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Horse and cargo handling on Medieval Mediterranean ships

. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 31 (2): 237--241 (2002)
DOI: doi:10.1111/j.1095-9270.2002.tb01417.x

Abstract

The history of ships and boats is filled out through three forms of evidence: archaeological discoveries, textual sources, and a corpus of artistic images. Art from Venice and Ravenna in north-east Italy and the Topkapi Museum in Instanbul, Turkey, offers keys to understanding several questions of Medieval ship-loading practices in the Mediterranean, including cargo loading, and where the war-horse entered his Crusader's ship.

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