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Spanning the Strait : studies in unity in the western Mediterranean /

Spanning the Straight: 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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Liang, Yuen-Gen, 1974-, Balbale, Abigail Krasner, Devereux, Andrew, Gomez-Rivas, Camillo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2013.
Colección:Medieval encounters ; v. 19, nos. 1/2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Unity and disunity across the Strait of Gibraltar / Yuen-Gen Liang, Abigail Krasner Balbale, Andrew Devereux, and Camilo Gomez-Rivas
  • [1] 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
  • [2] 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.