A Companion to Mediterranean History

A Companion to Mediterranean History, First Edition. Edited by Peregrine Horden and Sharon Kinoshita.
© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2014 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Aaron of Baghdad, 394–395
Abbasids, 118, 270, 452, 463, 464,
467–469
Abraham ibn Daud, 396–397
Aelius Aristides, 33
Africa
Mediterranean, 48–49
Sahara as Mediterranean hinterland, 425,
430, 437, 439
see also Libya; Sahara
agricultural revolution, Arab, 36–37
agriculture, Mediterranean diffusion of,
48–49
Alexander Romance, 316, 324
Alexander the Great, 446, 463
Al-Idrisi, 190–191, 436, 461
Almoravids, 319, 435–436
Amalfi, 143
America, discovery of, 77, 92, 411
Anatolia, 93, 96
Andrić, Ivo, 116
antiquity, classical
chronology of, 72
evidence for, 60
how Mediterranean? 59
Apadana, Persepolis, 298–301
Apollonius of Tyre, 320–321
architecture
and Christian-Islamic contestation, 126
“Mediterranean,” 125–126
under post-modernity, 124

Asia, Central, trade of, see silk roads

Asia, West

Bronze Age in, 443

and Mediterranean, 442–444

Athens, ancient, 66

supply of, 207

Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean

early contacts, 413

and Islam, 415

in later Middle Ages, 415–416

and nautical technology, 417

and Ottomans, 419

Portuguese in, 421–422

and Romans, 413–414

sailing between, 412–413, 421

Barcelona Process, 2–3, 388

Barlaam and Josaphat, 316

Basil of Caesarea, 73–74

bell founding, 289

Benjamin of Tudela, 400–401

Black Death, 86, 95–96

Black Sea, 95–96, 97, 101, 102, 387, 459

Book of Curiosities, 191–194

Bourdieu, P., 113

Braudel, F., 2–3, 15, 26

and Greater Mediterranean, 425

and Latin Mediterranean, 147–148

and material culture, 284

and world economy, 422

Britain in the Mediterranean, 98–99, 141, 147

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