Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
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 across this long expanse of time and during the periods of transition from one dominant culture to another, Davis-Secord uncovers the patterns that defined and redefined the broader Muslim-Christian encounter in the Middle Ages.
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Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
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 across this long expanse of time and during the periods of transition from one dominant culture to another, Davis-Secord uncovers the patterns that defined and redefined the broader Muslim-Christian encounter in the Middle Ages.
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Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
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 across this long expanse of time and during the periods of transition from one dominant culture to another, Davis-Secord uncovers the patterns that defined and redefined the broader Muslim-Christian encounter in the Middle Ages.
Sarah Davis-Secord is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.
Table of Contents
List of Maps and IllustrationsixAcknowledgmentsxiAbbreviationsxiiiTimelinexv Introduction 11.Sicily between Constantinopleand Rome 292.Sicily between Byzantium andthe Islamic World 723.Sicily in the Dr al-Islm1114.Sicily from the Dr al-Islm to Latin Christendom1745.Sicily at the Center of the Mediterranean2136.Conclusion 242Bibliography249 Index285
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Clifford R. Backman
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.