Windows into the Medieval Mediterranean

Jeanette M. Fregulia, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, Carroll College, Helena, Montana. Her research interests include merchants and trade in the pre-modern Mediterranean. Her most recent publication is A Rich and Tantalizing Brew: A History of How Coffee Connected the World (2019).

Part 1: Archaeology and Architecture

1.Cross-cultural Encounters on Byzantine Islands (ca.600–ca.900): An Archaeological Perspective

Zavagno, Luca

Part 2: Stories of Travel and Encounter

2. Cultural Interconnectedness Between China and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages

Broilo, Federica A.

3. Between the Sands of the Sahara and the Waves of the Mediterranean: The Fleet as a Model of Political and Economic Expansion of the Almoravid Empire (508/1115–541/1147)

Lourinho, Inês

Part 3: Literature and Poetry

4. A Collection of Indian Fables Across Medieval Mediterranean Cultures

Carretero-Martínez, Gonzalo

5. The Depiction of Morals and Virtues in Renaissance Poetry

Wirth, Matthew

6. Human and Nonhuman “Others” in Chrétien’s Yvain

White, Victoria

Part 4: Matters of Faith

7. Discord and Concord on the Basis of Faith Between the East Syriac and Byzantine Churches in the Early Medieval Mediterranean World

Popa, Catalin-Stefan

8. Traveling Hagiography: The Exchange of Saints' Lives Across the Medieval Mediterranean

Politano, Cristina

Part 5: Crusades

9. The Crusader States in the Foreign Policy of the First Mamluks

Filipau, Aliaksandr

10. “God Wills It”: Pope Urban II, the Anti-Pope Clement III, and the Reasons for the First Crusade

Woodson, Hue

Part 6: Monarchies and Conflict

11. “May God Destroy the Spanish,” North African Sixteenth Century Ottomanophilia Through Mapmaking

Kahlaoui, Tarek

12. The Nasrid Sultanate of Granada, and the Frontier (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries)

Carrasco-Melo, Diego

13. A Crown for Queen Isabella: Symbols, Contested Authority, and Royal Intervention in Early Modern Granada

Morera, Luis X.

Part 7: Ties That Bind

14. The Macedonian Dynasty: Marriage and Politics in the Third/Ninth Century

Panagiotou, Stavros

15. A Woman's Affair: Dowries in Genoese Chios in the Late Middle Ages

Ravera, Chiara

16. Byzantines and Brides: Negotiating Romanness and Kinship Across Frontiers

Magnolia, Alex

Part 8: Around the Mediterranean World

17. Disease in the Medieval Mediterranean

Thacker, Brenda

18. Between Baghdad and The Mediterranean

PreJean, Chris

19. Nomads in the Medieval Mediterranean: Mobility and Counter-Mobility in a Changing World

Freeman, Margaret Helen

20. Unwilling Migrants: Slave Trade Between the Balkan Peninsula and the Mediterranean Between 1280 and 1350

Stojkovski , Boris

21. Piracy in the Medieval Mediterranean

Parker, Matthew E.

22. Conclusion: An Ending and Maybe a Beginning