Medievalists.net » Morocco http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Medieval Morocco comes to the Louvre http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/17/medieval-morocco-comes-louvre/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/17/medieval-morocco-comes-louvre/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:28:15 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53400 The Louvre opened its Medieval Morocco: An Empire from Africa to Spain exhibition today, which will feature over 300 artefacts covering the North African kingdom's history during the later Middle Ages.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/17/medieval-morocco-comes-louvre/feed/ 0 Ferdinand the Saint Prince of Portugal http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/13/ferdinand-the-saint-prince-of-portugal/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/13/ferdinand-the-saint-prince-of-portugal/#comments Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:50:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47548 Ferdinand was doomed to have a very sad story.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/13/ferdinand-the-saint-prince-of-portugal/feed/ 0 The European Reconquest of North Africa http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/14/the-european-reconquest-of-north-africa/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/14/the-european-reconquest-of-north-africa/#comments Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:17:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40448 The chief structural features of Africa Minor are simple. The territory consists of a long strip of land bounded on the north by the Mediterranean,on the south by the Sahara, on the east by the Gulf of Tripoli and the Libyan Desert, on the west by the Atlantic.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/14/the-european-reconquest-of-north-africa/feed/ 0 Archeological and Historical Approaches to Complex Societies: The Islamic States of Medieval Morocco http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/20/archeological-and-historical-approaches-to-complex-societies-the-islamic-states-of-medieval-morocco/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/20/archeological-and-historical-approaches-to-complex-societies-the-islamic-states-of-medieval-morocco/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:51:32 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40021 We postulate that during the Medieval period two widely different sociopolitical contexts existed, giving rise to diverse urban patterns. Most importantly, we argue that the second of these patterns represents a widespread situation that is inadequately treated in the literature.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/20/archeological-and-historical-approaches-to-complex-societies-the-islamic-states-of-medieval-morocco/feed/ 0 Jewish trading in Fes on the eve of the Almohad conquest http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/24/jewish-trading-in-fes-on-the-eve-of-the-almohad-conquest/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/24/jewish-trading-in-fes-on-the-eve-of-the-almohad-conquest/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:18:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33159 The status of Jewish communities under Almohad rule has been the subject of scholarly interest for different reasons notably in the framework of the disruption of convivencia in al-Andalus among the people of the three abrahamic faiths.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/24/jewish-trading-in-fes-on-the-eve-of-the-almohad-conquest/feed/ 0 Al-Idrisi and His World Map (1154) http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/14/al-idrisi-and-his-world-map-1154/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/14/al-idrisi-and-his-world-map-1154/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:55:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30142 Working for eighteen years under the patronage of the Norman King Roger II Guiscard of Sicily, who gathered scholars from many regions at his court in Palermo, the Moroccan geographer Al-Idrīsī in 1154 completed a description and an atlas of maps of the known world.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/14/al-idrisi-and-his-world-map-1154/feed/ 0 “Western Islamic Art” The Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/17/western-islamic-art-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/17/western-islamic-art-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:56:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=22860 “Western Islamic Art” Aanavi, Don The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 27, no. 3 (November, 1968) Abstract Islamic art springs from a vast geographic expanse from Spain to Indonesia and its history consists of a dynamic interchange of peoples and ideas. It is scomplex and as with the art of Europe or the Far East, […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/17/western-islamic-art-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art/feed/ 0 The Origins of Amazigh Women’s Power in North Africa: An Historical Overview http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/04/the-origins-of-amazigh-women%e2%80%99s-power-in-north-africa-an-historical-overview/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/04/the-origins-of-amazigh-women%e2%80%99s-power-in-north-africa-an-historical-overview/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:04:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=22420 The Origins of Amazigh Women’s Power in North Africa: An Historical Overview By Ulbani Aït Frawsen and L’Hocine Ukerdi Al-Raida, Vol.20 (2003) Introduction: The term “Amazigh” denotes the major linguistic minority of North Africa. However, “Berber” still remains the more widely used ethno-linguistic word for them. In antiquity, the Romans and Byzantines used this term […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/04/the-origins-of-amazigh-women%e2%80%99s-power-in-north-africa-an-historical-overview/feed/ 0 Warfare and Firearms in Fifteenth Century Morocco, 1400-1492 http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/30/warfare-and-firearms-in-fifteenth-century-morocco-1400-1492/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/30/warfare-and-firearms-in-fifteenth-century-morocco-1400-1492/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:44:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=14592 Warfare and Firearms in Fifteenth Century Morocco, 1400-1492 By Weston F. Cook Jr. War and Society, Vol.11 (1993) Introduction: Warfare in history is back in vogue again with special interest in the period 1350-1750. Much of this renewal arises from debate over the ‘Early Modern Military Revolution’ paradigm formulated by Geoffrey Parker and other self-described ‘New’ […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/30/warfare-and-firearms-in-fifteenth-century-morocco-1400-1492/feed/ 0 Hosting Dynasties and Faiths: Chronicling the Religious History Of a Medieval Moroccan Oasis City http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/29/hosting-dynasties-and-faiths-chronicling-the-religious-history-of-a-medieval-moroccan-oasis-city/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/29/hosting-dynasties-and-faiths-chronicling-the-religious-history-of-a-medieval-moroccan-oasis-city/#comments Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:09:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=11883 Hosting Dynasties and Faiths: Chronicling the Religious History Of a Medieval Moroccan Oasis City By Robert Caverly MA Thesis, Villanova University, 2008 Introduction: Writing a history of an ancient society is a process that calls on both the specificity of individuated events and the broad, sweeping currents of greater change. Similarly, a religious history is […]

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