title: From Mid-October to The End of March - Voyaging in the Medieval Mediterranean
abstract: This article contrasts the common and over the past five decades frequently recorded perception by both scholars and others of the absence of winter voyaging in the Medieval Mediterranean -largely based upon the surviving legal texts recording the prohibition of winter sailing issued by Pisa, Venice, Genoa, Ancona etc. -with the record of the actual practice of winter sailing in the Medieval Mediterranean. This, after providing evidence extending from 1936 to 2010 from the published record of th
journal: Cedrus