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Forgotten Connections? Medieval Material Culture and Exchange in the Central and Western Mediterranean

Forgotten Connections? Medieval Material Culture and Exchange in the Central and Western... Al-Masa¯q, 2013 Vol. 25, No. 1, 1–8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2013.767010 Forgotten Connections? Medieval Material Culture and Exchange in the Central and Western Mediterranean ALEXANDER METCALFE and MARIAM ROSSER-OWEN This special issue takes as its theme the interconnections of material culture and exchange across the central and western Mediterranean encompassed by the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa (Libya, Ifr¯ ıqiya and the western Maghrib), Sicily and southern Italy. Our chronological focus is the long medieval period, whose parameters here are from the first/seventh to the ninth/fifteenth century. By presenting studies that prioritise connections and comparisons between these areas our aim is to contribute to an increasingly inter-regional trend in historical research, which seeks to move beyond insular studies focused on singular geopolitical entities to investigate interconnectivity in an impartial way, as advocated by Horden and Purcell in The Corrupting Sea. By focusing “impartially” on the central and western Mediterranean regions, scholars are forced to give due attention to the role of North Africa, a key economic and cultural region in its own right but also significant for its links to the rest of the Mediterranean. This region has been side-lined in art historical studies of recent decades, although much data for the exchange http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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Al-Masa¯q, 2013 Vol. 25, No. 1, 1–8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2013.767010 Forgotten Connections? Medieval Material Culture and Exchange in the Central and Western Mediterranean ALEXANDER METCALFE and MARIAM ROSSER-OWEN This special issue takes as its theme the interconnections of material culture and exchange across the central and western Mediterranean encompassed by the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa (Libya, Ifr¯ ıqiya and the western Maghrib), Sicily and...
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Al-Masa¯q, 2013 Vol. 25, No. 1, 1–8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2013.767010 Forgotten Connections? Medieval Material Culture and Exchange in the Central and Western Mediterranean ALEXANDER METCALFE and MARIAM ROSSER-OWEN This special issue takes as its theme the interconnections of material culture and exchange across the central and western Mediterranean encompassed by the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa (Libya, Ifr¯ ıqiya and the western Maghrib), Sicily and southern Italy. Our chronological focus is the long medieval period, whose parameters here are from the first/seventh to the ninth/fifteenth century. By presenting studies that prioritise connections and comparisons between these areas our aim is to contribute to an increasingly inter-regional trend in historical research, which seeks to move beyond insular studies focused on singular geopolitical entities to investigate interconnectivity in an impartial way, as advocated by Horden and Purcell in The Corrupting Sea. By focusing “impartially” on the central and western Mediterranean regions, scholars are forced to give due attention to the role of North Africa, a key economic and cultural region in its own right but also significant for its links to the rest of the Mediterranean. This region has been side-lined in art historical studies of recent decades, although much data for the exchange

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