Texts from the middle : documents from the Mediterranean world, 650-1650 /
"Texts from the Middle is a companion primary source reader to the textbook, The Sea in the Middle. It can be used alone or in conjunction with the textbook, providing an original history of the Middle Ages that places the Mediterranean at the geographical center of the study of the time period...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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Colección: | Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
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Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. The Helleno-Islamic Mediterranean (650-1050 CE). The legacy of empire
- Mediterranean connections
- Conversion and the consolidation of identities
- Peoples of the book reading their books
- Part II. An age of conflict and collaboration (1050-1350 CE). Holy and unholy war
- A connected sea
- Mediterranean societies
- Reading each others' books
- A sea of technology, science, and philosophy
- Part III. The contest for the Mediterranean (1350-1650 CE). Imperial rivalry and sectarian strife
- Minorities and diasporas
- Slavery and captivity
- Mystical Messiahs and converts, humanists and armorers
- Family, gender, and honor
- Mediterranean economies and societies in a widening world.