Spanning the Strait: Studies in Unity in the Western Mediterranean

Spanning the Strait: Studies in Unity in the Western Mediterranean brings together a multi-disciplinary collection of essays that examines the deep connections that bound together the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghrib in the medieval and early modern periods. Six articles on topics ranging from the eighth-century slave trade to sixteenth-century apocalypticism trace and analyze movement, mutual influence and patterns shared in the face of political, religious, and cultural difference. By tr...