Transmediterranean History
Transmediterranean History is a commented anthology of primary sources that aims at facilitating access to transmediterranean themes and their documentation roughly in the period between 600 and 1650. The anthology is published as a trilingual open access journal in German, English, and Arabic.
Before the Arabic-Islamic Expansion (until c. 636)
570: Contacts with the Pre-Islamic Arab World in the Pilgrimage Report of Antoninus Placentinus
575: A Hispano-Roman Visitor from the Visigothic Kingdom Observes Arab–Byzantine Relations
600: Pope Gregory the Great Intervenes in Favour of the Exiled Ǧafnid Ruler al-Munḏir b. al-Ḥāriṯ
621: Isidore of Seville on the Origins of the Term “Saracens”
Arabic-Islamic Expansion (c. 7th-9th cent.)
812: An Instruction from Charlemagne Concerning Immigrant Hispani
New Neighbours (c. 9th-11th cent.)
848: Decision to Expel the Muslims from the Langobard Duchies
973: Ibn Ḥawqal on Christian-Muslim Marriages in Sicily
984: Some Letters by Gerbert d’Aurillac Dealing with “Arabic” Mathematics and Astrology
1009: Adémar of Chabannes on the Destruction of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
1014–1043: Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr on Christian Love for ʿAlī
Latin-Christian Expansion (c. 11th-13th cent.)
1091: A Charter of Roger I for the Reorganisation of Sicily
1250: A Letter from the Regional Ruler al-Azraq to the Queen of Aragon