{"title":"Black ships and sea raiders: the late Bronze and early Iron Age context of Odysseus’ Second Cretan Lie","authors":"Sarah C. Murray","doi":"10.1080/09518967.2020.1739835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1739835","url":null,"abstract":"A salutary trend in the study of Homeric epic over the last several decades has been an expansion of inquiries into connections between early Greek oral poetry and Bronze Age poetic traditions of t...","PeriodicalId":18431,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranean Historical Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"103 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09518967.2020.1739835","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60064673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the ocean: the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from prehistory to AD 1500","authors":"A. Ammerman","doi":"10.1080/09518967.2020.1739839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1739839","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18431,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranean Historical Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"115 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09518967.2020.1739839","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41967893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are you still my wife? Conversion to Christianity and its legal effects on pre-existing marriages and their offspring in late medieval Castile (1480–1502)","authors":"Marisa Bueno","doi":"10.1080/09518967.2020.1744070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1744070","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the legal and sociological consequences of conversion to Christianity by Muslim and Jewish couples in medieval Castile at the end of the fifteenth century, focusing on the application of legal prescription in legal praxis. The material summarized and analysed sheds light on how Jews and Muslims dealt with conversion to Christianity and the problems it brought to daily life. Broadening the discussion, this article looks at other conversions to Judaism and Islam in order to establish a comparative perspective and show the problems of legal miscegenation at the end of the fifteenth century in Castile. The paper is based on a dozen royal decrees granted by the Royal Council in response to petitions and preserved in the Archivo General of Simancas, as well as various Inquisitorial records. It answers three basic questions: what happens when only one spouse in the couple has converted; who should educate the children; and what happens when the marriage has been contracted but has not been consummated?","PeriodicalId":18431,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranean Historical Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"43 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09518967.2020.1744070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43194681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religiously mixed families in the Mediterranean society of the Cairo Geniza","authors":"Moshe Yagur","doi":"10.1080/09518967.2020.1741315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1741315","url":null,"abstract":"Documents of various genres from the Cairo Geniza from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, as well as contemporary legal queries to rabbinic figures, attest to the phenomenon of mixed-faith families among the Jewish communities of the Islamic Mediterranean. In most of these cases known to us, the husbands were Jewish apostates, probably converts to Islam, while their wives remained loyal to Judaism. This social reality was enabled by the legal feasibility of such marriages in both Jewish and Islamic law, as well as the general tendency in the Jewish communities under Islam to maintain social, professional, and familial contacts with apostates from Judaism. This laxity eased the social effects of conversion, and even left the door open for a possible later return of the apostate into the Jewish fold. The existence of religiously mixed families also meant that children of such families found themselves in a unique liminal position, torn between two religions. These children were encouraged by family and community members to embrace Jewish identity despite the conversion of one of their parents; the same was true even of children of couples who had both converted.","PeriodicalId":18431,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranean Historical Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"27 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09518967.2020.1741315","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44557998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Female conversion to Islam: a sample analysis of medieval narratives of the prophetic age","authors":"U. Simonsohn","doi":"10.1080/09518967.2020.1741230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1741230","url":null,"abstract":"The question of female conversion to Islam in pre-modern times has received insufficient attention in modern scholarship. This is mostly the result of the methodological problem that shrouds it. One can say with high measures of certainty that in contrast to their male counterparts, the treatment of female converts to Islam in early Islamic sources is almost always in relation to a male figure. It is the premise of the present contribution that female choices to embrace the Islamic creed, although restricted by male authority, deserve greater attention. The present discussion explores female agency in moments of conversion to Islam by focusing on the biographies of three female figures from the time of the Prophet. Read in tandem with additional literary sources, it attempts to locate the medieval (i.e. eighth–thirteenth centuries) context of stories that go back to the very early phases of the Umma – the Muslim Community of Believers.","PeriodicalId":18431,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranean Historical Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"25 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09518967.2020.1741230","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47481534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The cave of treasures: Syriac Anthology from late antiquity in Hebrew translation","authors":"Alessia Bellusci","doi":"10.1080/09518967.2020.1739841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1739841","url":null,"abstract":"resembles the Greek symposium. The last part of the book is devoted to contemporary recipes showing the variety of possibilities offered by the many geographical origins of Jewish culinary traditions and the influence of recent social changes, especially gender and generational roles around the Seder table and in the preparation of its special foods. Although Weingarten does not draw this comparison explicitly, there is a difference between Orthodox communities that define and limit permissible innovations with regard to recipes or symbolism versus the earnest, free-form understanding of more secular Jews who seek to evoke memories and authenticity, but in a customized fashion. The very creativity and ambiguity with regard to haroset’s recipes and symbolism show the slippage between Biblical injunctions and modern individualism. There is a desire to commemorate in accord with a distant past, as well as adapting to social change – Weingarten discusses “men in the kitchen” and “feminist haroset”. Passover and its food rituals continue to evoke religious cohesion and identity under adversity, but now, as in earlier times, they incorporate outside influences.","PeriodicalId":18431,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranean Historical Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"120 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09518967.2020.1739841","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43234307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identity, mixed unions and endogamy of the Moriscos: the assimilation of the new converts revisited","authors":"Luis F. Bernabé-Pons","doi":"10.1080/09518967.2020.1743100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1743100","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, new testimonies and analyses have come to light calling into question historians’ long-held and nearly unanimous assumption that the Morisco community was decidedly endogamous. The aim of the present study is to examine different cases and texts indicating that mixed unions between Moriscos and Old Christians may have been more frequent, more desired (despite evident geographical and social differences), and more widespread than previously assumed. These unions created certain social groups in which traditionally accepted religious boundaries became blurred. On the other hand, the Christian authorities afforded this type of mixed unions an importance that far outweighs the scant attention paid to them in the literature. Such marriages were supported and promoted by the monarchy throughout the sixteenth century, and the expulsion orders from the early seventeenth century always provided for exceptions arising from mixed unions and their descendants. These data indicate a social reality which may have been more significant and influential at the local and regional level than has previously been assumed.","PeriodicalId":18431,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranean Historical Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"79 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09518967.2020.1743100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48303236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retelling interreligious marriage, from Andalusi Christians to Moriscos","authors":"Ana María Echevarría Arsuaga","doi":"10.1080/09518967.2020.1741232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1741232","url":null,"abstract":"This article brings into question the use of Eulogius of Córdoba’s writings about the martyrs of Córdoba as a historical source for the study of intermarriage between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula, on the grounds of a critical analysis of the edition of Eulogius’s manuscript by the sixteenth-century royal chronicler Ambrosio de Morales. It argues that Morales had a very specific agenda, conditioned by his quest for relics for the monastery of El Escorial and his involvement in the building of a new cathedral inside the mosque of Córdoba, sanctioned by these same relics. He was also deeply moved by the discussion of mixed marriages between Old Christians and Moriscos, and by the social impact of the martyrdom of Christians during the Morisco revolts in the Alpujarras. Nevertheless, other unquestionable medieval sources show that mixed households were indeed perceived as a milieu where religious dissension or apostasy were likely to arise. The evidence provided by Paulus Alvarus of Córdoba, the Acts of Councils and the Council Canons compiled between the ninth and eleventh centuries are revisited in order to show how Andalusi Christian society sought to differentiate itself from other communities through the regulation of family ties, in the same way as the other churches of the Islamicate world.","PeriodicalId":18431,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranean Historical Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"63 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09518967.2020.1741232","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43845872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}