Lost Civilization - The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal

Zusatztext Boone's Lost civilization is a valuable essay upon the history of Islamic civilisation in the Iberian peninsula. Informationen zum Autor James L. Boone is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico Richard Hodges OBE is Emeritus President of The American University of Rome, Italy. He is the editor of the Debates in Archaeology series; and his publications include Dark Age Economics (2012), The Anglo-Saxon Achievement (1991), Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne (2000), Goodbye to the Vikings (2006) and (as co-author) Villa to Village (2003), all published by Bloomsbury Academic. He has previously been Director of Archaeology for the Butrint Foundation, Albania, and Director of the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, USA. Zusammenfassung Al-Andalus, the Iberian Islamic civilization centred on Cordoba in the tenth and eleventh centuries, has been a 'lost' civilization in several respects. This book takes a comparative civilizations approach that puts the formation of Al-Andalus in context with corresponding developments elsewhere in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Product details

• Authors: James L Boone, James L. Boone, Boone James L, Richard Hodges
• Assisted by: Richard Hodges (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2009
• EAN: 9780715635681
• ISBN: 978-0-7156-3568-1
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Duckworth Debates in Archaeolo; Debates in Archaeology; Duckworth Debates in Archaeolo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Portugal, European History, Spain, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Archaeology by period / region, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Medieval European archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Spain, HISTORY / Europe / Portugal