Title: Lowell lectures delivered by Robert P. Blake,
Authors: Blake, Robert P. 1886-1950.
Year: 1925
Subjects: Blake, Robert P.; Harvard University Libraries Employees.
Abstract: Accession 18393 : Lowell Lectures included are: (1) The Commerce of the Roman Empire from Augustus to Severi; (II) Oriental Commerce from the Foundation of the Sassanid Kingdom to the end of the Reign of Justinian, 226-565 A.D.; (III) The Conflict Between Rome and Persia and the Rise of Islam; (IV) Commerce between the Levant and the West up Through the Carolingian Period; (V) Commercial Intercourse and Monetary Circulation: The Commercial Supremacy of Byzantium 900-1081; (VI) The Crusades and the Establishment of Italian Commercial Dominance in the Levant; (VII) The Latin Empire, the Mongol Invasion and the Loss of Syria and Palestine. The Character and Distribution of Levantine Commerce, 1204-1291; (VIII) Italian Commercial Dominance in the Levant and its Collapse. The Rise of the Ottoman Turks. Typewritten copies with manuscript annotations.