Emily Sohmer Tai
Biographic Data
| ID | 5647675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Sohmer Tai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily Sohmer |
| FAMILY NAME | Tai |
| SIGNATURE | TAI E S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensborough Community College, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender and Status Competition in Pre-Modern Societies
Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily
Marking Water Piracy and Property in the Premodern West
Held to Account
This article draws upon legal sources and archival records from Barcelona, Venice, and Genoa to study the experience of scribes in the medieval Mediterranean. Just as Chaucer or Dante may have feared the scribe's power to alter compositions, so, too, did scribes excite apprehension among medieval agents of commerce. The weighty responsibilities assigned to scribes presented significant temptations for illicit enrichment, as well as risks, aboard …
What is Global History? by Sebastian Conrad
The Legal Status of Piracy in Medieval Europe
This article discusses the history of maritime theft, or piracy, in medieval Europe, not so much as a crime but rather as a case study in legal pluralism: the operation of competing systems of law across a common region. Although scholarship has often interpreted sources for medieval European piracy through the filter of early modern conditions, the parameters of how disputes over piracy were settled within the conflicting legal systems of mediev…
Marking Water
Seascapes
Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world.The essays presented here take a variety of approaches. One group examines the material, cultural, and intellectual constructs that info…
Women's Work
Queensborough Community College, a two-year institution within the City University of New York, might not, at first glance, seem like the most hospitable site for teaching and research in Women's Studies. Twice, over the past few decades, Queensborough's faculty carefully considered, and ultimately rejected, the implementation of a formal women's studies concentration. This essay will nevertheless argue that their decision was informed by feminis…
Restitution and the Definition of a Pirate
This study reconstructs two fifteenth-century lawsuits introduced by merchants attacked by the Genoese pirate Sologrus de Nigro, who was active in the Mediterranean between 1397 and 1401. Both actions sought compensation in civil damages, or restitution, from parties the litigants regarded as responsible for de Nigro's actions, in the first case the commune of Genoa and in the second the Order of Knights Hospitallers. Neither suit appears to have…
Piracy and law in medieval Genoa
This essay contextualizes a series of learned legal opinions, or consilia, authored primarily by the Genoese jurist Bartolomeo Bosco (d. 1437) on the subject of maritime theft, or piracy, by referring to contemporaneous records for the practice of maritime theft in the Mediterranean, archival records in the Archivio di Stato for Bosco's career, and related consilia authored by Bosco. It argues that Bosco's opinions on matters related to the pract…
Seascapes
Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world.The essays presented here take a variety of approaches. One group examines the material, cultural, and intellectual constructs that info…
Restitution and the Definition of a Pirate
This study reconstructs two fifteenth-century lawsuits introduced by merchants attacked by the Genoese pirate Sologrus de Nigro, who was active in the Mediterranean between 1397 and 1401. Both actions sought compensation in civil damages, or restitution, from parties the litigants regarded as responsible for de Nigro's actions, in the first case the commune of Genoa and in the second the Order of Knights Hospitallers. Neither suit appears to have…
The Legal Status of Piracy in Medieval Europe
This article discusses the history of maritime theft, or piracy, in medieval Europe, not so much as a crime but rather as a case study in legal pluralism: the operation of competing systems of law across a common region. Although scholarship has often interpreted sources for medieval European piracy through the filter of early modern conditions, the parameters of how disputes over piracy were settled within the conflicting legal systems of mediev…
Piracy and law in medieval Genoa
This essay contextualizes a series of learned legal opinions, or consilia, authored primarily by the Genoese jurist Bartolomeo Bosco (d. 1437) on the subject of maritime theft, or piracy, by referring to contemporaneous records for the practice of maritime theft in the Mediterranean, archival records in the Archivio di Stato for Bosco's career, and related consilia authored by Bosco. It argues that Bosco's opinions on matters related to the pract…
Piracy and law in medieval Genoa
This essay contextualizes a series of learned legal opinions, or consilia, authored primarily by the Genoese jurist Bartolomeo Bosco (d. 1437) on the subject of maritime theft, or piracy, by referring to contemporaneous records for the practice of maritime theft in the Mediterranean, archival records in the Archivio di Stato for Bosco's career, and related consilia authored by Bosco. It argues that Bosco's opinions on matters related to the pract…
Restitution and the Definition of a Pirate
This study reconstructs two fifteenth-century lawsuits introduced by merchants attacked by the Genoese pirate Sologrus de Nigro, who was active in the Mediterranean between 1397 and 1401. Both actions sought compensation in civil damages, or restitution, from parties the litigants regarded as responsible for de Nigro's actions, in the first case the commune of Genoa and in the second the Order of Knights Hospitallers. Neither suit appears to have…
Women's Work
Queensborough Community College, a two-year institution within the City University of New York, might not, at first glance, seem like the most hospitable site for teaching and research in Women's Studies. Twice, over the past few decades, Queensborough's faculty carefully considered, and ultimately rejected, the implementation of a formal women's studies concentration. This essay will nevertheless argue that their decision was informed by feminis…
Marking Water
Seascapes
Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world.The essays presented here take a variety of approaches. One group examines the material, cultural, and intellectual constructs that info…
The Legal Status of Piracy in Medieval Europe
This article discusses the history of maritime theft, or piracy, in medieval Europe, not so much as a crime but rather as a case study in legal pluralism: the operation of competing systems of law across a common region. Although scholarship has often interpreted sources for medieval European piracy through the filter of early modern conditions, the parameters of how disputes over piracy were settled within the conflicting legal systems of mediev…
Marking Water Piracy and Property in the Premodern West
Held to Account
This article draws upon legal sources and archival records from Barcelona, Venice, and Genoa to study the experience of scribes in the medieval Mediterranean. Just as Chaucer or Dante may have feared the scribe's power to alter compositions, so, too, did scribes excite apprehension among medieval agents of commerce. The weighty responsibilities assigned to scribes presented significant temptations for illicit enrichment, as well as risks, aboard …
What is Global History? by Sebastian Conrad
Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily
Gender and Status Competition in Pre-Modern Societies
History (8 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (6 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Medieval History and Crusades (3 works) · Medieval Literature and History (3 works)