Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique

Auteur(s) : Davis-Secord, Sarah C. (1974-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Where three worlds met [Texte imprimé] : Sicily in the early medieval Mediterranean / Sarah Davis-Secord

Publication : Ithaca (N.Y.) : Cornell University Press, 2017

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XX- 295 p.) ; 24 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Sicily is a lush and culturally rich island at the center of the Mediterranean Sea. Throughout its history, the island has been conquered and colonized by successive waves of peoples from across the Mediterranean region. In the early and central Middle Ages, the island was ruled and occupied in turn by Greek Christians, Muslims, and Latin Christians. 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. Sicily was a nexus for cross-cultural communication not because of its geographical placement at the center of the Mediterranean but because of the specific roles the island played in a variety of travel and trade networks in the Mediterranean region. Complex combinations of political, cultural, and economic need transformed Sicily's patterns of connection to other nearby regions--transformations that were representative of the fundamental shifts that took place in the larger Mediterranean system during the Middle Ages. The meanings and functions of Sicily's positioning within these larger Mediterranean communications networks depended on the purposes to which the island was being put and how it functioned at the boundaries of the Greek, Latin, and Muslim worlds

Sujet(s) : Christianisme -- Relations -- Islam -- Jusqu'à 1500  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Islam -- Relations -- Christianisme -- Jusqu'à 1500  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Méditerranée (région) -- Moyen âge  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Sicile (Italie) -- Jusqu'à 1500  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781501712593. - ISBN 1501712594. - ISBN 9781501712586. - ISBN 1501712586. - ISBN 9781501704642 (erroné). - ISBN 1501704648 (erroné) (rel.)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb45503495c

Notice n° :  FRBNF45503495 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Sicily between Constantinople and Rome ; Sicily between Byzantium and Islam ; Sicily in the dār al-Islām ; Sicily from the dār al-Islām to Latin Christendom ; Latin Sicily between three worlds.