Mark T. Abate is Professor of History at Westfield State University in Massachusetts, USA. His research focuses on thirteenth-century intellectual history, particularly the work of Roger Bacon. He is currently working on a critical edition of the Epistola de secretis operibus artis et naturae et de nullitate magiae, attributed to Roger Bacon.

With a foreword by Brian A. Catlos

Presents essays from leading scholars of medieval Spanish and Mediterranean history

Brings together innovative research on the history of science, cross-cultural interactions between Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and irrigation

Appeals to scholars of Jewish-Christian-Islamic relations, medieval Spain, the medieval Mediterranean, and the history of science

1. Introduction: Ever Since Castro: Thomas F. Glick, Medieval Spain, and Convivencia.- I. Irrigation.- 2. Water Management and Irrigation in Medieval Mediterranean Societies: An Overview.- 3. Irrigation and Political Power in the Medieval Kingdom of Valencia.- II. Contacts.- 4. Notes on the Methodology of Studying the History of the Dhimmis.- 5. Convivencia as Persecution in Ninth-Century Córdoba.- 6. Ramon de Penyafort's Responses to questions concerning relations between Christians and Saracens: Critical Edition and Translation.- 7. Al-T¿bis¿ and His Descendants: The Failed Integration of a Military Andalusi Family into the Christian Society of the Kingdom of Valencia (1238-1283).- 8. The Mustassaf of Castelló de la Plana.- III. Perceptions.- 9. The Battle of Zallaqa between Mythos to Logos.- 10. Narratives of Muslim Violence in Christian Courts in the Late Medieval Kingdom of Valencia.- 11. Were Women Part of Convivencia?.- 12. Spain, Islam, and Thirteenth-Century Dominican Memory.- 13. "Although he Sinned": Spanish Conversos between Law, Theology, and Jewish Popular Perception.- IV. Science.- 14. The Astronomical Background of Abraham bar Hiyya's Astrological History.- 15. A Muslim's Book and Its Christian and Jewish Readers: The Way al-Farabi's Enumeration of the Sciences Came to Influence Western European Scholars.- 16. Reading Averroes.- V. Epilogue.- 17. Boston through Arab Eyes: A Brief Memoir of Studying under Ustaaz Thomas F. Glick.