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      • Volume 3: c.900-c.1024
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2008
      March 2000
      ISBN:
      9781139055727
      9780521364478
      9781107460584
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521364478
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.4kg, 891 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.19kg, 908 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, British History: General Interest, History, European Studies, European History 450-1000
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - British & European History
      Series:
      The New Cambridge Medieval History (3)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, British History: General Interest, History, European Studies, European History 450-1000
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - British & European History
    Series:
    The New Cambridge Medieval History (3)
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    The period of the tenth and early eleventh centuries was crucial in the formation of Europe, much of whose political geography and larger-scale divisions began to take shape at this time. It was also an era of great fragmentation, and hence of differences which have been magnified by modern national historiographical traditions. This volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History reflects these varying traditions, and provides an authoritative survey in its own terms. The volume is divided into three sections. The first covers general themes such as the economy, government, and religious, cultural, and intellectual life. The second is devoted to the kingdoms and principalities which had emerged within the area of the former Carolingian empire as well as the 'honorary Carolingian' region of England. The final section deals with the emergent principalities of eastern Europe and the new and established empires, states and statelets of the Mediterranean world.

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    ‘There can be no doubt that this meticulously edited volume offers a very valuable synthesis of current research, and deserves careful study.’

    Source: Journal of Ecclesiastical History

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    • 27 - Sicily and al-Andalus under Muslim rule
      pp 646-669
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      By the beginning of the tenth century Muslim expansion had come to an end in most areas of the Mediterranean world. In the western Mediterranean, Sicily, the Balearic Islands and much of the Iberian peninsula remained firmly in Muslim hands. Local autonomy in the centre and north of al-Andalus had long been a feature of the political life of Muslim Spain. For the next twenty years he was to be undisputed ruler of al-Andalus, a period which in some ways saw the apogee of Muslim Spain in terms of territorial security and internal peace and prosperity. In the tenth and early eleventh centuries, Sicily was an integral part of the Islamic world and was becoming increasingly populous and prosperous as time went on. Along with the Islamisation of Sicily went the continuing jihād in southern Italy. Muslim Sicily remained very much a conquest state.
    • 28 - The Spanish kingdoms
      pp 670-691
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      The Arab conquest of most of the Iberian peninsula in 711 destroyed the centralising governmental structures of the Visigothic monarchy and of the Spanish church. The deposition of Alfonso III of the Asturias by his son Garcia in 910 marks the formal divide between the Asturian and Leonese monarchies, but there was no break in dynastic continuity. Where in evidential terms the Leonese kingdom considerably excels its Asturian predecessor is in the survival of charters. The kings of Pamplona of the second dynasty, that of the Jiménez, are better known than their ninth-century Arista predecessors, but still appear shadowy in comparison with their Leonese contemporaries. To the west of the heartlands of the kingdom surrounding Pamplona lay the county of Aragón, which had been administered for the Navarrese monarchs by a line of hereditary counts since the early ninth century.

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