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

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Imprint:	Leiden : Brill, 2013. ©2013
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Medieval encounters ; v. 19, nos. 1/2 Medieval encounters ; v. 19, nos. 1/2.
Subject:	Acculturation -- Iberian Peninsula -- History. Acculturation -- Africa, North -- History. Acculturation. Civilization. International relations. Iberian Peninsula -- Relations -- Africa, North. Africa, North -- Relations -- Iberian Peninsula. Gibraltar, Strait of -- History. Iberian Peninsula -- Civilization. Africa, North -- Civilization. Iberian Peninsula -- Book reviews. Africa, North -- Book reviews. Gibraltar, Strait of -- Book reviews. North Africa. Europe -- Iberian Peninsula. Mediterranean Sea -- Strait of Gibraltar. Book reviews. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11216914

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Other authors / contributors:	Liang, Yuen-Gen, 1974- Balbale, Abigail Krasner. Devereux, Andrew. Gomez-Rivas, Camillo.
ISBN:	9789004256644 9004256644 9789004256637 9004256636
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Spanning the Strait 9789004256637
Standard no.:	10.1163/9789004256644.

Table of Contents:

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.

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

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