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• An in-depth portrait of the Crusades-era Mediterranean world, and a new understanding of the forces that shaped it. In Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors, the award-winning scholar Brian Catlos puts us on the ground in the Mediterranean world of 1050-1200. We experience the sights and sounds of the region just as enlightened Islamic empires and primitive Christendom began to contest it. We learn about the siege tactics, theological disputes, and poetry of this enthralling time. And we see that people of different faiths coexisted far more frequently than we are commonly told. Catlos’s meticulous reconstruction of the era allows him to stunningly overturn our most basic assumption about it: that it was defined by religious extremism. He brings to light many figures who were accepted as rulers by their ostensible foes. Samuel B. Naghrilla, a self-proclaimed Jewish messiah, became the force behind Muslim Granada. Bahram Pahlavuni, an Armenian Christian, wielded power in an Islamic caliphate. And Philip of Mahdia, a Muslim eunuch, rose to admiral in the service of Roger II, the Christian King of Africa. What their lives reveal is that, then as now, politics were driven by a mix of self-interest, personality, and ideology. Catlos draws a similar lesson from his stirring chapters on the early Crusades, arguing that the notions of crusade and jihad were not causes of war but justifications. He imparts a crucial insight: the violence of the past cannot be blamed primarily on religion — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• The Mediterranean world — The (Jewish) man who would be king. An ornament, tarnished the rules of the game — A Christian sultan in the age of The reconquest. The Cid rides again Rodrigo Díaz, Taifa King of Valencia — Kings of Sicily, kings of Africa. A Norman conquest Don’t ask, don’t tell — Infidel rules of a heretical caliphate. After the Messiah Traitors and spies — Ambition, opportunism, and the end of an era. A heavenly kingdom? Jerusalem restored — The decline and fall of the Roman empire — Holy war, a user’s manual.

Subjects:

• Mediterranean Region — History — 476-1517.
• Crusades.
• Crusades — Influence.
• Mediterranean Region. fast (OCoLC)fst01239752
• 476 – 1517 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Originally published: 1998.
• Entries are now taken from the fourth edition (2012) of the Oxford classical dictionary. –Page viii.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 866-867).

Subjects:

• Classical dictionaries.
• Mediterranean Region — Civilization — Dictionaries.
• Mediterranean Region. fast (OCoLC)fst01239752
• Dictionaries. fast (OCoLC)fst01423826

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.
• Classical archaeology: the handmaid of history ? — The rediscovery of the past — The opening up of Greece — Philological archaeology — The birth of prehistory — Theory wars — Delphic vapours — The triumph of science? — The Delphic oracle — The geology of the site — Inspired mantic or fraudulent puppet? — The Persian destruction of Eretria — A tale of two temples — Yet another temple? — Unmooring fixed points — Science to the rescue? — Eleusis, the oath of Plataia, and the peace of Kallias — The archaios neos at Eleusis — The oath of Plataia — The peace of Kallias — Restoring the sanctuaries of Attica — Sokrates in the Athenian agora — The house of Simon — The state prison — Sokrates on death row — The tombs at Vergina — The discovery of the tombs — The political dimension — Aigeai and Vergina — The occupants of tomb II — The tomb and its contents — A third possibility — The city of Romulus — Untangling the foundation myths of Rome — Romulus and Remus — The early kings materialized? — State formation and urbanization — The birth of the Roman republic — The temple of Jupiter Capitolinus — The fall of a tyrant — The nature of the kingship — The origins of the consulship — Etruscan Rome — Imperial austerity: the house of Augustus — The house unearthed — From dux to princeps — Reconciling the evidence — The bones of St. Peter — The discovery of the tomb — Beneath St. Peter’s — Peter in Rome — Peter on the Appian Way — Peter in Jerusalem — Postscript: the tomb of St. Philip — Conclusion: classical archaeology and the ancient historian — Navigating between textual and material evidence — Words and things — Bridging the great divide ?.

Subjects:

• Archaeology and history — Greece.
• Archaeology and history — Rome.
• Greece — Antiquities.
• Greece — Historiography.
• Rome — Antiquities.
• Rome — Historiography.
• Christian antiquities.
• Church history — Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

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Part of the series Key themes in ancient history;Key themes in ancient history.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-184) and index.
• Gender and the study of classical antiquity — Households — Demography — Bodies — Wealth — Space — Religion — Conclusions — Bibliographic essay.

Subjects:

• Greece — Civilization.
• Rome — Civilization.
• Classical antiquities.
• Gender identity — Greece.
• Gender identity — Rome.
• Sex role — Greece — History.
• Sex role — Rome — History.

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