{"product_id":"the-golden-rhinoceros-9780691181264","title":"The Golden Rhinoceros","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The 2018 Medieval Book of the Year\"\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Golden Rhinoceros \u003c\/i\u003ebrings the diplomacy of Africa’s ‘Middle Ages’ to life, while also illuminating such fields as commerce, warfare, faith and literary endeavour. . . . Fauvelle’s three dozen or so snapshots serve as a kind of historical pointillism, each tiny moment contributing to a panorama of an intricately connected Afro-Islamic world, spanning a period of some seven hundred years.\"\u003cb\u003e---Barnaby Crowcroft, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fauvelle has assembled some powerful fragments of Africa’s history from the 8th to the 15th centuries.\" * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautifully written, [\u003ci\u003eThe Golden Rhinoceros\u003c\/i\u003e] offers an exciting set of insights into African societies, from the birth of Islam in the seventh century up to 15th century.\"\u003cb\u003e---Hannah Skoda, \u003ci\u003eBBC History Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Featuring stories from around the continent, this is a useful corrective to the outdated idea of a land ‘without history’.\" * History Revealed Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\"This English edition of a 2013 French publication is very welcome, being an accessible and stimulating introduction to the richness of medieval Africa. . . If necessarily reliant on external accounts, the careful use of archaeology allows the African histories to remain centre stage.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Edwards, \u003ci\u003eMedieval Archaeology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fauvelle—and Tice—have achieved a rare feat in \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Rhinoceros\u003c\/i\u003e. They have produced a book that is deeply researched, and which will satisfy and invigorate even the specialist scholar. Yet it is beautifully written, and easily accessible to the non-expert or first-year undergraduate. This is a masterful synthesis of knowledge about Africa that deserves to be read widely.\"\u003cb\u003e---Myles Osborne, \u003ci\u003eThe Medieval Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A one-of-a-kind, eye-opening journey on which [Fauvelle] expertly reconstructs the understudied and, what’s worse, severely misrepresented, African Middle Ages. . . . Masterfully translated from its original 2013 publication in French, \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Rhinoceros \u003c\/i\u003eambitiously encompasses the entire African continent, beginning in the eighth century with early Muslim commercial and military activities, and ending in the fifteenth century at the dawn of European colonialism.\"\u003cb\u003e---Esra Akın-Kıvanç, \u003ci\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With its short but fascinating essays, beautiful illustrations and maps, it opens up a world of medieval culture that is often neglected in western Europe . . . . do read \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Rhinoceros\u003c\/i\u003e: it will expand your historical horizons.\"\u003cb\u003e---Elizabeth Boyle, \u003ci\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865540702551,"sku":"9780691181264","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-golden-rhinoceros-9780691181264","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}