Part 1: Archaeology and Architecture 1.Cross-cultural Encounters on Byzantine Islands (ca.600 - ca.900): An Archaeological Perspective Zavagno, Luca Part 2: Stories of Travel and Encounter 2. Cultural Interconnectedness Between China and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages Broilo, Federica A. 3. Between the Sands of the Sahara and the Waves of the Mediterranean: The Fleet as a Model of Political and Economic Expansion of the Almoravid Empire (508/1115 -541/ 1147) Lourinho, Inês Part 3: Literature and Poetry 4. A Collection of Indian Fables Across Medieval Mediterranean Cultures Carretero-Martínez, Gonzalo 5.
The Depiction of Morals and Virtues in Renaissance Poetry Wirth, Matthew 6. Human and Nonhuman "Others" in Chrétien's Yvain White, Victoria Part 4: Matters of Faith 7. Discord and Concord on the Basis of Faith Between the East Syriac and Byzantine Churches in the Early Medieval Mediterranean World Popa, Catalin-Stefan 8. Traveling Hagiography: The Exchange of Saints' Lives Across the Medieval Mediterranean Politano, Cristina Part 5: Crusades 9. The Crusader States in the Foreign Policy of the First Mamluks Filipau, Aliaksandr 10. "God Wills It": Pope Urban II, the Anti-Pope Clement III, and the Reasons for the First Crusade Woodson, Hue Part 6: Monarchies and Conflict 11. " May God Destroy the Spanish ," North African Sixteenth Century Ottomanophilia Through Mapmaking Kahlaoui, Tarek 12. The Nasrid Sultanate of Granada, and the Frontier (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries) Carrasco-Melo, Diego 13.
A Crown for Queen Isabella: Symbols, Contested Authority, and Royal Intervention in Early Modern Granada Morera, Luis X. Part 7: Ties That Bind 14. The Macedonian Dynasty: Marriage and Politics in the Third/Ninth Century Panagiotou, Stavros 15. A Woman's Affair: Dowries in Genoese Chios in the Late Middle Ages Ravera, Chiara 16. Byzantines and Brides: Negotiating Romanness and Kinship Across Frontiers Magnolia, Alex Part 8: Around the Mediterranean World 17. Disease in the Medieval Mediterranean Thacker, Brenda 18. Between Baghdad and The Mediterranean PreJean, Chris 19. Nomads in the Medieval Mediterranean: Mobility and Counter-Mobility in a Changing World Freeman, Margaret Helen 20.
Unwilling Migrants: Slave Trade Between the Balkan Peninsula and the Mediterranean Between 1280 and 1350 Stojkovski , Boris 21. Piracy in the Medieval Mediterranean Parker, Matthew E. 22. Conclusion: An Ending and Maybe a Beginning.