Texts from the Middle

Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650-1650
Herausgeber: Catlos, Brian A.; Burman, Thomas E; Meyerson, Mark D.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Brilliantly contextualized and judiciously selected, this collection of documents is a magnificent and indispensable companion to The Sea in the Middle. The extensive number of primary sources provides a vivid road map to the Mediterranean's complex historical and cultural history between ca. 650 and 1650. An important achievement and a major contribution to Mediterranean studies." --Teofilo Ruiz, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Los Angeles "This superb selection of texts offers students an invaluable first-hand encounter with how and why the Mediterranean was such a shaping force during this millennium of history. Texts from the Middle vividly brings to life a diversity of peoples from across the Mediterranean world, ranging from violent border lords, proud queens, officious bureaucrats, energetic business women, hopeful migrants, fiery polemicists, and enslaved Africans to disappointed brides, lazy students, and artful tax dodgers."--Amy G. Remensnyder, Professor of History, Brown University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 176mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9780520296534
• ISBN-10: 0520296532
• Artikelnr.: 62846771

Autorenporträt

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.