Lowell lectures delivered by Robert P. Blake, 1925.

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Lowell lectures delivered by Robert P. Blake, 1925.

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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.

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Blake, Robert Pierpont‏ (1886-1950).‏

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Robert Pierpont Blake (1886-1950), historian and librarian, was an Instructor in History (1920-1923), Tutor (1920), Assistant Professor of History (1923-1928), Associate Professor of History (1928), Professor of History (1930) at Harvard, and also served as Director of the Harvard University Library (1928-1937). While at Harvard, Blake taught the Georgian and Armenian languages, courses on the economic development of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean world, and on the Byzantine and Ottoman ...