Medievalists.net » Tunisia 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 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 The Fatimid and Kalbite Governors in Sicily : 909-1044 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/21/the-fatimid-and-kalbite-governors-in-sicily-909-1044/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/21/the-fatimid-and-kalbite-governors-in-sicily-909-1044/#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2012 21:06:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36613 This is the second part of my investigation on the Muslim governors (or rulers) in Sicily.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/21/the-fatimid-and-kalbite-governors-in-sicily-909-1044/feed/ 0 Conversion and St Louis’s Last Crusade http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/14/conversion-and-st-louis%e2%80%99s-last-crusade/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/14/conversion-and-st-louis%e2%80%99s-last-crusade/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:43:09 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=18394 Conversion and St Louis’s Last Crusade By Michael Lower Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 58, No. 2 (2007) Abstract: Arguments as to why St Louis diverted his 1270 crusade to Tunis from Jerusalem have been raging ever since the expedition returned to France. Although historians have recently agreed that the diversion was the decision of […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/14/conversion-and-st-louis%e2%80%99s-last-crusade/feed/ 0 Monogamy in Islam: The case of a Tunisian Marriage Contract http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/21/monogamy-in-islam-the-case-of-a-tunisian-marriage-contract/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/21/monogamy-in-islam-the-case-of-a-tunisian-marriage-contract/#comments Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:12:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=15737 Monogamy in Islam: The case of a Tunisian Marriage Contract By Dalenda Largueche Occasional Paper of the IAS School of Social Science (2010) Introduction: At the beginning of 1462, under the rule of the Emir hafside Abû ‘Amru ‘Uthmân (1435-1478), a judicial case involving a wife and her husband became so serious in the city of […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/21/monogamy-in-islam-the-case-of-a-tunisian-marriage-contract/feed/ 0 Bridging Europe and Africa: Norman Sicily’s Other Kingdom http://www.medievalists.net/2009/08/11/bridging-europe-and-africa-norman-sicilys-other-kingdom-2/ http://www.medievalists.net/2009/08/11/bridging-europe-and-africa-norman-sicilys-other-kingdom-2/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:10:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=4226 The Norman conquest of Sicily, completed by 1091, shifted the largest Mediterranean island away from the sphere of influence of the eastern Maghrib, integrating it into a new Latin Christian framework.

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