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Purity lost : transgressing boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000-1400 / Steven A. Epstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epstein, Steven, 1952-
- Series:
- Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 124th ser., 3.
- The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 124th ser., 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural relations.
- Middle East--Relations.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Epstein reveals the modern view of cultural, ethnic, and religious purity in the early modern Mediterranean as a mirage, and he offers new insights into how present-day conceptions about creed, color, ethnicity, and language originated.
- Contents:
- The perception of difference
- Mixed relationships in the archipelago
- Treaties and diplomacy
- Renegades and opportunists
- Human and angelic faces.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9212-0
- 1-4356-9208-X
- OCLC:
- 923193058
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