The Mediterranean World
The Mediterranean World
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Table of Content
Table of Content
<P>List of Maps<BR>Preface<BR>A Note on Names and Dates<BR>Introduction<BR>Historians and the Sea<BR>Approaches and Themes<BR>1. The Waning of the Roman Mediterranean<BR>Mare Nostrum<BR>A Christian Mediterranean<BR>An Eastern and a Western Mediterranean<BR>2. Forging New Traditions<BR>An Arabic Mediterranean<BR>Between New Imperial Capitals<BR>Climate Change and Collapse<BR>3. Early Medieval Economies and Cultures<BR>Shifting Economies and Merchant Networks<BR>Cultural Capitals and Intellectual Exchange<BR>Religious Life<BR>Religious Institutions<BR>The Rise of Religious Orthodoxies<BR>4. Reshaping Political Communities<BR>New Contenders for Power from the Peripheries<BR>Christian Ideas of Holy War and the First Crusade<BR>A Second Wave of Holy Warriors in the East and West<BR>New Monarchs, New States<BR>5. Crossing Boundaries<BR>Individual and Community Lives on the Frontier<BR>Conversion, Persuasion, and Inquisition<BR>Mobility, Accommodation, and Acculturation<BR>Movement of Ideas and Intellectuals<BR>Intellectual and Artistic Cultures at Court<BR>6. Commerce, Conquest, and Travel<BR>Commercial Exchange and Innovations<BR>Trade, Colonization, and the State<BR>Competition, Conflict, and Crusade<BR>Mobility of People<BR>The Bubonic Plague<BR>7. Crisis and Consolidation in State and Society<BR>New Contenders for Power<BR>The Fourteenth-Century Crisis<BR>Civil Wars and Centralizing Regimes<BR>Transitions in the Eastern Mediterranean<BR>8. The Renaissance Bazaar<BR>Networks of Exchange and Material Culture<BR>Intellectual Discourses<BR>Patronage and Power<BR>9. Mediterranean Empires<BR>The Ottoman Empire<BR>Habsburg Spain<BR>Venice<BR>Common Friends, Common Enemies<BR>10. Life on the Frontier<BR>Defining and Mapping Frontiers<BR>Migration and Movement<BR>Mediterranean Slavery<BR>Corsairs<BR>Renegades<BR>Religion and Life on the Frontier<BR>11. Mediterranean Transformations<BR>The Environment<BR>Demography<BR>Disease and Famine<BR>Economy<BR>Travel and Literature<BR>12. The Waning of the Early Modern Mediterranean<BR>Russia<BR>Napoleon<BR>Corsairs and Slaves<BR>Collecting the Mediterranean<BR>Guide to Resources<BR>Index</P>
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