Week11. Nov 16-18 RENAISSANCE

RENAISSANCE

Eurasian Connectivity: From Crusades to the Renaissance, c.1100-1500.

Theme: Chinggisid and post-Mongol regimes produce more expansive, influential, profitable connections all across Eurasia.

Video19 with slides (1:02): “Mongol Centuries, Renaissance, and Commercial Capitalism.” (Slides only) 

Reading: 

Thomas Asbridge, Traders and Crusaders, BBC History magazine.

Virgil Ciociltan. The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, Brill, 2012, (Ebook), pp.37-60.

Jerry Brotton, The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp.33-60. 

Matthew Romaniello, “Transregional Trade in Early Modern Eurasia,” OREAH. (12pp)

Eric Tagliacozzo, “An Urban Ocean: Notes on the Historical Evolution of Coastal Cities in Greater Southeast Asia.” Journal of Urban History, 33, 6, 2007, 911–932. (Online PDF) https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144207304035

Giorgio Riello, Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World. Cambridge University Press, 2013. (Ebook), p.59-86.

Reference: 

Columbia University Mongols in World History Website

Celine Dauverd, Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Genoese Merchants and the Spanish Crown. Cambridge University Press, 2014. (Here is online PDF of useful Conclusion, pp.248-261)
 
Celine Dauverd, “Cultivating Differences: Genoese Trade Identity in the Constantinople of Sultan Mehmed II, 1453–81.” Mediterranean Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 2015, pp. 91–124. (PDF online)
 
Gherardo Ortalli, “Venice and Papal Bans on Trade with the Levant: The Role of the Jurist,” Mediterranean Historical Review  Volume 10, 1995 – Issue 1-2, vol. 10, no. 1–2, 1995, pp. 242–58. (online PDF)
 
Nicola Di Cosmo, Black Sea Emporia, Journal of the Economic and

Social History of the Orient, 53, 2010, 83-108.

“Historical Diffusion of Paper Making,” (online PDF) Chapter 3 in Mobilities of Knowledge, edited by Heike Jöns, et al., Springer, 2017  (ebook link to chapter), pp.51-66.

Tamara Bently, “Trade in the East and South China Seas.“(10pp)

Tansen Sen, “The Impact of Zheng He’s Expeditions on Indian Ocean interactions,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79, 3, 2016, 609-636. (online PDF)

Anthony Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680. Yale University Press, 1990.

Rosamund Mack, Bazar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600, Berkeley; UCal Press, 2002. 

Roxann Prazniak: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2019. Bobst DS19.p73.2019.

Lichtensetin, Nelson. “The Return of Merchant Capitalism.” International Labor and Working-Class History, vol. 12, no. Spring, 2012, pp. 8–27.
 

Elizabeth Lambourn, “Towards a connected History of Equine Cultures in South Asia: Bahri (Sea) Horses and ’Horsemania’ in Thirteenth Century South India,” The Medieval Globe, 2, 1, 2016, in pp.57-100 (PDF online)

Individual Weeks in full syllabus: Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

LINK TO WEEK 12