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The Aghlabids and Their Neighbours: Art and Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa

The Aghlabids and Their Neighbours: Art and Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa 334 BOOK REVIEWS des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome volumes. He has utilised the recovered archival evi- dence to delve beyond the surface level of prohibitions to investigate the implementation and employment of these in practice. The trade licences, issued by the popes in Avignon – here mainly those of John XXII and Clement VI – communicate little inherently and individually. Yet, taken together, Carr shows that they can yield quantitatively and qualitatively significant details regarding both the practicalities of eastern Mediterranean trade in this era, and insights into the crusading agendas of both the popes and the merchant crusaders. Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean builds on scholarship of the later crusading period pioneered as such by Norman Housely. Its argument allows for the nuance that much other recent scholar- ship permits, in which the monolithic “Muslims” and “Christians” of traditional historiography and current popular culture are challenged. It is instead recognised that contemporaries interacted with each other variously, and that Christians could often be in alliance with some Muslims and in opposition to other Christians, and vice-versa. Carr does not discard religious motivations, as has traditionally been the tendency of economic – and even some Crusade – http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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334 BOOK REVIEWS des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome volumes. He has utilised the recovered archival evi- dence to delve beyond the surface level of prohibitions to investigate the implementation and employment of these in practice. The trade licences, issued by the popes in Avignon – here mainly those of John XXII and Clement VI – communicate little inherently and individually. Yet, taken together, Carr shows that they can yield quantitatively...
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© 2018 Sarah Davis-Secord
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1473-348X
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0950-3110
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10.1080/09503110.2018.1521587
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334 BOOK REVIEWS des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome volumes. He has utilised the recovered archival evi- dence to delve beyond the surface level of prohibitions to investigate the implementation and employment of these in practice. The trade licences, issued by the popes in Avignon – here mainly those of John XXII and Clement VI – communicate little inherently and individually. Yet, taken together, Carr shows that they can yield quantitatively and qualitatively significant details regarding both the practicalities of eastern Mediterranean trade in this era, and insights into the crusading agendas of both the popes and the merchant crusaders. Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean builds on scholarship of the later crusading period pioneered as such by Norman Housely. Its argument allows for the nuance that much other recent scholar- ship permits, in which the monolithic “Muslims” and “Christians” of traditional historiography and current popular culture are challenged. It is instead recognised that contemporaries interacted with each other variously, and that Christians could often be in alliance with some Muslims and in opposition to other Christians, and vice-versa. Carr does not discard religious motivations, as has traditionally been the tendency of economic – and even some Crusade –

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Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Taylor & Francis

Published: Sep 2, 2018

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