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Book SynopsisTo Live Like a Moor traces the many shifts in Christian perceptions of Islam-associated ways of life which took place across the centuries between early Reconquista efforts of the eleventh century and the final expulsions of Spain's converted yet poorly assimilated Morisco population in the seventeenth.
Trade Review"Because [Remie Constable] was always on the qui vive for new approaches and interests emerging in the profession, her work could put the medieval material she mined so well to the service of historians discovering those emerging topics even before they knew they wanted it. To pick but one example, whatever period they work in, the many historians who are becoming interested in the cultural work done by material culture-dress, food, housewares and furnishing, the things and objects we bear about our lives as we construct them-will find much inspiration in these pages. So too will those whose attention is increasingly tuned to questions of Islamic 'diasporas' in Christian Europe, both past and present. There is a great deal to learn from this book." * David Nirenberg, from the Foreword *
Table of ContentsForeword, David Nirenberg
Editor's Preface
Chapter 1. Being Muslim in Christian Spain
Chapter 2. Clothing and Appearance
Chapter 3. Bathing and Hygiene
Chapter 4. Food and Foodways
Editor's Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Editor's Acknowledgments
