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{"title":"Sharing on the Way to the Holy Land: The Shrine of Our Lady of Cassiope on the Island of Corfu","authors":"Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakis","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2021.2021057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2021.2021057","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the history of a small Greek church on the island of Corfu and attempts to explain how it grew into an important pilgrimage shrine for Latin pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem. It also reviews the legends, miracle stories and devotional practices that developed around the site and discusses these within the context of the pilgrims’ experience during their voyage to the Holy Land. The article argues that in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the visit to the church of Cassiope marked the first contact between western pilgrims and the Greek rite and the first instance of shared worship during their pilgrimage.","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126353063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Studying the “Shared Sacred Spaces” of the Medieval Levant: Where Historians May Meet Anthropologists","authors":"B. Kedar","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2021.2015934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2021.2015934","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A study of medieval cases of bi- or tri-confessional worship of the same site, bolstered by insights from anthropological observations of such present-day worship, leads to the conclusion that the term “shared sacred spaces” does not do justice to the phenomena under consideration. They are more adequately described by such terms as “convergence,” “cohabitation,” “contested sacred place,” “interfaith crossover.” Future studies would benefit from the evolution of an analytical vocabulary consisting of components such as: the confessional ownership of the sacred space; the religious reasons for its veneration; the direction of interfaith crossovers; the nature of the act performed by adherents of different religions; the social standing and motivation of these adherents; the existence of a developmental trajectory.","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133416604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Caesar Bardas and the Earthquake of Constantinople: The Rival Depictions of the Event in the Arabic and Byzantine Sources","authors":"H. Taghavi, E. Roohi","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2021.1998943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2021.1998943","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The narratives of the reign of the last Amorian emperor, Michael III (r. 842–867), and the government of his uncle, Caesar Bardas (r. 856–866), were mostly authored by hostile Macedonian chroniclers living a century or so following the events they describe. This fact poses considerable difficulties for the historiographical assessment of this period. Recently brought to scholarly attention, a Shīʿī Arabic account has been presented in previous scholarship as a counter-narrative to Byzantine historians’ portrayal of the period of interest. The present study sets out to, first, re-appraise, in the light of fresh historical testimonies, the extent of Byzantine records’ affinities with this “ignored Arabic account” and second, to gauge whether this Arabic evidence can be an aid in filling the historiographical lacuna created by the Byzantine chroniclers’ and hagiographers’ one-sided depiction of the late Amorian period. The latter aim will be pursued via analysis of the rival representations of a traumatic event which happened during Bardas’s rule, namely the earthquake of Constantinople.","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"06 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127371489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Translator of Desires, Poems","authors":"Valerie Gonzalez","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2022.2049040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2022.2049040","url":null,"abstract":"tifying these forgeries, which he describes as ‘clumsy’, although weighing up the veracity of other documents seems to have proved rather more challenging. The later chapters go on to discuss the abbey’s administration, lordship, and its treatment of its peasants. The second section concludes with a discussion of Cava’s role within the regional economy. This detailed discussion includes many points of interest. These include the abbey’s evolving relationship with Salerno’s Jewish community, which suffered increasing pressure and persecution especially under Angevin rule in the late thirteenth century. Loud also stresses Cava’s role in the regional economy. As he demonstrates, the abbey pursued several economic roles: providing a secure depository where local elites could safeguard their property, acting as a creditor (an unusual role for a monastic institution), involving itself in trade with locations as distant as North Africa and the Kingdom of Jerusalem as well as more local commerce in Salerno. As a landowner it typically relied upon long-term leases rather than farming estates through its own personnel. Loud concludes his work with an appeal for further research into the Cava archive which clearly has a great deal more to offer. He also suggests that more could be learned from comparative studies – placing Cava side-by-side with other regional landowners. Certainly, the idea of conducting comparative local analyses makes a great deal of sense but this might also work on an international scale. Cava’s fluctuating fortunes, whilst very different in local context and experience from many other monastic houses, orders and networks in this period, nonetheless maps out a very common trajectory. Many other houses picked up substantial momentum in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries; reached their peak in the late-twelfth or early thirteenth centuries and then found themselves increasingly embattled thereafter. Exceptions could be found of course (mostly obviously the mendicants) and yet Cava’s experience was not unique and perhaps another zone for future research might be the influence of far broader macro social and cultural changes sweeping the Catholic world in shaping the abbey’s fortunes. Taken overall, The Social World of the Abbey of Cava represents a deeply impressive piece of work offering a nuanced and multi-faceted reconstruction of a fascinating monastic institution.","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129170623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe","authors":"D. Abulafia","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2022.2049037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2022.2049037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"206 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133929011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unveiling al-Isfār ʽan ḥukm al-asfār: Structural Analysis of a Fifteenth-Century Medical Manual for Travellers","authors":"Angela Isoldi","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2021.2001782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2021.2001782","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 Around the middle of the ninth/fifteenth century, the Egyptian court physician Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad Muẓaffar al-Dīn al-‘Ayntābī, also known as Ibn al-Amshāṭī (812/1409–902/1496), compiled a short health-guide for travellers dedicated to a prominent member of the Mamlūk administration, Muḥammad al-Juhanī al-Bārizī (796/1394–856/1452). As mentioned in its incipit, the scope of the booklet, entitled al-Isfār ʽan ḥukm al-asfār, was to accompany al-Bārizī in the pilgrimage to Mecca and provide him with the medical information necessary to keep healthy and cure sickness during the journey. By analysing the structure and contents of the unedited manuscript of this “provision for travellers”, this article discusses how Ibn al-Amshāṭī, mostly engaged with scholarly works, collected, organized and adapted scientific knowledge in a booklet for a non-professional readership. By looking into this process of knowledge transmission and adaptation, this article seeks to contribute to the re-evaluation of Mamlūk literary heritage.","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125007336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Medieval Turks: collected papers","authors":"Nicholas Morton","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2022.2049038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2022.2049038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129185012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The social world of the abbey of Cava c.1020-1300","authors":"Nicholas Morton","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2022.2049039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2022.2049039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134599716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy","authors":"Christopher Heath","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2022.2049035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2022.2049035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131079312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Not Sharing the Holy Land: Attitudes towards Sacred Space in Papal Crusade Calls, 1095–1234","authors":"Thomas W. Smith","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2021.2010477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2021.2010477","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article traces the attitudes expressed in papal crusade calls from 1095–1234 towards shared sacred space in the Holy Land which had a significant impact on thinking in the West and primed crusaders travelling to the East. The papacy’s conception of sacred space was one-dimensional, confrontational, and Eurocentric, promoting the idea of a binary conflict between Christians and Muslims and airbrushed diverse Eastern Christian communities to create a homogenous group. The themes of invasion and occupation of Christian holy sites by Muslims, and Islamic mockery and defilement of them, are staples of the genre, even when the holy places were in Frankish possession. However, through close comparison of the crusade calls, one can also trace subtler shifts in specific elements of the encyclical letters in response to the changing military and political context in the Levant and new devotional trends in the West.","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121650192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}