...John Jeffries Martin This special issue investigates some of the ways in which Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — the three major religions of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean — intersected one another. Focusing variously on travelers, runaways, merchants, missionaries, and warriors...

...Shayne Aaron Legassie In spite of its violent origins, medieval chivalry provided rich imaginative resources for bridging ethnic, religious, and linguistic divisions. Pero Tafur’s Andanças (ca. 1453) relates the travels of one Castilian knight through the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Tafur’s...

... provides political legitimization in large part because of her unparalleled trans-Mediterranean reach. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 a Magical Politics from Poitou to Armenia: Mélusine, Jean de Berry...

...Grant Parker Duke University Press 2007 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. a Mapping the Mediterranean Grant Parker...

...Palmira Brummett Duke University Press 2007 a Visions of the Mediterranean: A Classification Palmira Brummett University of Tennessee...

...Robert Davis Duke University Press 2007 a The Geography of Slaving in the Early Modern Mediterranean, 1500 – 1800 Robert Davis...

...Daniel Vitkus Duke University Press 2007 a Adventuring Heroes in the Mediterranean: Mapping the Boundaries of Anglo-Islamic Exchange...

...Sharon Kinoshita; Jason Jacobs Duke University Press 2007 a Ports of Call: Boccaccio’s Alatiel in the Medieval Mediterranean Sharon Kinoshita and Jason Jacobs...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; Suzanne M. Yeager Saewulf’s Relatio de situ Jerusalem is one of the most significant yet understudied pilgrim texts of the twelfth century. Documenting the Jerusalem-bound traveler’s adventures through the medieval Mediterranean, the text is the first extant pilgrim...

... in which religious, social, and political boundaries were drawn and redrawn in what is now understood as a circum-Mediterranean “Age of Confessionalization” reveals the historical contingency of these boundaries themselves. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

... of Odysseus’ wan- derings from Troy back to Ithaka illustrates a recognition among some of Homer’s ancient critics that there was no Mediterranean portolano to guide the reader from Kythera to Ithaka. Aristotle made a very similar quip about Plato’s Atlantis, when he said that the same poet who created...

... Aers and Sarah Beckwith for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: 1. Editions and translations 2. Medicine, science, and technology 3. Animalia 4. Formations of empire, nation, and state 5. The Mediterranean 6...

... by scholars for being repetitive, imper- sonal, and lacking originality. The German priest Ludolf of Sudheim, who wrote about his travels to the eastern Mediterranean islands and the Holy Land in the fourteenth century, has not been spared by such anachronistic and unproductive judgment, since it has been...

... Travel in the Mediterranean: Converts, Kings, and Christian Knights in Pero Tafur’s Andanças  5 1 5  –  4 4 Martin, John Jeffries Crossing Religious Boundaries in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean  459 – 62 Martin, John Jeffries Marranos and Nicodemites in Sixteenth-­Century Venice...

... between “history” and “theory” in the study of premodern Western culture. Deadline for submission of manuscripts: March 1, 2010 Identity and Religion in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Volume 41 / Number 3 / Fall 2011 Edited by John Jeffries Martin Boccaccio offered...

... httpmedren.aas.duke.edu/jmems Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 40:2, Spring 2010 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2009-029  © 2010 by Duke University Press Identity and Religion in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Volume 41 / Number 3 / Fall 2011 Edited by John Jeffries Martin...

... on the Mediterranean, an Anglo-Ottoman alliance could be received as scandalous and, more significantly, treasonous to the “common corps of Christendom.”35 This situation was further aggravated by Elizabeth’s status as a heretic to the Catholic Church ever since her excommunication...

... and Early Modern Mediterranean Volume 41 / Number 3 / Fall 2011 Edited by John Jeffries Martin Boccaccio offered a celebrated description of the interrelations of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in his story of The Three Rings (Decameron I.iii). But his observation that these religions are so much...

... editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: 1. Editions and translations 2. Reference 3. Biographical studies 4. Corporeality 5. Inquisition and transgression 6. The Mediterranean world 7. Islamic studies 8. Warfare 9...

... for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: 1. Editions and translations 2. Reference 3. Historiography, historians, and critical theory 4. Biographical studies 5. The Mediterranean 6. Urban lives 7. Church and reform...