to a need t...
Most of the Jew traders from Leghorn came to Tuscany by sea when they fled Spain and Portugal. Howev...
Nous effectuons dans notre présent travail une étude comparative de plusieurs œuvres romanesques mar...
As part of NTT JTSR’s series on Key Texts, the present article discusses DavidAbulafia’s monograph T...
This paper takes a good look at the Mediterraneans in their environment, their qualities and defects...
Over the past decades, modern technologies such as electronic navigational aids, improved ship desig...
The continuous domination of the Mediterranean by the great thalassocracies - Phoenicia, Greece and ...
Between the XIIIth century and the XVIIth century, a specific nautical vocabulary is building, vocab...
Les navires de commerce romains apparaissent comme de véritables sanctuaires flottants où les signes...
Cette thèse examine la relation des Maghrébins avec la mer au Moyen Âge et son rôle dans l’enrichiss...
Between the XIIIth century and the XVIIth century, a specific nautical vocabulary is building, vocab...
Rome, loin de n’être qu’une puissance continentale, a très tôt compris ce que pouvait lui apporter l...
After their expulsion from Spain and Portugal, the Sefardic Jews who had never shown a great interes...
« Vetus Israel »: The Jews in Hierosolymitan literature in the Byzantine period The transformation...
The image of the sea and Aegean islands in ancient literature and, to a certain extent, in contempor...
A recent resurgence of interest in the field of ancient geography and navigation has led to a need t...
Most of the Jew traders from Leghorn came to Tuscany by sea when they fled Spain and Portugal. Howev...
Nous effectuons dans notre présent travail une étude comparative de plusieurs œuvres romanesques mar...
As part of NTT JTSR’s series on Key Texts, the present article discusses DavidAbulafia’s monograph T...
This paper takes a good look at the Mediterraneans in their environment, their qualities and defects...
Over the past decades, modern technologies such as electronic navigational aids, improved ship desig...