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Diplomatics in the Eastern Mediterranean 1000–1500: Aspects of Cross-Cultural Communication

Diplomatics in the Eastern Mediterranean 1000–1500: Aspects of Cross-Cultural Communication 106 Book Reviews Diplomatics in the Eastern Mediterranean 1000–1500: Aspects of Cross- Cultural Communication ALEXANDER D. BEIHAMMER,MARIA G. PARANI and CHRISTOPHER D. SCHABEL (Eds), 2008 [The Medieval Mediterranean, 74] Leiden: Brill xvi + 467pp. €120.00 (hardback) ISBN 9789004165472 This exemplary and extremely stimulating volume is based on a colloquium that was organised by the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus in April 2006. The main aim of the conference’s organisers, as A.D. Beiham- mer explains in his introductory article “Eastern Mediterranean Diplomatics: The Present State of Research” (pp. 1–24), is to present Byzantine, Latin and Arabic archives from the Eastern Mediterranean for the period 1000–1500, taking into account how their form and content impact on their usability for historians. However, as one can see from the title, in most contributions, aspects of linguistic communication between the representatives of the various peoples who lived or ruled in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean also play an important role. Bei- hammer’s introduction gives a useful overview of the Greek and Latin documents. There are nineteen essays in total, divided into three parts. All cite relevant recent international bibliography. The first section, “Archival Sources for the Latin East”, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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© 2014 Spyros P. Panagopoulos
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106 Book Reviews Diplomatics in the Eastern Mediterranean 1000–1500: Aspects of Cross- Cultural Communication ALEXANDER D. BEIHAMMER,MARIA G. PARANI and CHRISTOPHER D. SCHABEL (Eds), 2008 [The Medieval Mediterranean, 74] Leiden: Brill xvi + 467pp. €120.00 (hardback) ISBN 9789004165472 This exemplary and extremely stimulating volume is based on a colloquium that was organised by the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus in April 2006. The main aim of the conference’s organisers, as A.D. Beiham- mer explains in his introductory article “Eastern Mediterranean Diplomatics: The Present State of Research” (pp. 1–24), is to present Byzantine, Latin and Arabic archives from the Eastern Mediterranean for the period 1000–1500, taking into account how their form and content impact on their usability for historians. However, as one can see from the title, in most contributions, aspects of linguistic communication between the representatives of the various peoples who lived or ruled in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean also play an important role. Bei- hammer’s introduction gives a useful overview of the Greek and Latin documents. There are nineteen essays in total, divided into three parts. All cite relevant recent international bibliography. The first section, “Archival Sources for the Latin East”,

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