Gegna
Coastal Mooring in Crusader Valencia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5128432 |
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| Authors | Robert Ignatius Burns |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 777-786 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2006.0216 |
| OpenAlex | W2052520799 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
King Jaume the Conqueror promoted post-crusade technology in reorganizing his conquest of the thirteenth-century kingdom of Valencia along the Mediterranean coast. The massive use of paper inaugurated by his archives-Europe's "Paper Revolution"-recorded among his franchises a maritime docking machine called a gegnum, deployed along the Valencian beaches. The term does not yield its mysteries to exhaustive linguistic parsing or to reconstruction of its actual operations, once so common. What does gegnum mean in any language? What can be gleaned from archival descriptions? Can previous Muslim usage offer bicultural enlightenment? Colleagues, especially Professor Paul E. Chevedden, contribute to the debate and propose theories
Ancient history · Art · CONQUEST · Enlightenment · Humanities · Mooring · Theology · Valencian · Archaeological and Historical Studies · Classics · Geology · History · Medieval Architecture and Archaeology · Medieval History and Crusades · Oceanography · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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