Crusading and the Byzantine Legacy in the Northwestern Black Sea Region
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida; Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Organizer Name
Mildred Budny
Organizer Affiliation
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Presider Name
Florin Curta
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of Florida
Paper Title 1
Between Byzantium, the Mongol Empire, Genoa, and Moldavia: Trade Centers in the Northwestern Black Sea Area
Presenter 1 Name
Laurenţiu Rădvan
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. Alexandru Ioan Cuza
Paper Title 2
The Crusade in the Black Sea Region: Discourses, Projects, and Actions from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century
Presenter 2 Name
Ovidiu Cristea
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Institutul de Istorie "Nicolae Iorga"
Paper Title 3
A Plan for the Annihilation of Mehmed II in Moldavia (1475‒1476)
Presenter 3 Name
Liviu Pilat
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. Alexandru Ioan Cuza
Paper Title 4
Warriors' Corpses in the Moldavian Anti-Ottoman War of the Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries
Presenter 4 Name
Bodgan-Petru Maleon
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. Alexandru Ioan Cuza
Start Date
12-5-2016 10:00 AM
Session Location
Fetzer 1060
Description
During the first Three Crusades, the Black Sea remained outside the main routes along which the crusading armies moved towards the Holy Land, even though many of them crossed the Balkans and Asia Minor. The situation changed dramatically in the early 13th century, after the conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade. With the rise in 1204 of the Latin Empire and the disintegration of Byzantine hegemony in the Black Sea region, “Western” hopes of recovering Jerusalem were placed on hold and a new phase opened in the history of the Crusades. From the establishment of the Latin Empire in the early 13th century to the Ottoman conquest in the 15th, the region of the Black Sea lay at the center of a major clash of powers, with a history most complicated. Byzantines, Mongols, Seljuq Turks from the emirates of Menteshe and Aydin, and then Ottoman Turks — all were influenced by later Crusade projects and strategies. In contrast with the passagium generale so typical for the first Crusades, later crusading in the Black Sea region was a passagium particularewith more limited goals, involving powers in the area.
The session will draw attention to this sphere of crusading, neglected until now. The purpose is to present several case studies of Crusade perception and comprehension, as viewed from small political actors such as the 14th– and 15th-century principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. This quest makes it possible to show how both states, although Orthodox Christian and thus, if not outright hostile, at least cautious about the goals of the crusading movement, developed specific policies aimed at resisting Ottoman encroachment.
Details and developments appear on the website of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence: http://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2016-international-congress-on-medieval-studies/
Crusading and the Byzantine Legacy in the Northwestern Black Sea Region
Fetzer 1060
During the first Three Crusades, the Black Sea remained outside the main routes along which the crusading armies moved towards the Holy Land, even though many of them crossed the Balkans and Asia Minor. The situation changed dramatically in the early 13th century, after the conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade. With the rise in 1204 of the Latin Empire and the disintegration of Byzantine hegemony in the Black Sea region, “Western” hopes of recovering Jerusalem were placed on hold and a new phase opened in the history of the Crusades. From the establishment of the Latin Empire in the early 13th century to the Ottoman conquest in the 15th, the region of the Black Sea lay at the center of a major clash of powers, with a history most complicated. Byzantines, Mongols, Seljuq Turks from the emirates of Menteshe and Aydin, and then Ottoman Turks — all were influenced by later Crusade projects and strategies. In contrast with the passagium generale so typical for the first Crusades, later crusading in the Black Sea region was a passagium particularewith more limited goals, involving powers in the area.
The session will draw attention to this sphere of crusading, neglected until now. The purpose is to present several case studies of Crusade perception and comprehension, as viewed from small political actors such as the 14th– and 15th-century principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. This quest makes it possible to show how both states, although Orthodox Christian and thus, if not outright hostile, at least cautious about the goals of the crusading movement, developed specific policies aimed at resisting Ottoman encroachment.
Details and developments appear on the website of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence: http://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2016-international-congress-on-medieval-studies/