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Editorial AL-MASĀQ 2019, VOL. 31, NO. 2, 129–139 https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2019.1596645 The articles accompanying this one study a range of medieval island situations, varying in size, location, internal complexity, economic potential and political loyalties. The geographical range is similarly broad, encompassing the length of the Mediterranean Sea and stretching onwards into the Indian Ocean. This article therefore extracts comparisons from the articles its authors have here edited. Against a broader historiographical and theoretical background, it aims to isolate the common characteristics of what is here termed “islandness” and the key gradients along which those characteristics vary. These are identified as size and internal com- plexity, location within wider spaces, relationship to a frontier, and social position between connectivity and isolation. While most islands fit in this matrix, the category remains fuzzy; not all geographical islands were always “island-like” and some areas not surrounded by water were. The article thus sets up models of thinking about islands for comparison with other areas and periods. Many people and institutions have helped us to research and complete this endeavour. Indeed, this thematic issue stems from a selection of the papers delivered at a workshop held at Bilkent University in February 2018. The workshop was the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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AL-MASĀQ 2019, VOL. 31, NO. 2, 129–139 https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2019.1596645 The articles accompanying this one study a range of medieval island situations, varying in size, location, internal complexity, economic potential and political loyalties. The geographical range is similarly broad, encompassing the length of the Mediterranean Sea and stretching onwards into the Indian Ocean. This article therefore extracts comparisons from the articles its authors have here edited....
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AL-MASĀQ 2019, VOL. 31, NO. 2, 129–139 https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2019.1596645 The articles accompanying this one study a range of medieval island situations, varying in size, location, internal complexity, economic potential and political loyalties. The geographical range is similarly broad, encompassing the length of the Mediterranean Sea and stretching onwards into the Indian Ocean. This article therefore extracts comparisons from the articles its authors have here edited. Against a broader historiographical and theoretical background, it aims to isolate the common characteristics of what is here termed “islandness” and the key gradients along which those characteristics vary. These are identified as size and internal com- plexity, location within wider spaces, relationship to a frontier, and social position between connectivity and isolation. While most islands fit in this matrix, the category remains fuzzy; not all geographical islands were always “island-like” and some areas not surrounded by water were. The article thus sets up models of thinking about islands for comparison with other areas and periods. Many people and institutions have helped us to research and complete this endeavour. Indeed, this thematic issue stems from a selection of the papers delivered at a workshop held at Bilkent University in February 2018. The workshop was the

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