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The Sea in the Middle

The Mediterranean World, 650-1650
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
496 Seiten
Englisch
University of California Presserschienen am23.08.2022
The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity. This textbook is uniquely centered on the Mediterranean and emphasizes the role played by peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia, and Europe in an age when Christians, Muslims, and Jews of various denominations engaged with each other in both conflict and collaboration.   Key features: Fifteen-chapter structure to aid classroom use  Sections in each chapter that feature key artifacts relevant to chapter themesDynamic visuals, including 190 photos and 20 mapsThe Sea in the Middle and its sourcebook companion, Texts from the Middle, pair together to provide a framework and materials that guide students through this complex but essential history-one that will appeal to the diverse student bodies of today.mehr
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KlappentextThe Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity. This textbook is uniquely centered on the Mediterranean and emphasizes the role played by peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia, and Europe in an age when Christians, Muslims, and Jews of various denominations engaged with each other in both conflict and collaboration.   Key features: Fifteen-chapter structure to aid classroom use  Sections in each chapter that feature key artifacts relevant to chapter themesDynamic visuals, including 190 photos and 20 mapsThe Sea in the Middle and its sourcebook companion, Texts from the Middle, pair together to provide a framework and materials that guide students through this complex but essential history-one that will appeal to the diverse student bodies of today.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-520-29652-7
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum23.08.2022
Seiten496 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 212 mm, Höhe 252 mm, Dicke 25 mm
Gewicht1396 g
Artikel-Nr.58546821

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents Preface Acknowledgments A Note on Conventions Introduction. The Mediterranean: Land, Sea, and People PART I. THE HELLENO-ISLAMIC MEDITERRANEAN (650-1050 CE): THE MAKING OF THE HELLENO-ISLAMIC MEDITERRANEAN  1 The Legacy of Empire   The Age of Empires    ARTIFACT: Negotiating Conquest: The Pact of êUmar and the Treaty of Tudmir    Faith and Power   ARTIFACT: Images of Empire: Basil II, Otto III, and êAbd al-Malik 2 Mediterranean Connections   Conflict and Integration   ARTIFACT: al-Qahira (Cairo): The Evolution of an Imperial Capital   Connection and Exchange    ARTIFACT: The Ribat-Funduq of Sousse (Susa): Military, Commercial, and Religious   Infrastructure in the Islamic Mediterranean 3 Conversion and the Consolidation of Identities   Muslim Conquest and Christian Conversion   ARTIFACT: The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem   Byzantine Christianity and the Eastern Churches   The Imperial Church under Siege    ARTIFACT: The Church of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) in Constantinople    The Latin Church in the West    An Islamo-Judaic Mediterranean  4 Peoples of the Book Reading Their Books   ARTIFACT: Wearing God´s Book in Medieval Egypt   God´s Books    Holy Books and Scholars   Holy Books and Greco-Roman Thinking   ARTIFACT: Medieval Readers: Greco-Roman Texts   Interpretation, Unity, and Power   ARTIFACT: Jewish Responsa and Muslim Fatwas  PART II. AN AGE OF CONFLICT AND COLLABORATION (1050-1350 CE): THE MEDITERRANEAN FROM THE EDGES 5 Holy and Unholy War    Pilgrims and Predators, ca. 1050-1150    ARTIFACT: Holy War   The Contested Mediterranean, ca. 1150-1250    ARTIFACT: Venice´s St. Mark´s Square and the Plundering of the Past 6 A Connected Sea    Conflict and Integration, ca. 1250-1350   ARTIFACT: Whose Art? Transregional Sensibilities and Itinerant Objects   Mediterranean Connections, ca. 1050-1350   ARTIFACT: To the Sea in Ships   Strategies and Structures, ca. 1050-1350   ARTIFACT: Mapping the Mediterranean and the World 7 Mediterranean Societies    The Politics of Diversity   ARTIFACT: The Many Faces of Roger II   Complex Societies    ARTIFACT: The Mosque and Hospital at DivriÄi    Cosmopolitan Communities    ARTIFACT: The Architecture of Power in the Iberian Peninsula 8 Reading Each Others´ Books    Translators and Terrific Stories    ARTIFACT: Alexander the Great in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic   Their Scripture, Our Language   Talking Religion   ARTIFACT: Interreligious Conversations, Real and Imagined 9 A Sea of Technology, Science, and Philosophy    Technology   ARTIFACT: Qanat and Noria   Science    ARTIFACT: The Seven Heavens   Aristotle: The Master of All Who Know  PART III. THE CONTEST FOR THE MEDITERRENEAN (1350-1650 CE): NEW EMPIRES, NEW SECTS, NEW WORLDS 10 Imperial Rivalry and Sectarian Strife    The Rise of Frontier Empires, ca. 1350-1500    ARTIFACT: Papal Propaganda in Renaissance Rome    The Duel of Empires and the Web of Alliances, ca. 1500-1650    ARTIFACT: Dueling Caesars: Representations of Ottoman and Habsburg Imperial Power 11 Minorities and Diasporas    Toward Religious Uniformity in the Catholic Mediterranean    ARTIFACT: The Lead Books of Granada    Religious Pluralism in the Muslim Mediterranean    ARTIFACT: Orthodox Monasteries and the Ottoman Empire    Diasporas    ARTIFACT: The Jewish Ghetto in Venice 326 12 Slavery and Captivity, 650-1650    Medieval Transformations of an Ancient Institution    Life of the Enslaved    ARTIFACT: The Ottoman Harem    Captives and Ransoming     ARTIFACT: Malta Transformed: The Impact of the Order of the Knights of St. John    Slavery and Racism    ARTIFACT: Black Africans in the Art of Western Mediterranean Christians 13 Mystical Messiahs and Converts, Humanists and Armorers    Mediterranean Mystics    ARTIFACT: El Greco: Painting the Mystical across the Mediterranean    Mediterranean Messiahs    ARTIFACT: Mediterranean Predictions of the End, 1450-1650     Converts    Humanists and Philosophers, Scientists and Engineers    ARTIFACT: Optics and Eyeglasses 14 Family, Gender, and Honor, ca. 650-1650    Honorable Families    ARTIFACT: Marriage Issues in the Jewish Diaspora: The Case of the Ottoman Near East    Women Inside, Women Outside    ARTIFACT: Women and Inquisitors in the Early Modern Mediterranean    Men and Violence 15 Mediterranean Economies and Societies in a Widening World    Economy and Society after the Black Death    ARTIFACT: The Venetian Arsenal and Venetian Galleys    Economic and Social Problems in an Age of Empire    The Mediterranean and the Atlantic    ARTIFACT: Profit, Fear, and Fascination: Elizabethan England and the Muslim World Epilogue: Luís de Torres in Cuba, Ishmael in the South Pacific: A World Grown Larger, a Sea Grown Smaller? Indexmehr

Autor

Thomas E. Burman is Professor of History at University of Notre Dame. He is a scholar of Christian-Muslim-Jewish intellectual and cultural history in the medieval Mediterranean. His book Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom was awarded the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History.
Brian A. Catlos is Professor of Religious Studies at University of Colorado Boulder. He works on Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations in the premodern Mediterranean. His most recent book, Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain, is available in eight languages and as an audiobook.
Mark D. Meyerson is Professor in the Department of History and Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. He works on Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations in the premodern Mediterranean and on the history of violence. His book A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain was runner-up for the National Jewish Book Award, USA.