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This volume brings together for the first time a collection of twelve articles written both jointly and individually by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell as they have participated in the debates generated by their major work, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (2000). One theme in those debates has been how a comprehensive Mediterranean history can be written: how an approach to Mediterranean history by way of its ecologies and the communications between them can be joined up with more mainstream forms of enquiry – cultural, social, economic, and political, with their specific chronologies and turning points. The second theme raises the question of how Mediterranean history can be fitted into a larger, indeed global history. It concerns the definition of the Mediterranean in space, the way to characterise its frontiers, and the relations between the region so defined and the other large spaces, many of them oceans, to which historians have increasingly turned for novel disciplinary-cum-geographical units of study. A volume collecting the two authors’ studies on both these themes, as well as their reply to critics of The Corrupting Sea, should prove invaluable to students and scholars from a number of disciplines: ancient, medieval and early modern history, archaeology, and social anthropology.

History as a science --- History of Southern Europe --- Mediterranean countries

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"Eunuchs were a common feature of pre- and early modern societies that are now poorly understood. Here, Jane Hathaway offers an in-depth study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the harem of the Ottoman Empire. A wide range of primary sources are used to analyse the Chief Eunuch's origins in East Africa and his political, economic, and religious role from the inception of his office in the late sixteenth century through the dismantling of the palace harem in the early twentieth century. Hathaway highlights the origins of the institution and how the role of eunuchs developed in East Africa, as well as exploring the Chief Eunuch's connections to Egypt and Medina. By tracing the evolution of the office, we see how the Chief Eunuch's functions changed in response to transformations in Ottoman society, from the generalized crisis of the seventeenth century to the westernizing reforms of the nineteenth century"--

History of Southern Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- Turkey --- Eunuchs --- East Africans --- Harems --- History. --- History

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Christian church history --- Music --- History of Southern Europe --- Spain --- Villancicos (Music) --- Church music --- History and criticism. --- Catholic Church

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Overzicht van het zuidoostelijke deel van Europa tijdens de middeleeuwen, toen het verkeerde onder het gezag van het Byzantijnse rijk

Balkan. --- Byzantijnse Rijk. --- Byzantijnse rijk. --- Geschiedenis. --- History of Eastern Europe --- anno 500-1499 --- Christian church history --- History of Southern Europe --- orthodox christendom --- Europe: South-East --- Balkan Peninsula

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In de achtste eeuw veroveren de moslims het Iberisch schiereiland Spanje. Al-Andalus (Arabisch Spanje) groeit uit tot een zelfstandig kalifaat met een grote welvaart. Drie eeuwen later beginnen de christenen de tegenaanval, in een strijd die bekend staat als de ?Reconquista?. Toledo, Cordoba en Sevilla worden een voor een door de christenen heroverd. Na circa achthonderd jaar valt in 1492 het doek definitief voor Al-Andalus, als de katholieke koning en koningin Ferdinand en Isabella het emiraat Granada inlijven bij de rest van Spanje. 0Tijdens die acht eeuwen leefden moslims, joden en christenen samen. Vreedzaam en tolerant, zoals sommigen graag geloven. Maar klopt dit met de historische werkelijkheid? Luk Corluy sloopt in dit boek deze mythe. Er was een constante spanning door wederzijdse achterdocht, burgeroorlogen tussen rivaliserende islamitische clans en achterstelling van joden en christenen. Na de herovering van Al-Andalus door de christenen, gedoogden de christelijke vorsten de achtergebleven moslims en de islam, maar onder christelijk gezag. Dat was voor de meeste moslims onaanvaardbaar. Moslims en joden kregen de keuze: zich bekeren of het land verlaten. De tolerantie en vreedzaamheid verdampten.

History of Southern Europe --- anno 800-1199 --- anno 700-799 --- anno 1200-1499 --- Andalusia --- 27 <460> "04/14" --- 27 <460> "04/14" Histoire de l'Eglise--Spanje--Middeleeuwen --- 27 <460> "04/14" Kerkgeschiedenis--Spanje--Middeleeuwen --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Spanje--Middeleeuwen --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Spanje--Middeleeuwen --- Christianity and other religions --- Islam --- Judaism --- Christianity. --- Civilization. --- Interfaith relations. --- Islam. --- Judaism. --- Religion. --- Relations. --- 711-1516. --- Spain --- Spain. --- History --- Civilization