This week's host, Sally Gordon, discusses the Pactum Warmundi, a twelfth century treaty between the city-state of Venice and the Kingdom of Jerusalem. This agreement laid the groundwork for Italian colonial settlements in the Holy Land and represents a major landmark in the history of Mediterranean mercantile history. But how did the Pactum Warmundi come about? Why was it so important, and how did it work? (the text of the Pactum Warmundi, as copied into the Chronicle of William of Tyre, can be found in the 1943 translation of Emily Atwater Babcock and Augustus C. Krey. To read it, click here.)
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Once again we bring you a series of podcasts devoted to the history and culture of the Crusader States. This time the podcast series focuses on the sources for the study of the Frankish Levant. We will cover a wide variety of sources, from trade agreements to law codes, the memoirs of poets and squires, the images that still adorn the walls of churches in Jerusalem. What can these words and images tell us about the society established in the wake of the crusades? How have they been read in the past, and how should we read them today? Tune in to find out!
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