Arabic-Islamic views of the Latin West : tracing the emergence of medieval Europe /

Arabic-Islamic views of the Latin West : tracing the emergence of medieval Europe /

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The Emergence of Latin-Christian Europe provides an insight into how the Arabic-Islamic world perceived medieval Western Europe in an age that is usually associated with the rise and expansion of Islam, the Spanish Reconquista, and the Crusades. Previous scholarship has maintained that the Arabic-Is...

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Main Author: König, Daniel (Daniel G.) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
To 1500.
476-1492.
To 1500
Civilization, Medieval.
Civilization, Arab > Western influences.
Islamic civilization > Western influences.
Islam > Relations > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Islam.
Relations.
Christianity.
History.
Interfaith relations.
Arab countries > History.
Arab countries.
Europe > History > 476-1492.
Europe.
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Arabic-Islamic Records on Latin-Christian Europe 1
  • 1.1 Disputed Categorizations 1
  • 1.2 Sources 6
  • 1.3 State of Research 14
  • 2 An Evolving Information Landscape (7th-15th Centuries) 27
  • 2.1 Worlds Apart Become Acquainted (5th-8th Centuries) 27
  • 2.2 Neighbours (8th-15th Centuries) 44
  • 2.3 Entangled Spheres and their Arabic-Islamic Chroniclers 68
  • 3 Scholars at Work 72
  • 3.1 Absorptive Capacities 72
  • 3.2 The Linguistic Hurdle 80
  • 3.3 Acquiring Reliable Data on Latin-Christian Europe 92
  • 3.4 Contextualizing, Ordering, and Interpreting Data 105
  • 3.5 Obstacles of Transmission and Reception 112
  • 4 Discovery of the Roman West 114
  • 4.1 Disclosure of Imperial History (5th-10th Centuries) 114
  • 4.2 Explaining the Rise and Fall of the Roman West (10th-15th Centuries) 129
  • 4.3 From Byzantium to Rome 148
  • 5 The Visigoths: History of a Conquered People 150
  • 5.1 Roderic's Fall: The Conquerors' Perspective (7th-10th Centuries) 151
  • 5.2 Successors of Rome: The Latin-based Narrative (9th-11th Centuries) 158
  • 5.3 Conflicting Traditions: Late Compilations (13th-15th Centuries) 170
  • 5.4 A Heritage Gained Loses Appeal 184
  • Appendix: Arabic-Islamic Lists of Visigothic Rulers 185
  • 6 From the Franks to France 189
  • 6.1 Earliest Records on the Franks (7th-9th Centuries) 189
  • 6.2 New Vantage Points (8th-10th Centuries) 192
  • 6.3 Extensions of Frankish Rule (9th-14th Centuries) 201
  • 6.4 The Development of a Generic Term (10th-15th Centuries) 211
  • 6.5 Diversification: France and the Franks (13th-15th Centuries) 221
  • 6.6 Arabic-Islamic Versions of Frankish 'Ethnogenesis' 229
  • 7 From the Patriarch of Rome to the Pope 231
  • 7.1 Early Lack of Records (8th-9th Centuries) 231
  • 7.2 Fresh Information from the Border Zones (10th-13th Centuries) 239
  • 7.3 New Data Thanks to Latin-Christian Expansionism (12th-15th Centuries) 246
  • 7.4 The Popes Position within (Latin) Christendom (13th-15th Centuries) 257
  • 7.5 The Rise of an Institution 265
  • 8 The Expanding Latin-Christian Sphere 268
  • 8.1 The Documentary Effects of Expansionism (12th-15th Centuries) 268
  • 8.2 New Players on the Mediterranean Scene (9th-15th Centuries) 276
  • 8.3 Emerging Christian Realms of the Iberian Peninsula (9th-15th Centuries) 300
  • 8.4 A New Geopolitical Constellation 322
  • 9 A Re-evaluation of Arabic-Islamic Records on Latin-Christian Europe 323
  • 9.1 The Records' Origins: A Scholarly Milieu 323
  • 9.2 Mental Bairiers and the Role of Religious Ideology 325
  • 9.3 Variables of Transmission and Reception 328
  • 9.4 The Dynamics of Record-Keeping 331
  • 9.5 Essay in Comparative Analysis 336
  • 9.6 Unity and Diversity of the Latin-Christian Sphere 343.

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