Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (927 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501704648 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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The meanings and functions of Sicily’s positioning within these larger Mediterranean communications networks depended on the purposes to which the island was being put and how it functioned at the boundaries of the Greek, Latin, and Muslim worlds.. Complex combinations of political, cultural, and economic need transformed Sicily’s patterns of connection to other nearby regionstransformations that were representative of the fundamental shifts that took place in the larger Mediterranean system during the Middle Ages. In the early and central Middle Ages, the island was ruled and occupied in turn by Greek Christians, Muslims, and Latin Christians.In Where Three Worlds Met, Sarah Davis-Secord investigates Sicily's place within the religious, diplomatic, military, commercial, and intellectual networks of the Mediterranean
"Where Three Worlds Met is an ambitious and intelligent portrait of Sicily's place in Mediterranean life, a topic well worth undertaking. Located at the center of the Mediterranean, the island was not surprisingly the center of the various commercial, diplomatic, and cultural networks that spread throughout the basin."Clifford R. Backman, Boston University, author of The Decline and Fall of Medieval Sicily: Politics, Religion, and Economy in the Reign of Frederick III, 1296–1337
Sarah Davis-Secord is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.