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Spanning the Strait : studies in unity in the western Mediterranean / edited by Yuen-Gen Liang, Abigail Krasner Balbale, Andrew Devereux, and Camillo Gomez-Rivas.

Title: Spanning the Strait : studies in unity in the western Mediterranean / edited by Yuen-Gen Liang, Abigail Krasner Balbale, Andrew Devereux, and Camillo Gomez-Rivas.
Publication: Leiden : Brill, 2013.

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268 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Spanning the Strait: Studies in Unity in the Western Mediterranean brings together a multidisciplinary collection of essays that examines the deep connections that bound together the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghrib in the medieval and early modern periods. Six articles on topics ranging from the eighth-century slave trade to sixteenth-century apocalypticism trace and analyze movement, mutual influence and patterns shared in the face of political, religious, and cultural difference. By transcending traditional disciplinary and temporal divisions, this collection of essays highlights the long history of contact and exchange that united the two sides of the Strait of Gibraltar. A comprehensive introduction by the editors contextualizes the articles within the last half-century of scholarship and salient contemporary trends --

Series Statement

Medieval encounters ; v. 19, nos. 1/2

Uniform Title

Medieval encounters v. 19, nos. 1/2.

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Genre/Form

Book reviews
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Unity and disunity across the Strait of Gibraltar / Yuen-Gen Liang, Abigail Krasner Balbale, Andrew Devereux, and Camilo Gomez-Rivas -- Articles: Slaves and silver across the Strait of Gibraltar : politics and trade between Umayyad Iberia and Kharijite North Africa / Adam Gaiser -- The preaching of the Almohads : loyalty and resistance across the Strait of Gibraltar / Linda G. Jones -- The last Almohads : universal sovereignty between North Africa and the Crown of Aragon / Hussein Fancy -- "The types of wisdom are two in number" : Judah Ibn Tibbon's quotation from the Iḥyā 'Ulūm al-Dīn / S.J. Pearce -- Of corsairs, converts and renegades : forms and functions of coastal raiding on both sides of the far western Mediterranean, 1490-1540 / David Coleman -- The Mahdi in Valencia : Messianism, apocalypticism and Morisco rebellions in late sixteenth-century Spain / Marya T. Green-Mercado --^
^^ Book reviews: Clifford R. Backman on Samantha Kelly, The 'Cronaca di Partenope' : an introduction to and critical edition of the first vernacular history of Naples, c. 1350 -- Travis Bruce on Ramzi Rouighi, The making of a Mediterranean emirate : Ifriqiya and its Andalusis, 1200-1400 -- Patrick Harris on Cyrille Aillet, Les Mozarabes : Christianisme, Islamisation, et Arabisation en Peninsule Iberique (IXe-XIIe siecle) -- Capucine Nemo-Pekelman on D. Freidenreich, Foreigners and their food : constructing otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic law -- Brenda S. Gardenour Walter on Patricia A. Baker, Han Nijdam, and Karine Van't Land, eds., Medicine and space : body, surroundings, and borders in antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Alexandra Cuffel on Marc Michael Epstein, The medieval Haggadah : art, narrative, and religious imagination --^
^^ Pamela A. Patton on Katrin kogman-Appel and Mati Meyer, eds., Between Judaism and Christianity : art historical essays in honor of Elisheva (Elisabeth) Revel-Neher -- Miguel Angel Vazquez on Ana Labarta, Carmen Barcelo, and Josefina Veglison, Valencia arab en prosa i vers.

ISBN

9789004256637 (paperback : acid-free paper)
9004256636 (paperback : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2013038650

OCLC

846814724
SCSB-12759204

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Harvard Library