Windows into the Medieval Mediterranean

Part 1: Archaeology and Architecture

1.Cross-cultural Encounters on Byzantine Islands (ca.600–ca.900): An Archaeological Perspective                

Zavagno, Luca

Part 2: Stories of Travel and Encounter

2. Cultural Interconnectedness Between China and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages                               

Broilo, Federica A.

3. Between the Sands of the Sahara and the Waves of the Mediterranean: The Fleet as a Model of Political and Economic Expansion of the Almoravid Empire (508/1115–541/1147)

Lourinho, Inês                                                                                                                                     

Part 3: Literature and Poetry

4. A Collection of Indian Fables Across Medieval Mediterranean Cultures           

Carretero-Martínez, Gonzalo                          

5. The Depiction of Morals and Virtues in Renaissance Poetry                                                                                

Wirth, Matthew

6. Human and Nonhuman “Others” in Chrétien’s Yvain

White, Victoria                                                                                                 

Part 4: Matters of Faith

7. Discord and Concord on the Basis of Faith Between the East Syriac and Byzantine Churches in the Early Medieval Mediterranean World                                                                                                         

Popa, Catalin-Stefan

8. Traveling Hagiography: The Exchange of Saints' Lives Across the Medieval Mediterranean        

Politano, Cristina              

Part 5: Crusades

9. The Crusader States in the Foreign Policy of the First Mamluks        

Filipau, Aliaksandr                                                        

10. “God Wills It”: Pope Urban II, the Anti-Pope Clement III, and the Reasons for the First Crusade

Woodson, Hue               

Part 6: Monarchies and Conflict

11. “May God Destroy the Spanish,” North African Sixteenth Century Ottomanophilia Through Mapmaking

Kahlaoui, Tarek                  

12. The Nasrid Sultanate of Granada, and the Frontier (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries)     

Carrasco-Melo, Diego                      

13. A Crown for Queen Isabella: Symbols, Contested Authority, and Royal Intervention in Early Modern Granada

Morera, Luis X.

Part 7: Ties That Bind

14. The Macedonian Dynasty: Marriage and Politics in the Third/Ninth Century     

Panagiotou, Stavros                                                          

15. A Woman's Affair: Dowries in Genoese Chios in the Late Middle Ages                          

Ravera, Chiara

16. Byzantines and Brides: Negotiating Romanness and Kinship Across Frontiers

Magnolia, Alex                                   

Part 8: Around the Mediterranean World

17. Disease in the Medieval Mediterranean                                                                                  

Thacker, Brenda

18. Between Baghdad and The Mediterranean            

PreJean, Chris                                                                                                    

19. Nomads in the Medieval Mediterranean: Mobility and Counter-Mobility in a Changing World                                                                                                 

Freeman, Margaret Helen

20. Unwilling Migrants: Slave Trade Between the Balkan Peninsula and the Mediterranean Between 1280 and 1350

Stojkovski , Boris

21. Piracy in the Medieval Mediterranean    

Parker, Matthew E.

22. Conclusion: An Ending and Maybe a Beginning  

Biography

Jeanette M. Fregulia, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, Carroll College, Helena, Montana. Her research interests include merchants and trade in the pre-modern Mediterranean. Her most recent publication is A Rich and Tantalizing Brew: A History of How Coffee Connected the World (2019).