{"product_id":"the-sea-in-the-middle-9780520296527","title":"The Sea in the Middle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity. This textbook is uniquely centered on the Mediterranean and emphasizes the role played by peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia, and Europe in an age when Christians, Muslims, and Jews of various denominations engaged with each other in both conflict and collaboration.     Key features: Fifteen-chapter structure to aid classroom use Sections in each chapter that feature key artifacts relevant to chapter themesDynamic visuals, including 190 photos and 20 mapsThe Sea in the Middle and its sourcebook companion, Texts from the Middle, pair together to provide a framework and materials that guide students through this complex but essential historyone that will appeal to the diverse student bodies of today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Conventions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The Mediterranean: Land, Sea, and People\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART I. THE HELLENO-ISLAMIC MEDITERRANEAN (650–1050 CE):\u003cbr\u003e THE MAKING OF THE HELLENO-ISLAMIC MEDITERRANEAN \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 The Legacy of Empire\u003cbr\u003e   The Age of Empires \u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: Negotiating Conquest: The Pact of ꞌUmar and the Treaty of Tudmir \u003cbr\u003e   Faith and Power\u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: Images of Empire: Basil II, Otto III, and ꞌAbd al-Malik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2 Mediterranean Connections\u003cbr\u003e   Conflict and Integration\u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: al-Qahira (Cairo): The Evolution of an Imperial Capital\u003cbr\u003e   Connection and Exchange \u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: The Ribat-Funduq of Sousse (Susa): Military, Commercial, and Religious\u003cbr\u003e   Infrastructure in the Islamic Mediterranean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3 Conversion and the Consolidation of Identities\u003cbr\u003e   Muslim Conquest and Christian Conversion\u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem\u003cbr\u003e   Byzantine Christianity and the Eastern Churches\u003cbr\u003e   The Imperial Church under Siege \u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: The Church of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) in Constantinople \u003cbr\u003e   The Latin Church in the West \u003cbr\u003e   An Islamo-Judaic Mediterranean \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 Peoples of the Book Reading Their Books\u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: Wearing God’s Book in Medieval Egypt\u003cbr\u003e   God’s Books \u003cbr\u003e   Holy Books and Scholars\u003cbr\u003e   Holy Books and Greco-Roman Thinking\u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: Medieval Readers: Greco-Roman Texts\u003cbr\u003e   Interpretation, Unity, and Power\u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: Jewish Responsa and Muslim Fatwas \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART II. AN AGE OF CONFLICT AND COLLABORATION (1050–1350 CE):\u003cbr\u003e THE MEDITERRANEAN FROM THE EDGES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 Holy and Unholy War \u003cbr\u003e   Pilgrims and Predators, ca. 1050–1150 \u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: Holy War\u003cbr\u003e   The Contested Mediterranean, ca. 1150–1250 \u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: Venice’s St. Mark’s Square and the Plundering of the Past\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6 A Connected Sea \u003cbr\u003e   Conflict and Integration, ca. 1250–1350\u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: Whose Art? Transregional Sensibilities and Itinerant Objects\u003cbr\u003e   Mediterranean Connections, ca. 1050–1350\u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: To the Sea in Ships\u003cbr\u003e   Strategies and Structures, ca. 1050–1350\u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: Mapping the Mediterranean and the World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7 Mediterranean Societies \u003cbr\u003e   The Politics of Diversity\u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: The Many Faces of Roger II\u003cbr\u003e   Complex Societies \u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: The Mosque and Hospital at Divriği \u003cbr\u003e   Cosmopolitan Communities \u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: The Architecture of Power in the Iberian Peninsula\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8 Reading Each Others’ Books \u003cbr\u003e   Translators and Terrific Stories \u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: Alexander the Great in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic\u003cbr\u003e   Their Scripture, Our Language\u003cbr\u003e   Talking Religion\u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: Interreligious Conversations, Real and Imagined\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9 A Sea of Technology, Science, and Philosophy \u003cbr\u003e   Technology\u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: Qanat and Noria\u003cbr\u003e   Science \u003cbr\u003e   ARTIFACT: The Seven Heavens\u003cbr\u003e   Aristotle: The Master of All Who Know \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART III. THE CONTEST FOR THE MEDITERRENEAN (1350–1650 CE):\u003cbr\u003e NEW EMPIRES, NEW SECTS, NEW WORLDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10 Imperial Rivalry and Sectarian Strife\u003cbr\u003e    The Rise of Frontier Empires, ca. 1350–1500\u003cbr\u003e    ARTIFACT: Papal Propaganda in Renaissance Rome\u003cbr\u003e    The Duel of Empires and the Web of Alliances, ca. 1500–1650\u003cbr\u003e    ARTIFACT: Dueling Caesars: Representations of Ottoman and Habsburg Imperial Power\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11 Minorities and Diasporas\u003cbr\u003e    Toward Religious Uniformity in the Catholic Mediterranean\u003cbr\u003e    ARTIFACT: The Lead Books of Granada\u003cbr\u003e    Religious Pluralism in the Muslim Mediterranean\u003cbr\u003e    ARTIFACT: Orthodox Monasteries and the Ottoman Empire\u003cbr\u003e    Diasporas\u003cbr\u003e    ARTIFACT: The Jewish Ghetto in Venice 326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12 Slavery and Captivity, 650–1650\u003cbr\u003e    Medieval Transformations of an Ancient Institution\u003cbr\u003e    Life of the Enslaved\u003cbr\u003e    ARTIFACT: The Ottoman Harem\u003cbr\u003e    Captives and Ransoming \u003cbr\u003e    ARTIFACT: Malta Transformed: The Impact of the Order of the Knights of St. John\u003cbr\u003e    Slavery and Racism\u003cbr\u003e    ARTIFACT: Black Africans in the Art of Western Mediterranean Christians\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13 Mystical Messiahs and Converts, Humanists and Armorers\u003cbr\u003e    Mediterranean Mystics\u003cbr\u003e    ARTIFACT: El Greco: Painting the Mystical across the Mediterranean\u003cbr\u003e    Mediterranean Messiahs\u003cbr\u003e    ARTIFACT: Mediterranean Predictions of the End, 1450–1650 \u003cbr\u003e    Converts\u003cbr\u003e    Humanists and Philosophers, Scientists and Engineers\u003cbr\u003e    ARTIFACT: Optics and Eyeglasses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14 Family, Gender, and Honor, ca. 650–1650\u003cbr\u003e    Honorable Families\u003cbr\u003e    ARTIFACT: Marriage Issues in the Jewish Diaspora: The Case of the Ottoman Near East\u003cbr\u003e    Women Inside, Women Outside\u003cbr\u003e    ARTIFACT: Women and Inquisitors in the Early Modern Mediterranean\u003cbr\u003e    Men and Violence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15 Mediterranean Economies and Societies in a Widening World\u003cbr\u003e    Economy and Society after the Black Death\u003cbr\u003e    ARTIFACT: The Venetian Arsenal and Venetian Galleys\u003cbr\u003e    Economic and Social Problems in an Age of Empire\u003cbr\u003e    The Mediterranean and the Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e    ARTIFACT: Profit, Fear, and Fascination: Elizabethan England and the Muslim World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Luís de Torres in Cuba, Ishmael in the South Pacific: A World Grown\u003cbr\u003e Larger, a Sea Grown Smaller?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402898579799,"sku":"9780520296527","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520296527.jpg?v=1730481805","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sea-in-the-middle-9780520296527","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}