| Lost Civilization: The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal Contributor(s): Boone, James L. (Author), Hodges, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0715635689 ISBN-13: 9780715635681 Publisher: Bristol Classical Press OUR PRICE: $35.59 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2009 Annotation: Al-Andalus, the Iberian Islamic civilisation centred on C??rdoba in the 10th and 11th centuries, has been a lost??? civilisation in several respects. Its history suppressed or denied for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, it was regarded as a kind of ???historical parenthesis??? with no lasting influence. Over the past 25 years, however, the history and archaeology of the Islamic period in the Iberian peninsula has undergone a complete transformation. Lost Civilisation presents an introduction to this debate as it has played out in archaeology, taking a comparative civilisations approach that puts the formation of Al-Andalus in context with corresponding developments elsewhere in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Dewey: 946.008 |
| Series: Duckworth Debates in Archaeology |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.50 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Al-Andalus, the Iberian Islamic civilization centred on Cordoba in the tenth and eleventh centuries, has been a 'lost' civilization in several respects. Its history suppressed or denied for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it was regarded as a kind of 'historical parenthesis' with no lasting influence. Over the past twenty-five years, however, the history and archaeology of the Islamic period in the Iberian peninsula has undergone a complete transformation. Lost Civilization presents an introduction to this debate as it has played out in archaeology, taking a comparative civilizations approach that puts the formation of al-Andalus in context with corresponding developments elsewhere in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hodges, Richard: - Richard Hodges, OBE, is Professor and Director of the Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia, UK, and Director of the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, USA. He is the editor of the Debates in Archaeology series; and his publications include Dark Age Economics, The Anglo-Saxon Achievement, Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne, Goodbye to the Vikings and (as co-author) Villa to Village, all published by Bloomsbury. |