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.Ian Richard Netton is the author of 'Across the Mediterranean Frontiers: Trade, Politics and Religion, 650-1450 AD (INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL RESEARCH)', published 1997 under ISBN 9782503506005 and ISBN 2503506003.