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Cultural brokers at Mediterranean courts in the Middle Ages / Marc von der Höh, Nikolas Jaspert, Jenny Rahel Oesterle (eds.).
- Title
- Cultural brokers at Mediterranean courts in the Middle Ages / Marc von der Höh, Nikolas Jaspert, Jenny Rahel Oesterle (eds.).
- Publication
- München : Wilhelm Fink ; Paderborn : Ferdinand Schöningh, [2013]
- ©2013
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- Description
- 282 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "People of the most diverse origins, functions and religious affiliations gathered at Christian and Muslim courts in the Medieval Mediterranean: Diplomats, scholars, artists, merchants and pilgrims came as visitors and encountered a wide spectrum of court officials such as administrative personnel, translators, religious experts, the ruler’s confidants, not to forget the Royal family itself. A wide range of religious backgrounds can be discerned, and arguably communication took place between these agents at court, who therefore transcended cultural borders. The articles in this volume focus these 'cultural brokers' and their importance for processes of mediaeval entanglement. In a sweeping survey covering the entire Mediterranean and its hinterland, the thirteen papers deal with the courts of the Abbassids, the Ilkhans, the Fatimids and the Byzantines as well as with the courts of Rhodes, Cyprus, Aragon, Castile, Granada, Venice and Rome. Different forms and agents of brokerage are analysed, particular attention being paid to modes and means of inter-religious contact. By taking both the northern and southern rim of the Mediterranean into account, this volume extends our view of mediaeval court cultures and opens the field for transcultural comparisons"--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Mittelmeerstudien ; Band 1
- Uniform Title
- Mittelmeerstudien (Paderborn, Germany) ; Bd. 1.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- Note
- Proceedings of the conference "Cultural brokers between religions : border-crossers and experts at Mediterranean courts", held Oct. 28-30, 2010 in Bochum, Germany.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Courts, brokers and brokerage in the medieval Mediterranean / Marc von der Höh, Nikolas Jaspert, Jenny Oesterle -- Jews at the Mongol court in Iran : cultural brokers or minor actors in a cultural boom? / Reuven Amitai -- The emergence of an Islamic culture in early Abbasid Iraq : the role of non-Arab contributions / Wolfram Drews -- Missionaries as cultural brokers at the Fatimid court in Cairo / Jenny Oesterle -- Trujamanes and scribes : interpreting mediation in Iberian royal courts / Ana Echevarría -- Love without borders : Jewish and Muslim paramours in 13th and 14th century Castile / Barbara Schlieben -- Mendicants, Jews and Muslims at court in the Crown of Aragon : social practice and inter-religious communication / Nikolas Jaspert -- Experts, border-crossers and cultural brokers : the knowledge of Islam and contacts to Islamic cultures at the Curia in the 15th century / Claudia Märtl -- Muslim embassies in Renaissance Venice : the framework of an intercultural dialogue / Marc von der Höh -- Cultural brokers in relation with the Byzantine court in the later 14th and 15th centuries / Sebastian Kolditz -- The vice-chancellors of the Hospitallers on Rhodes / Jürgen Sarnowsky -- Cultural brokers at the court of Lusignan Cyprus / Nicholas Coureas -- Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages / Michael Borgolte.
- ISBN
- 9783506775597 (Schöningh : hd.bd.)
- 3506775596 (Schöningh : hd.bd.)
- 9783770553648 (Fink : hd.bd.)
- 3770553640 (Fink : hd.bd.)
- OCLC
- 856902564
- SCSB-12632733
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library