The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe by George Holmes

Author:George Holmes [Holmes, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780198200734
Google: nbxmAAAAMAAJ
Amazon: 0192854356
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1988-05-18T14:00:00+00:00

The eleventh-century chronicle of John Scylitzes (here in a thirteenth-century illustrated manuscript), describes the Muslim sack of Thessalonica in 904. The reconquest of Crete (961) and Cyprus (965), part of the Byzantine counter-attack, ended serious raiding in the Aegean.

Scenes of Byzantine rural life. The Prodigal Son, having herded swine, returns to his father, portrayed in the guise of a provincial aristocrat of the eleventh century. Vine-trimmers tend one of the major sources of agricultural investment, whilst oxen draw the Mediterranean ‘scratch’ plough, particularly suited to dry areas as it did not turn over furrows and thus preserved moisture in the soil. Fishing, often with lights to attract the shoals, provided protein in a diet in which meat was scarce.

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