LEADER 03937nam 2200589 450 001 9910466254703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-1258-6 010 $a1-5017-1259-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501712593 035 $a(CKB)3710000001388294 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4866506 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001803927 035 $a(OCoLC)961098778 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse57103 035 $a(DE-B1597)492932 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501712593 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4866506 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11390688 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL1013024 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001388294 100 $a20170622h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhere three worlds met $eSicily in the early medieval Mediterranean /$fSarah Davis-Secord 210 1$aIthaca, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (316 pages) $cillustrations, maps 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a1-5017-0464-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tMaps and Illustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tTimeline -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Sicily between Constantinople and Rome -- $t2. Sicily between Byzantium and the Islamic World -- $t3. Sicily in the D?r al-Isl?m -- $t4. Sicily from the D?r al-Isl?m to Latin Christendom -- $t5. Sicily at the Center of the Mediterranean -- $tConclusion -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aSicily is a lush and culturally rich island at the center of the Mediterranean Sea. Throughout its history, the island has been conquered and colonized by successive waves of peoples from across the Mediterranean region. 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 by tracing the patterns of travel, trade, and communication among Christians (Latin and Greek), Muslims, and Jews. By looking at the island across this long expanse of time and during the periods of transition from one dominant culture to another, Davis-Secord uncovers the patterns that defined and redefined the broader Muslim-Christian encounter in the Middle Ages.Sicily was a nexus for cross-cultural communication not because of its geographical placement at the center of the Mediterranean but because of the specific roles the island played in a variety of travel and trade networks in the Mediterranean region. Complex combinations of political, cultural, and economic need transformed Sicily's patterns of connection to other nearby regions-transformations that were representative of the fundamental shifts that took place in the larger Mediterranean system during the Middle Ages. 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. 606 $aChristianity and other religions$xIslam 606 $aIslam$xRelations$xChristianity 607 $aSicily (Italy)$xHistory$yTo 1500 607 $aMediterranean Region$xHistory$y476-1517 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChristianity and other religions$xIslam. 615 0$aIslam$xRelations$xChristianity. 676 $a945.8/02 700 $aDavis-Secord$b Sarah C.$01051936 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466254703321 996 $aWhere three worlds met$92482826 997 $aUNINA