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Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
Sarah Davis-Secord
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Description for Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14, 10 black & white halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Sicily is a lush and culturally rich island at the center of the Mediterranean Sea. Throughout its history, the island has been conquered and colonized by successive waves of peoples from across the Mediterranean region. In the early and central Middle Ages, the island was ruled and occupied in turn by Greek Christians, Muslims, and Latin Christians.In Where Three Worlds Met, Sarah Davis-Secord investigates Sicily's place within the religious, diplomatic, military, commercial, and intellectual networks of the Mediterranean by tracing the patterns of travel, trade, and communication among Christians (Latin and Greek), Muslims, and Jews. By looking at the island ... Read more
Sicily is a lush and culturally rich island at the center of the Mediterranean Sea. Throughout its history, the island has been conquered and colonized by successive waves of peoples from across the Mediterranean region. In the early and central Middle Ages, the island was ruled and occupied in turn by Greek Christians, Muslims, and Latin Christians.In Where Three Worlds Met, Sarah Davis-Secord investigates Sicily's place within the religious, diplomatic, military, commercial, and intellectual networks of the Mediterranean by tracing the patterns of travel, trade, and communication among Christians (Latin and Greek), Muslims, and Jews. By looking at the island ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501704642
SKU
V9781501704642
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99-1
About Sarah Davis-Secord
Sarah Davis-Secord is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.
Reviews for Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
Where Three Worlds Met is an ambitious and intelligent portrait of Sicily's place in Mediterranean life, a topic well worth undertaking. Located at the center of the Mediterranean, the island was not surprisingly the center of the various commercial, diplomatic, and cultural networks that spread throughout the basin.
Clifford R. Backman, Boston University, author of The Decline and ... Read more Overall... Davis-Secord's work makes a significant contribution to the way we ought to frame our questions about the medieval Mediterranean and Sicily, in particular.
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Eschewing generalizations regarding medieval Sicily's importance based on its geographical centrality in the Mediterranean, Davis-Secord (history, Univ. of New Mexico) presents a scholarly, nuanced view of the island during the period between the 6th and late 12th centuries. She accomplishes this not through a standard narrative history, but by exploring-imaginatively and successfully-the travel and communication networks produced and experienced by its Byzantine, Muslim, and Norman conquerors.
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Clifford R. Backman, Boston University, author of The Decline and ... Read more Overall... Davis-Secord's work makes a significant contribution to the way we ought to frame our questions about the medieval Mediterranean and Sicily, in particular.
Reading Religion
Eschewing generalizations regarding medieval Sicily's importance based on its geographical centrality in the Mediterranean, Davis-Secord (history, Univ. of New Mexico) presents a scholarly, nuanced view of the island during the period between the 6th and late 12th centuries. She accomplishes this not through a standard narrative history, but by exploring-imaginatively and successfully-the travel and communication networks produced and experienced by its Byzantine, Muslim, and Norman conquerors.
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