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This book reveals the medieval Mediterranean region as a richly nuanced space of places and peoples connected by a body of water, but far from unified - and seeks to challenge what we think we know about the medieval Mediterranean, and the world it influenced.
List of contents
Part 1: Archaeology and Architecture1.Cross-cultural Encounters on Byzantine Islands (ca.600
-ca.900): An Archaeological Perspective
Zavagno, LucaPart 2: Stories of Travel and Encounter2. Cultural Interconnectedness Between China and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
Broilo, Federica A.3. Between the Sands of the Sahara and the Waves of the Mediterranean: The Fleet as a Model of Political and Economic Expansion of the Almoravid Empire (508/1115
-541/1147)
Lourinho, Inês Part 3: Literature and Poetry4. A Collection of Indian Fables Across Medieval Mediterranean Cultures
Carretero-Martínez, Gonzalo 5. The Depiction of Morals and Virtues in Renaissance Poetry
Wirth, Matthew6. Human and Nonhuman "Others" in Chrétien's Yvain
White, Victoria Part 4: Matters of Faith7. Discord and Concord on the Basis of Faith Between the East Syriac and Byzantine Churches in the Early Medieval Mediterranean World
Popa, Catalin-Stefan8. Traveling Hagiography: The Exchange of Saints' Lives Across the Medieval Mediterranean
Politano, Cristina Part 5: Crusades9. The Crusader States in the Foreign Policy of the First Mamluks
Filipau, Aliaksandr 10. "God Wills It": Pope Urban II, the Anti-Pope Clement III, and the Reasons for the First Crusade
Woodson, Hue Part 6: Monarchies and Conflict11. "
May God Destroy the Spanish," North African Sixteenth Century Ottomanophilia Through Mapmaking
Kahlaoui, Tarek 12. The Nasrid Sultanate of Granada, and the Frontier (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries)
Carrasco-Melo, Diego 13. A Crown for Queen Isabella: Symbols, Contested Authority, and Royal Intervention in Early Modern Granada
Morera, Luis X.Part 7: Ties That Bind14. The Macedonian Dynasty: Marriage and Politics in the Third/Ninth Century
Panagiotou, Stavros 15. A Woman's Affair: Dowries in Genoese Chios in the Late Middle Ages
Ravera, Chiara16. Byzantines and Brides: Negotiating Romanness and Kinship Across Frontiers
Magnolia, Alex Part 8: Around the Mediterranean World17. Disease in the Medieval Mediterranean
Thacker, Brenda18. Between Baghdad and The Mediterranean
PreJean, Chris 19. Nomads in the Medieval Mediterranean: Mobility and Counter-Mobility in a Changing World
Freeman, Margaret Helen20. Unwilling Migrants: Slave Trade Between the Balkan Peninsula and the Mediterranean Between 1280 and 1350
Stojkovski , Boris21. Piracy in the Medieval Mediterranean
Parker, Matthew E.22. Conclusion: An Ending and Maybe a Beginning
About the author
Jeanette M. Fregulia, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, Carroll College, Helena, Montana. Her research interests include merchants and trade in the pre-modern Mediterranean. Her most recent publication is
A Rich and Tantalizing Brew: A History of How Coffee Connected the World (2019).
Summary
This book reveals the medieval Mediterranean region as a richly nuanced space of places and peoples connected by a body of water, but far from unified – and seeks to challenge what we think we know about the medieval Mediterranean, and the world it influenced.
