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Paperback. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorYuen-Gen Liang, Ph.D. (2005) Princeton University, is Associate Professor of History at Wheaton College (Massachusetts). He is author of Family and Empire: The Fernandez de Cordoba and the Spanish Realm (University of.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Spanning the Strait: 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. Six articles on topics ranging from the eighth-century slave trade to sixteenth-century apocalypticism trace and analyze movement, mutual influence and patterns shared in the face of political, religious, and cultural difference.By transcending traditional disciplinary and temporal divisions, this collection of essays highlights the long history of contact and exchange that united the two sides of the Strait of Gibraltar. A comprehensive introduction by the editors contextualizes the articles within the last half-century of scholarship and salient contemporary trends.Contributors are Adam Gaiser, Linda G. Jones, Hussein Fancy, S.J. Pearce, David Coleman, and Marya T. Green-Mercado.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 23x15cm, 595 pages., FOUR VOLUMES, comprised of 5 issues. Weighs 900 grams.Complete for Volume 19 [2013]. This is a collection of five issues [bound in four] of the five-times-annually-published periodical ''Medieval Encounters : Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue", each separately bound in original wrappers. Each issue contains between 3 to 6 papers + reviews & notices. Issue no. 1-2 are a special double issue devoted to the theme "Spanning the Strait:Studies in Unity in the Western Mediterranean". Contents include: The Preaching of the Almohads: Loyalty and Resistance across the Strait of Gibraltar; The Last Almohads: Universal Soveereignty between North Africa and the Crown of Aragon; The Mahdi in Valencia: Messianism, Apocalypticism and Morisco Rebellions in Late-Sixteenth-Cenrury Spain; Halting between Two Opinions: Conversion and Apostasy in Early Islam; Christians in Medieval Shi'i Historiography: From Legend to History; etc.