Windows Into The Medieval Mediterranean

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Edited by Fregulia, Jeanette M.

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This book reveals the medieval Mediterranean region as a richly nuanced space of places and peoples connected by a body of water, but far from unified – and seeks to challenge what we think we know about the medieval Mediterranean, and the world it influenced.

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This book reveals the medieval Mediterranean region as a richly nuanced space of places and peoples connected by a body of water, but far from unified—and seeks to challenge what we think we know about the medieval Mediterranean and the world it influenced.

Reflective of the diversity of the Mediterranean region, the contributors are an international body of scholars that bring together topics that are seemingly disparate but are in fact in a vibrant conversation with one another. The volume seeks to shed new light and perspectives on familiar topics. Each chapter begins with secondary commentary for context, and is followed by primary sources comprised of images and texts that invite careful reading, lively discussion, and possibilities for deeper research. Topics that are discussed include: Archaeology and Architecture, Stories of Travel and Encounter, Literature and Poetry, Matters of Faith, Crusades, Monarchies and Conflict, Ties that Bind, and Around the Mediterranean World.

Windows into the Medieval Mediterranean is simultaneously a scholarly and reader-friendly book intended to engage undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and anyone interested in the Mediterranean of the Middles Ages.

Table of contents:

Part 1: Archaeology and Architecture

1.Cross-cultural Encounters on Byzantine Islands (ca.600
–ca.900): An Archaeological Perspective

Zavagno, Luca

Part 2: Stories of Travel and Encounter

2. Cultural Interconnectedness Between China and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages

Broilo, Federica A.

3. Between the Sands of the Sahara and the Waves of the Mediterranean: The Fleet as a Model of Political and Economic Expansion of the Almoravid Empire (508/1115
–541/1147)

Lourinho, Inês

Part 3: Literature and Poetry

4. A Collection of Indian Fables Across Medieval Mediterranean Cultures

Carretero-Martínez, Gonzalo

5. The Depiction of Morals and Virtues in Renaissance Poetry

Wirth, Matthew

6. Human and Nonhuman “Others” in Chrétien’s Yvain

White, Victoria

Part 4: Matters of Faith

7. Discord and Concord on the Basis of Faith Between the East Syriac and Byzantine Churches in the Early Medieval Mediterranean World

Popa, Catalin-Stefan

8. Traveling Hagiography: The Exchange of Saints” Lives Across the Medieval Mediterranean

Politano, Cristina

Part 5: Crusades

9. The Crusader States in the Foreign Policy of the First Mamluks

Filipau, Aliaksandr

10. “God Wills It”: Pope Urban II, the Anti-Pope Clement III, and the Reasons for the First Crusade

Woodson, Hue

Part 6: Monarchies and Conflict

11. “May God Destroy the Spanish,” North African Sixteenth Century Ottomanophilia Through Mapmaking

Kahlaoui, Tarek

12. The Nasrid Sultanate of Granada, and the Frontier (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries)

Carrasco-Melo, Diego

13. A Crown for Queen Isabella: Symbols, Contested Authority, and Royal Intervention in Early Modern Granada

Morera, Luis X.

Part 7: Ties That Bind

14. The Macedonian Dynasty: Marriage and Politics in the Third/Ninth Century

Panagiotou, Stavros

15. A Woman”s Affair: Dowries in Genoese Chios in the Late Middle Ages

Ravera, Chiara

16. Byzantines and Brides: Negotiating Romanness and Kinship Across F