A Companion to Mediterranean History

index 477

culture, visual
art-historical taxonomy, 302
definition of, 297–298
lingua franca of, 306
and portability, 304
customs dues, 60
Cyprus, 53, 55
Cyrus the Great, 446

Decameron, Boccaccio, 321, 332
decolonization, 148
deforestation, in the Mediterranean,
29–31
Delos, 210
demography
coastland communities, 63
cycles of boom and bust, 210–211
demographic growth, 56
effects of disease, 257
rural population, 205
dhimmis, 365, 371, 373
disease
burden of, 257–258
chikungunya, 252
and climate, 250
leishmaniasis, 251
leprosy, 253
malaria, 251–254
Mediterranean as unit for study of, 250
pathocoenosis, 255, 256, 258
plague, 254–255
syphilis, 253
yellow fever, 253
dromōn, 160–161
Dubrovnik, 142
Dumas, Alexandre, 412

eclecticism, 347
Egypt
Mamluk, 86
and Mediterranean, 37, 443
Pharaonic, 51
emporia
ancient, 67–68
Majorcan, 145
Ottoman, 92
environment, Mediterranean
classic features appear, third millennium
bce, 50, 57
fragmentation of, 362
etruscans, 144

Europe, eastern, 96

European Union, 125, 131, 148

evil eye, 130

fairs, seasonal, 209

family and household, Mediterranean

in antiquity, 239–240

European divergence, 238–239

evidence for, 234–235

medieval Egypt, 241–242

Ottoman, 243

supposed continuity of, 240–241

variable forms of, 237–241

as welfare agencies, 244–246

see also marriage pattern

Fazzan, 426, 428–429

Islam in, 430, 434–435

Fertile Crescent, 48

film, 128

foggara, tunnels, 427, 429

fondaco, 67, 85, 88, 149–150

France in the Mediterranean, 101–102,

147, 420

funduq, see fondaco

galleys, 155

for horse transport, 161–162

Garamantes, 426–429

Geniza, Cairo, 142, 345, 398, 399–400

Genoa and Genoese

and Africa, 438

and the Atlantic, 308, 415–416

cartography, 194

competition for trade, 145, 163

connectivity, 209

in Constantinople, 150, 209–210

and the Crusades, 81–82

language, 315, 334

in literature, 321, 322

navigational technology, 161, 163–165

as pirates, 142, 180, 181, 321

and sea-power, 148, 150–151

and slavery, 271–272, 350

geography

ancient Greek conceptions of, 71–72

globalization, 129

gold

African trade, 79, 85–86, 93, 427–429,

432, 433, 435

artifacts, 215, 230, 288, 429

Asia trade, 450, 462, 465, 467, 468