Across the Mediterranean Frontiers: Trade, Politics and Religion, 650-1450 AD (INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL RESEARCH)

This is the first book is a series arising from the annual Leeds International Medieval Congress. It contains selected papers from the 1995 and 1996 conferences, based around David Abulafia's keynote address on `The Impact of the Orient: Economic Interactions between East and West in the Medieval Mediterranean'. As well as a whole multitude of material goods, the traffic of ideas across the Mediterranean progressively bound together the Islamic and Christian worlds into a Renaissance `global economy'. The twenty one papers are grouped into five sections: Islamic Spain and Sicily; Economic and Cultural Exchanges; Islamic and Western Politics and Religious Thought; Work and Warfare in the Mediterranean; Islamic Sources and Transmission. 16 of the papers are in English. The rest are in Italian, Spanish and French.