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Cover illustration: Tabula Rogeriana, Latin version of the Arab world map created by al-Idrīsī on Sicily in ca. 1154 A.D. (source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TabulaRogeriana.jpg; public domain)
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Names: Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes, editor. | Reinfandt, Lucian, editor. | Stouraitis, Yannis, editor. Title: Migration histories of the medieval Afroeurasian transition zone : aspects of mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300-1500 C.E. / edited by Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Lucian Reinfandt, Yannis Stouraitis.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020. | Series: Studies in global migration history ; volume 13 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “The transition zone between Africa, Asia and Europe was the most important intersection of human mobility in the medieval period. The present volume for the first time systematically covers migration histories of the regions between the Mediterranean and Central Asia and between Eastern Europe and the Indian Ocean in the centuries from Late Antiquity up to the early modern era. Within this framework, specialists from Byzantine, Islamic, Medieval and African history provide detailed analyses of specific regions and groups of migrants, both elites and non-elites as well as voluntary and involuntary. Thereby, also current debates of migration studies are enriched with a new dimension of deep historical time. Contributors are: Alexander Beihammer, Lutz Berger, Florin Curta, Charalampos Gasparis, George Hatke, Dirk Hoerder, Johannes Koder, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Lucian Reinfandt, Youval Rotman, Yannis Stouraitis, Panayiotis Theodoropoulos, and Myriam Wissa”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019059351 (print) | LCCN 2019059352 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004382497 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004425613 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Human beings--Migrations--History--to 1500. | Africans--Migrations-- History--to 1500. | Europeans--Migrations--History--to 1500. | Asians--Migrations--History--to 1500. Classification: LCC GN370 .M534 2020 (print) | LCC GN370 (ebook) | DDC 304.809--dc23
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