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The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia: Architecture and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba

The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia: Architecture and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba Book Reviews 321 renew the vision we have of this world and this volume itself provides a new perspective on the importance of actors involved in processes of cultural exchange. AURELIEN MONTEL Université Lumière, Lyon, France aurelien.montel@gmail.com © 2014, Aurelien Montel http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2014.956478 The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia: Architecture and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba GLAIRE D. ANDERSON, 2013 Farnham: Ashgate xiv + 225 pp. £65.00 (hardback) ISBN 9781409449430 This important and richly-illustrated book argues that the Munya estates of early medieval Córdoba can legitimately be described as “villas” and that the social, pol- itical and economic practices that grew up around them can be labelled as a “villa culture” as defined by the standards of the Roman Empire and the Italian Renais- sance. Anderson pursues this argument in reaction to the long-standing under- standing of the medieval period in Spain and elsewhere in the Mediterranean as lacking the attributes of Classical villa culture. Anderson’smethodisinterdisci- plinary in approach and implication. She scours the records of recent archaeologi- cal excavations and long-known written sources to construct an account of the Munya estates of early medieval Islamic Iberia that will be of interest to art, archi- tectural, landscape and economic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia: Architecture and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba

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Book Reviews 321 renew the vision we have of this world and this volume itself provides a new perspective on the importance of actors involved in processes of cultural exchange. AURELIEN MONTEL Université Lumière, Lyon, France aurelien.montel@gmail.com © 2014, Aurelien Montel http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2014.956478 The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia: Architecture and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba GLAIRE D. ANDERSON, 2013 Farnham: Ashgate xiv + 225...
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Book Reviews 321 renew the vision we have of this world and this volume itself provides a new perspective on the importance of actors involved in processes of cultural exchange. AURELIEN MONTEL Université Lumière, Lyon, France aurelien.montel@gmail.com © 2014, Aurelien Montel http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2014.956478 The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia: Architecture and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba GLAIRE D. ANDERSON, 2013 Farnham: Ashgate xiv + 225 pp. £65.00 (hardback) ISBN 9781409449430 This important and richly-illustrated book argues that the Munya estates of early medieval Córdoba can legitimately be described as “villas” and that the social, pol- itical and economic practices that grew up around them can be labelled as a “villa culture” as defined by the standards of the Roman Empire and the Italian Renais- sance. Anderson pursues this argument in reaction to the long-standing under- standing of the medieval period in Spain and elsewhere in the Mediterranean as lacking the attributes of Classical villa culture. Anderson’smethodisinterdisci- plinary in approach and implication. She scours the records of recent archaeologi- cal excavations and long-known written sources to construct an account of the Munya estates of early medieval Islamic Iberia that will be of interest to art, archi- tectural, landscape and economic

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