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Marilyn J. Chiat and Kathryn L. Reyerson, eds.
The Medieval Mediterranean: Cross-Cultural Contacts [festchrift for Carl D. Sheppard].
Published St. Cloud: North Star Press of St. Cloud, 1988.
Series: Medieval Studies at Minnesota [Medieval Cultures], 3.
ISBN 0878390490 / 0816620075.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Sentinel Printing Co., Sauk Rapids, Minn.
Size: 214x274x9mm.
Page count: text xvii,133pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs and creases on the covers, some wear at the edges and corners; pages starting to yellow with age; the spine is a bit scuffed and wrinkled, but not creased from reading; text appears to be free of marking.

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[Listed by publisher as out of print]
Weight without packaging: 529g.

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Contents:
Chiat, Tribute to Carl D. Sheppard;
Grabar, Meaning of the dome of the Rock;
Nicholson, Myths of Mediterranean life;
Havener, 2 early anecdotes concerning Gregory the Great from Greek tradition;
Asher, Public baths of Spain — architectural study;
Bloom, Revival of early Islamic architecture by the Umayyads of Spain;
Mills, Scenario for a Roman provenance for the mosque of Córdóba;
Mintz, Carpet pages of the Spanish-Hebrew Farhi Bible;
Walton, 3 Hebrew children in the fiery furnace — a study in Christian iconography;
Kleinbauer, Pre-Carolingian concepts of architectural planning;
Estow, Iberia & North Africa — comparative view of religious heterodoxy;
Meyerson, Prostitution of Muslim women in the kingdom of Valencia;
Sokolow, Arabic books in Jewish libraries;
MacCoull, Coptic alchemy & craft technology in Islamic Egypt;
Noonan, Technology transfer between Byzantium & eastern Europe — glass industry in Russia;
Van D'Elden, Contact with the Mediterranean world in medieval German narrative;
Weiss, Travels to the Holy Land as reflected in published accounts of German pilgrims.

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Illustrations: monochrome illustrations throughout, plus 8 pages of colour plates
Maps & plans: 14
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: Selected publications of Carl D. Sheppard
Index: no

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