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Zusatztext The breadth of König's survey is certainly impressive, and the conclusions he draws are important contributions to scholarship. And it may also be said that his investigation should be a necessary reference for future scholarship within the field ... König provides a much needed systematic investigation that convincingly and robustly traces the emergence of medieval Europe in the minds of medieval Arabic-Islamic thinkers. Establishing this process of emergence in itself is an indispensible contribution to scholarship, as it overturns some of the most misleading assertions that have shaped the study of this subject in the past. Informationen zum Autor After studying in Washington D.C., Königswinter, Cairo, Salamanca, Bonn, and Aleppo, Daniel G. König acquired his PhD at the University of Bonn in 2006 with a thesis on the Christianisation of Western Europe. From 2007 to 2011 he worked in Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages research at the German Historical Institute in Paris where he coordinated a research group on cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean. From 2011 to 2014 he worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Since 2014, he has held a start-up professorship for transcultural studies within the area 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context' at the University of Heidelberg. Klappentext An insight into how the Arabic-Islamic world perceived medieval Western Europe, refuting previous claims that the Muslim world regarded Western Europe as a cultural backwater, and instead arguing for the presence of cultural and information flows between the two very different societies. Zusammenfassung An insight into how the Arabic-Islamic world perceived medieval Western Europe, refuting previous claims that the Muslim world regarded Western Europe as a cultural backwater, and instead arguing for the presence of cultural and information flows between the two very different societies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Arabic-Islamic Records on Latin-Christian Europe: Introduction 2: An Evolving Information Landscape, 7th-15th centuries 3: Scholars At Work 4: Discovery of the Roman West 5: The Visigoths: History of a Conquered People 6: From the Franks to France 7: From the Patriarch of Rome to the Pope 8: The Expanding Latin-Christian Sphere 9: Arabic-Islamic Records on Latin-Christian Europe: A Re-evaluation Bibliography Index ...
