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The Sea in the Middle The Mediterranean World, 650-1650

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23.08.2022

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91 color, 94 b-w illustrations 28 maps

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University Presses

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Englisch

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978-0-520-29652-7

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Details

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

23.08.2022

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91 color, 94 b-w illustrations 28 maps

Verlag

University Presses

Seitenzahl

496

Maße (L/B/H)

25,2/21,2/2,5 cm

Gewicht

1396 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-520-29652-7

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  • Produktbild: The Sea in the Middle
  • 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 ꞌUmar and the Treaty of Tudmir 
      Faith and Power
      ARTIFACT: Images of Empire: Basil II, Otto III, and ꞌAbd 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 Divriği 
      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?

    Index