{"title":"Aisha's Cushion: Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam","authors":"Ann Chamberlin","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2015.1049426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2015.1049426","url":null,"abstract":"co-religionists in Africa. The book closes with a conclusion and is accompanied by an extensive forty-page bibliography and a comprehensive index. It is impossible to do justice to this finely-argued and richly-evidenced book in such a short review. Although the book’s specific arguments will no doubt provoke continued debate and further research, its overall thesis that Roman cultural identity was paradigmatic throughout the period is highly convincing and will hopefully inform studies of “long” late antiquity elsewhere in the post-Roman West.","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"35 1","pages":"174 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77572866","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 Almohad Revolution: Politics and Religion in the Islamic West during the Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries","authors":"Sabahat F. Adil","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2015.1049427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2015.1049427","url":null,"abstract":"Maribel Fierro's The Almohad Revolution features fourteen articles based on her previously-published work on the Almohads (Arabic al-Muwaḥḥidūn). In addition to the articles, the volume contains a ...","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"42 1","pages":"176 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83111970","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":"To Follow in Their Footsteps: The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages","authors":"Bettina Koch","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2015.1049431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2015.1049431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"40 1","pages":"181 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86692734","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":"Medieval Amalfi and its Diaspora 800–1250","authors":"Christopher Heath","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2015.1049432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2015.1049432","url":null,"abstract":"This monograph analyses the central significance of Amalfi as not only a trading entrepot in the early and central Middle Ages but also as a fundamental point of contact between cultures and politi...","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"6 1","pages":"183 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86657158","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":"Christian Identity amid Islam in Medieval Spain","authors":"B. Catlos","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2015.1049435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2015.1049435","url":null,"abstract":"The Mozarabs, long-neglected in the historiography of medieval Spain, have been the subject of considerable scholarly attention of late. No episode in their obscure history is more compelling that of the “voluntary martyrs” of Córdoba: the fortyeight Christian men and women who were put to death between 236/850 and 245/859 on charges of deliberate blasphemy or technical apostasy, and the two figures at the centre of the movement: St Eulogius of Córdoba (who was among the martyrs), and Paul Alvar, his layman friend and memorialist (who chose life). Long held by Catholic and nationalist historians to be emblematic of a broad Spanish, Christian resistance in the face of the Islamic domination of Hispania, the movement has been the subject of well-deserved revisions from the perspective of intellectual and social history, notably by Kenneth Baxter Wolf and Jessica Coope. Meanwhile, others, particularly Thomas Burman, have been subjecting the religious writings and intellectual culture of later period Mozarabs (post-1050) to careful analysis. Tieszen’s Christian Identity fills a space between these two approaches to the martyrs and the Mozarabs, by focusing primarily on the ninth century, but taking a Burman-like turn, subjecting the polemical and theological works of Alvar and his contemporaries to a much-overdue reexamination. Indeed, it is Tieszen’s intention not to use the polemics to plumbMuslim–Christian relations, but rather to explore these “authors’ Christian identity in the light of Islam”","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"6 1","pages":"185 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85333718","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":"Anxieties of Violence: Christians and Muslims in Conflict in Aghlabid North Africa and the Central Mediterranean*","authors":"Jonathan P. Conant","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2015.1002230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2015.1002230","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Italo-Byzantine sources for Aghlabid Ifrīqiya present a vision of Muslim–Christian relations in the region that is often darkly violent, and that contrasts with the image of this time and place found not only in the Arabic accounts, but even in most contemporary Latin Christian ones. Critically, however, the Byzantine texts most concerned with violence in the Aghlabid amirate comprise a small but important collection of hagiographic narratives about Sicilian and southern Italian Christians carried off into slavery by North African raiders. Indeed, in the third/ninth century, the Byzantine central Mediterranean was particularly hard-hit by raiding staged from lands under Muslim control, and Ifrīqiya appears to have been the market of choice for slaves captured in expeditions of this sort. North African society was doubtless characterised by some degree of interfaith tension in the Aghlabid period; but far more central to the violent vision of the Byzantine sources is the fact that hagiography provided a narrative space within which authors and audiences alike could grapple with anxieties about the possibility of capture and its physical and spiritual consequences.","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"63 1","pages":"23 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82103476","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":"Trading Conflicts: Venetian Merchants and Mamluk Officials in Late Medieval Alexandria","authors":"J. Van Steenbergen","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2015.1002243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2015.1002243","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"23 1","pages":"104 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76024857","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":"Cultural Encounters during the Crusades","authors":"James Doherty","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2015.1002237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2015.1002237","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"80 1","pages":"93 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82304072","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":"Persecution, Past and Present: Memorialising Martyrdom in Late Antique and Early Medieval Córdoba*","authors":"J. Wood","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2015.1002232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2015.1002232","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Christian martyr movement of 850s Córdoba has received considerable scholarly attention over the decades, yet the movement has often been seen as anomalous. The martyrs’ apologists were responsible for a huge spike in evidence, but analysis of their work has shown that they likely represented a minority “rigorist” position within the Christian community and reacted against the increasing accommodation of many Mozarabic Christians to the realities of Muslim rule. This article seeks to place the apologists, and therefore the martyrs, in a longer-term perspective by demonstrating that martyr memories were cultivated in the city and surrounding region throughout late antiquity, from at least the late fourth century. The Cordoban apologists made active use of this tradition in their presentation of the events of the mid-ninth century. The article closes by suggesting that the martyr movement of the 850s drew strength from churches dedicated to earlier martyrs from the city and that the memories of the martyrs of the mid-ninth century were used to reinforce communal bonds at Córdoba and beyond in the following years. Memories and memorials of martyrdom were thus powerful means of forging connections across time and space in early medieval Iberia.","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"21 1","pages":"41 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86295337","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":"Anger in the Crónica de Alfonso X*","authors":"S. Doubleday","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2015.1002233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2015.1002233","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract By the thirteenth century, it had become widely maintained that rulers had an ethical obligation to restrain their anger. Perceived violation of this “emotional regime” might be used to justify political regime change. A number of passages in the Crónica de Alfonso X depict the king of Castile-León, Alfonso X el Sabio (r. 1252–1284), as having repeatedly violated the norms governing the expression of anger, in order to legitimise the rebellion led by his eldest surviving son, Sancho. However, the more reliable passages in the chronicle suggest a different emotional narrative, implying that the king had behaved with restraint in the political realm, even at moments of high political tension. In these passages, Alfonso emerges as a ruler philosophically inclined towards conciliation rather than to conflict. This case study provides new historical material for thinking about the relationship between cognition and emotion.","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"27 1","pages":"61 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82554431","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}