Spanning the Strait
Subtitle: Studies in Unity in the Western Mediterranean
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9789004256637
Subjects: Acculturation; Africa, north, foreign relations; Gibraltar, history; Africa, civilization; Europe, relations, foreign countries; Europe, civilization
Description: 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 --