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Transmediterranean History
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The journal provides access to commented excerpts of primary sources in their original language and in translation that cover transmediterranean themes in the period 600-1650.
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AotW: Juan Rothenhäusler, 1258–1283: al-Qazwīnī Reports from Iraq on Schleswig or Haithabu, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Map of the inhabited world, from al-Qazwīnī’s cosmography ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt [Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing], Ms. probably from western India, 16th cent., today U.S. National Library of Medicine. MS P 1, fol. 71b-72a
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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AotW: Daniel G. König, 1250: Jean de Joinville Listens to the Story of a Renegade in Egypt, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Conquest of Damietta, 1249: Jean de Joinville entering the town before Louis IX, miniature from a fourteenth-century manuscript of his 'Histoire de Saint Louis', today Paris, BNF, Français 5716.
November 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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AotW: Niklas Hann von Weyhern, 1245: Matthaeus Parisiensis on the Defense of Frederick II at the Council of Lyon, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Pejorative depiction of Frederick II as seventh and largest head of the dragon of the Apocalypse, next to Herod, Nero and Saladin. The dragon's tail encircles Franciscan monks. Giovanni Villani, Chronica, 14th century, today Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Codex Vat. Lat. 3822, fol. 5r
October 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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AotW: Luke Yarbrough, 1014–1043: Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr on Christian Love for ʿAlī, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Investiture of ʿAlī at the Ghadir Khumm, 16 March 632, in: Kitāb al-āthār al-bāqiya ʿan al-qurūn al-khāliya, copy by Ibn al-Kutubī, Ilkhanid Iraq/Iran, 1307–1308, today Edinburgh, University Library, MS Arab 161, fol. 162r.
October 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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AotW: Sebastiano Arona, 971: The 'Decretum Venetorum de abrogando Saracenorum commercie' Prohibits Venetians from Trading with Muslims, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Coronation of John Tzimiskes (969), from: John Skylitzes, Synopsis of Histories, Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, Vitr. 26-2, fol. 159r (12th century; the famous 'Madrid Skylitzes‘)
October 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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AotW: Daniel G. König, 903–906: The Raffelstetten Customs Regulation and the Export of Slavic Slaves to the Islamic Sphere, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Iron restraints 11th/12th cent., Neu Nieköhr, Zdenek Vana, przedmowa Jerzy Gąssowski - Świat dawnych Słowian, 1985, Artia, PA Interpress
October 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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AotW: Eric Böhme, 1244: King James I of Aragón Reports on the Capitulation of Xàtiva, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Xàtiva drawn by Anton van den Wijngaerde in 1563, today Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. Min 41, fol. 70r
September 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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AotW: Bogdan C. Smarandache, 1293: An Aragonese–Mamlūk Agreement from al-Qalqašandī’s Ṣubḥ al-aʿšā, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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James II of Aragon (r. 1291–1327), Usatici et Constitutiones Cataloniae, Paris, BNF, Latin 4670 A (c. 1315–1325)
September 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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AotW: Eric Böhme, 1174: A Letter of Condolence from Saladin to Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Saladin "rex Aegypti" styled as a knight, 15th century manuscript
September 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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AotW: Eva Salmonat, 1095–1104: King Coloman of Hungary’s Legislation against Islam, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Coloman’s Coronation in 1095, as imagined in the fourteenth-century Hungarian Chronicon Pictum, fol. 101 (today National Széchényi Library, Budapest).
September 8, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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AotW: Mohamed Qassiti, 1010‒1028: First Reference to an Astrolabe in Lorraine by Radulf of Liège, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Planispheric astrolabe, North Africa, 9th cent., today part of the Khalili Collections
August 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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AotW: Daniel G. König, 942–956: Ibn Ḥayyān on Hungarian Raids and the Battle of Lechfeld, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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The Battle of Lechfeld in the Sächsische Weltchronik, c. 1270, Gotha, Forschungs- und Landesbibliothek, Ms. Memb. I 90, fol. 87v.
August 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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AotW: Dominic Scheim, 1597: Bernardo de Brito Writes Down the Legend of the Abducted Moor Fatima, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Oil painting of Frei Bernardo de Brito, c. 1600–1650, today Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Colecção de Pintura, URL: https://purl.pt/22984.
August 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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AotW: Dominic Scheim, 1498: The Roteiro on the Confrontation of Vasco da Gama with Muslim Merchants in Calicut, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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First page of the "Roteiro da Viagem de Vasco da Gama à Índia," Casa do Infante, Porto.
July 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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AotW: Daniel G. König, 1412: al-Qalqašandī Historicises the Crusades, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Copy of al-Qalqashandī’s Ṣubḥ al-aʿshā, AH 1193, private library, Southern Lebanon
July 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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AotW: James Wilson, 1116–1126: Ibn al-ʿAdīm on Christian–Muslim Crop Sharing (munāṣafa) Treaties, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Front page of a Ms of Ibn al-ʿAdīm’s Zubdat al-ḥalab min taʾrīḫ Ḥalab, with a note by Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838), Paris, BNF 1666
July 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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AotW: Daniel G. König, 906: Bertha of Tuscany’s Correspondence with al-Muktafī bi-llāh in the Version of Ibn al-Zubayr, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Gold dinar of al-Muktafi, Baghdad, 292 AH / 904–905 CE
July 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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AotW: Lukas Müller, 629–641: The So-called Chronicle of Fredegar Explains the Intrusion of the "Saracens" into the Eastern Roman Empire, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Pen drawing from the earliest manuscript of the Chronicle of Fredegar, probably depicting Eusebius and Jerome, 715 AD, BNF Ms Latin 10910, fol. 23v
June 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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AotW: Alejandro Peláez Martín, 1489: The Mamlūk Sultan of Egypt Threatens the Catholic Monarchs, in: Transmediterranean History 5.2 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, anonymous painting of the 15th century
June 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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AotW: 1254: Treaty between the Mamlūk Sultan al-Malik al-Muʿizz and the Venetians, in: Transmediterranean History 5.2 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Palazzo Ducale, Venice
June 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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AotW: 1143–1147: Otto of Freising Identifies Baghdad and Cairo with Old and New Babylon, in: Transmediterranean History 5.2 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Otto of Freising, stained glass window in the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz, Austria (13th century)
June 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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AotW: Hossameldin Ali, Before 1044: ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Ṣiqillī on the Purchase of Christian and Muslim Females in Sicily, in: Transmediterranean History 5.2 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Modern edition of ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Ṣiqillī, Tahḏīb al-ṭālib wa-fāʾidat al-rāġib.
June 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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AotW: Victoria Hayn / Eric Böhme, 982: Thietmar of Merseburg on the Battle at Capo Colonna, in: Transmediterranean History 5.2 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Otto II, Trier, after 983, today Chantilly, Musée Condé, Ms. 14 bis
May 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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AotW: Alejandro Peláez Martín, 962: Al-Maqqarī on the Oath of Allegiance Given by the Rulers of León to al-Ḥakam II al-Mustanṣir, in: Transmediterranean History 5.2 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Salón Rico, Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ near Cordoba. The construction of the palace complex was completed under al-Ḥakam II.
May 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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AotW: Alejandro Peláez Martín, 1412: al-Qalqašandī Describes the Iberian Christian Realms of his Time, in: Transmediterranean History 6.1 (2024), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Copy of al-Qalqashandī’s Ṣubḥ al-aʿshā, AH 1193, private library, Southern Lebanon
May 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM