Cultural brokers at mediterranean courts in the middle ages / / edited by Marc von der Höh, Nikolas Jaspert, Jenny Rahel Oesterle.

• Superior document: Mittelmeerstudien; volume1
• Author: Cultural Brokers between Religions. Border-Crossers and Experts at Mediterranean Courts
• TeilnehmendeR: Oesterle, Jenny Rahel,; Jaspert, Nikolas,; Höh, Marc von der,; Cultural Brokers between Religions. Border-Crossers and Experts at Mediterranean Courts (2010 : Bochum, Germany)
• Place / Publishing House: München, Germany ; : Wilhelm Fink :, Paderborn, Germany : : Ferdinand Schöningh,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Mittelmeerstudien (Paderborn, Germany) ; Bd. 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Proceedings of a conference held Oct. 28-30, 2010 in Bochum, Germany.

Menschen verschiedener Herkunft, Religion und Funktion traten an den islamischen und christlichen Höfen des Mittelmeerraums miteinander in Kontakt: Gesandte, Gelehrte, Künstler und Kaufleute begegneten Verwaltungsbeamten, Vertrauten des Herrschers, Dolmetschern, Religions- und Rechtsexperten. Die Be...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Marc Von der Höh, Nikolas Jaspert and Jenny Rahel Oesterle
• Preface / Marc Von der Höh, Nikolas Jaspert and Jenny Rahel Oesterle
• Courts, Brokers and Brokerage in the Medieval Mediterranean / Marc Von der Höh, Nikolas Jaspert and Jenny Rahel 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 Echevarria
• 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
• Index.