A recent book comes to us from the Medieval Review:
Benes, Carrie E., ed.
A Companion to Medieval Genoa. Brill's Companions to European History, 15. Leiden: Brill, 2018. Pp. xxvii, 560. $229.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-36061-7.
Reviewed by Laura K. Morreale
Independent Scholar
And the first paragraph makes it sound so, so attractive:
On page one of chapter
seventeen, entitled "Genoa and the Crusade," author Merav Mack argues
that "Genoese history is a narrative not of one city but of distant but
closely-linked parts of the Mediterranean"
(471). Although this statement appears near the collection's end, it
neatly encapsulates editor Carrie Benes's vision throughout
A Companion to Medieval Genoa, a work that emphasizes connections
between the Genoese local and remote, comprehensively fleshed out in
the book's maps, figures, glossary, and eighteen essay-length chapters.
Now in real life, I could never afford this -- well, maybe if I studied Italy-- but I admire the editor and the article authors for the ambition of their enterprise. In a different lifetime I might have written works that emphasized connections "of distant but closely-linked parts" of the Mediterranean and other regions.
Image: Genoa as a top Mediterranean port today.
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