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Texts from the Middle
Documents from the Mediterranean World, 6501650
Edited by THOMAS E. BURMAN, BRIAN A. CATLOS,
and MARK D. MEYERSON
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
University of California Press
Oakland, California
2022 by The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Burman, Thomas E., editor. | Catlos, Brian A., editor. | Meyerson, Mark D., editor.
Title: Texts from the middle : documents from the Mediterranean world, 6501650 / edited by Thomas E. Burman, Brian A. Catlos, and Mark D. Meyerson. Other titles: Documents from the Mediterranean world, 6501650
Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021054526 (print) | LCCN 2021054527 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520296534 (paperback) | ISBN 9780520969018 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Mediterranean RegionHistory4761517Sources. | Mediterranean RegionHistory15171789Sources. | BISAC: HISTORY / Europe / Medieval | HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (4491066)
Classification: LCC DE 94 . T 49 2022 (print) | LCC DE 94 (ebook) | DDC 909/.09822dc23/eng/20211202
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To the memory of J.N. Hillgarth (19292020)
On, si tu, fil, est amador de prudencia, ages saviea e sciencia, per la qual vules e sapies concordar prudencia e cautela, maestria, sens falsia e engan.
Therefore, son, if you are a lover of prudence, have wisdom and knowledge, through which you desire and know how to bring prudence and precaution, mastery, into concordance, without falseness and deceit.
RAMON LLULL, DOCTRINA PUERIL
CONTENTS
TEXTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This textbook and reader project took shape over a long eight years of collaboration and we, the authors, received indispensable feedback, suggestions, and help from so many people that we have undoubtedly lost track of all of them. Apologies to those who contributed but have been overlooked in this list. You know who you are, and we want you to know we are grateful.
Thanks are due to the Mediterranean Seminar, notably, codirector Sharon Kinoshita (University of California, Santa Cruz) and the many participants of the seminar workshops who read and provided feedback on drafts of the textbook and accompanying document reader. Thanks particularly to the University of Colorado Boulder, the Medieval Institute at Notre Dame, the University of Toronto, and the Marco Institute at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville for funding workshops at which we discussed and refined the manuscript.
Individuals who we would like to thank include (in alphabetical order): Hussein Abdulsater (University of Notre Dame), Fred Astren (San Francisco State), Mohammad Ballan (SUNY Stony Brook), David Bocquelet, Remie Constable (of fond memory, late of the University of Notre Dame), John Dagenais (University of California, Los Angeles), Abigail Firey (University of Kentucky), Oren Falk (Cornell University), Alexandra Garnhart Bushakra (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Claire Gilbert (Saint Louis University), William Granara (Harvard University), Dan Green (POM), Mayte Green-Mercado (Rutgers University), Daniel Gullo (Hill Museum and Manuscript Library), Harvey Hames (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), Demetrios Harper (Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary), Peregrine Horden (Oxford University), Spencer Hunt (University of Notre Dame), Sharon Kinoshita (University of California, Santa Cruz), Sergio La Porta (Fresno State), Danny Lasker (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), Mahan Mirza (University of Notre Dame), Lee Mordichai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Stephen Ogden (University of Notre Dame), Karen Pinto (Loyola University, Maryland), Amy Remensnyder (Brown University), Gabriel Reynolds (University of Notre Dame), Denis Robichaud (University of Notre Dame), Teo Ruiz (University of California, Los Angeles), Cana Short (University of Notre Dame), Bogdan Smarandache (University of Toronto), Stefan Statchev (Arizona State University), David Wacks (University of Oregon), Lydia Walker (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Kenneth Baxter Wolf (Pomona College), Fariba Zarinebaf (University of California, Riverside), Nina Zhiri (University of California, San Diego).