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<p>List of Figures viii</p> <p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>Acknowledgements xiv</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /><i>Peregrine Horden</i></p> <p><b>Part I Climate and Vegetation 9</b></p> <p>1 The Mediterranean Climate 11<br /><i>Fredric Cheyette</i></p> <p>2 The Vegetative Mediterranean 26<br /><i>Paolo Squatriti</i></p> <p><b>Part II Turning Points and Phases 43</b><br /><br />3 Mediterranean "Prehistory" 45<br /><i>Cyprian Broodbank</i></p> <p>4 The Ancient Mediterranean 59<br /><i>Nicholas Purcell</i></p> <p>5 The Medieval Mediterranean 77<br /><i>Dominique Valérian</i></p> <p>6 The Early Modern Mediterranean 91<br /><i>Molly Greene</i></p> <p>7 Mediterranean Modernity? 107<br /><i>Naor Ben-Yehoyada</i></p> <p>8 Po-Mo Med 122<br /><i>Michael Herzfeld</i></p> <p><b>Part III Politics and Power 137</b></p> <p>9 Thalassocracies 139<br /><i>David Abulafia</i></p> <p>10 Nautical Technology 154<br /><i>Ruthy Gertwagen</i></p> <p>11 Piracy 170<br /><i>Clifford R. Backman</i></p> <p>12 Cartography 184<br /><i>Emilie Savage-Smith</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Settlement and Society 201</b></p> <p>13 Settlement Patterns 203<br /><i>John Bintliff</i></p> <p>14 Cave Dwelling 219<br /><i>Valerie Ramseyer</i></p> <p>15 Family and Household 234<br /><i>Paola Sacchi and Pier Paolo Viazzo</i></p> <p>16 Disease 250<br /><i>Robert Sallares</i></p> <p>17 Forms of Slavery 263<br /><i>Youval Rotman</i></p> <p><b>Part V Language and Culture 279</b></p> <p>18 Material Culture 281<br /><i>Tehmina Goskar</i></p> <p>19 Visual Culture 296<br /><i>Cecily J. Hilsdale</i></p> <p>20 Mediterranean Literature 314<br /><i>Sharon Kinoshita</i></p> <p>21 Lingua Franca 330<br /><i>Karla Mallette</i></p> <p>22 Hybridity 345<br /><i>Steven A. Epstein</i></p> <p><b>Part VI Religions in Conflict and Co-existence 359</b></p> <p>23 Ethno-Religious Minorities 361<br /><i>Brian A. Catlos</i></p> <p>24 Shared Sacred Places 378<br /><i>Maria Couroucli</i></p> <p>25 Jews 392<br /><i>Fred Astren</i></p> <p><b>Part VII the Mediterranean and a Wider World 409</b></p> <p>26 The Mediterranean and the Atlantic 411<br /><i>Teofilo F. Ruiz</i></p> <p>27 The Mediterranean and Africa 425<br /><i>Ray A. Kea</i></p> <p>28 The Mediterranean and Asia 441<br /><i>Nicholas Doumanis</i></p> <p>29 The Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean 457<br /><i>Elizabeth Ann Pollard</i></p> <p>Index 475</p>

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<p><b>Sharon Kinoshita</b> is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is Co-Director of the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies, and Co-Director of the UC Multicampus Research Project in Mediterranean Studies. Her publications include <i>Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature</i> (2006).</p> <p><b>Peregrine Horden</b> is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is co-author, with Nicholas Purcell, of <i>The Corrupting Sea</i> (2000), and author of <i>Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages</i> (2008).</p>

<p><i>A Companion to Mediterranean History</i> presents the first authoritative overview of this diverse and vibrant field of historical research. Featuring contributions from leading experts in various strands of Mediterranean research - including history, anthropology, archaeology and art history - essays cover developments in the region from Neolithic times to the modern era.</p> <p>Mediterranean history has never been more widely debated or practised, yet there remains no consensus about precisely how this history should be written, the definition of its parameters, or the breadth of topics it should include. In summarising the latest scholarship and reappraising key concepts, contributors to this volume enable fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue on subjects ranging from climate and cartography to material culture and heritage politics. <i>A Companion to Mediterranean History</i> represents an invaluable guide to the current state of Mediterranean scholarship that will also help to redefine the field for a new generation.</p>

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