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 Sea of Faith - Stephen O'Shea
Newest Review: ... vary from Syria to France, Turkey to Spain and the actors include Arabs, Turks and Greeks, Franks and Mongols, Italians and ... more  ... Jews. Such intertwining of the battle tales and the pictures of convivencia helps to evoke a clear picture of the complex relations between the two cultures, without the need to produce a comprehensive account which would be unbearable for anybody who is not professionally interested.
Nevertheless, the amount of historical data, from names and dynasties to dates of events and background cultural info that is packed into The Sea of Faith is very high. Especially for the earlier period, commonly referred to as the Da...more |
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Sea of Faith - Stephen O'Shea: Mare Nostrum (893 words)
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"Sea of Faith" presents the common history of Islam and Christianity focusing on the Mediterranean, and the period roughly equivalent to what is referred to as the Middle Ages, from the foundation of Islam in the 7th century to the siege of Malta in 1565. O'Shea introduces his subject with two striking architectural palimpsests: Cordoba's Mezquita, built as a mosque, to incorporate a fully-fledged and currently active Christian church and Istanbul's Ayasofya, built as a greatest temple of Christendom to become a Mosque and now a secularised museum. They exemplify and illustrate the complex history of encounters between Christianity and ... Read the complete review
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