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Title Spanning the Strait : studies in unity in the western Mediterranean / edited by Yuen-Gen Liang, Abigail Krasner Balbale, Andrew Devereux, and Camillo Gomez-Rivas.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Medieval encounters ; v. 19, nos. 1/2
Medieval encounters ; v. 19, nos. 1/2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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Subject Iberian Peninsula -- Relations -- Africa, North.
Europe -- Iberian Peninsula.
Relations.
North Africa.
Africa, North -- Relations -- Iberian Peninsula.
Acculturation -- Iberian Peninsula -- History.
Acculturation.
History.
Acculturation -- Africa, North -- History.
Gibraltar, Strait of -- History.
Iberian Peninsula -- Civilization.
Civilization.
Africa, North -- Civilization.
Iberian Peninsula -- Book reviews.
Genre/Form Book reviews.
Subject Africa, North -- Book reviews.
Gibraltar, Strait of -- Book reviews.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Book reviews.
Reviews.
Reviews.
Added Author Liang, Yuen-Gen, 1974-
Balbale, Abigail Krasner.
Devereux, Andrew.
Gómez-Rivas, Camilo.
Other Form: Print version: Spanning the Strait 9789004256637 (DLC) 2013038650 (OCoLC)846814724
ISBN 9789004256644 (electronic book)
9004256644 (electronic book)
9789004256637
9004256636