Cover illustration: Abbasid Caliph al-Mamun sends an envoy to Byzantine Emperor Theophilos, Skyllitzes Matritensis, Unknown, 13th-century author, detail. With kind permission of the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
Image editing: Centre for Art Historical Documentation (CKD), Radboud University Nijmegen.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Slootjes, Daniëlle, editor. | Verhoeven, Mariëtte, editor.
Title: Byzantium in dialogue with the Mediterranean : history and heritage / edited by Daniëlle Slootjes, Mariëtte Verhoeven.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] | Series: The medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500, issn 0928-5520; volume 116 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2018061267 (print) | lccn 2019001368 (ebook) | isbn9789004393585 (ebook) | isbn 9789004392595 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: lcsh: Byzantine Empire--Relations--Europe, Western. | Europe, Western--Relations--Byzantine Empire. | Byzantine Empire--History--1081-1453. | Mediterranean Region--History--476-1517.
Classification: lcc df547.e85 (ebook) | lcc df547.e85 b98 2019 (print) | ddc 303.48/2495018220902--dc23
lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018061267
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