“The Daughter of al-Andalus”: Interrelations between Norman Sicily and the Muslim West

Kapitaikin, Lev

doi:10.1080/09503110.2013.767019

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“…Between the ninth and the eleventh century CE, Sicily was under Muslim political and military control, and had strong connections with all the other parts of the Islamic world (Kapitaikin, 2013). The new settlers brought into the island their native agroecological knowledge on plants and ecosystems (Bresc, 1972; Ruggles, 2008), which continued even when the Islamic rule ended with the Norman invasions in the last part of the eleventh century (Bresc, 1972).…”

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“…Moreover, they constantly refer to previous agricultural authors as, for instance, Pliny the Elder who, in his Natural History (Pliny the Elder, 17.30.127–129), mentions the Punic writer Mago, whose works are unfortunately lost. Here lies the great value of such sources: apart from providing ecological information per se, they are expression of an ongoing process of cultural accumulation, integration and transmission, which is a recurrent aspect found in later sources along history.Between the ninth and the eleventh century CE, Sicily was under Muslim political and military control, and had strong connections with all the other parts of the Islamic world (Kapitaikin, 2013). The new settlers brought into the island their native agroecological knowledge on plants and ecosystems (Bresc, 1972; Ruggles, 2008), which continued even when the Islamic rule ended with the Norman invasions in the last part of the eleventh century (Bresc, 1972).…”

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The Entangled Phenology of the Olive Tree: A Compiled Ecological Calendar ofOlea EuropaeaL. Over the Last Three Millennia With Sicily as a Case Study

Ferrara

Ingemark

2023

GeoHealth

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Phenology is the study of the timing of recurring biological events (Lieth, 1974). By looking at seasonal life cycles in plants and animals (Bastian & Bayliss Hawitt, 2022), phenology studies the complex temporal interactions of living beings with each other, and with the temporalities of other surrounding environmental elements (such as, for instance, temperature, light, etc.). Phenology tries to understand how the many and different forms of ecological timing of an organism or populations interact and intersect with the timing of particular components of their environment (Forrest & Miller-Rushing, 2010), making shared life in an ecosystem possible. Phenology spans over a range of analytical approaches at different spatial scales, from macro level (landscape) to meso (ecological communities) and individual level (stands), including statistical methods, interpretation of long-term phenological data, modeling and physiological analysis, with many different forms of data collection (e.g., using remote sensing with satellites and/or phenocams, analysis of time-series photos). An important focus in phenological studies is recording dates of typical conventional phenophases, such as flowering or bud burst in plants, conducted via long-term observations (Bastian & Bayliss Hawitt, 2022).Humans, to plan what to do next, have always used phenological indicators. Phenological times of plant and animals are connected with the local environmental context, and key timings of human activities, such as the best time for harvest, planting, or pruning for instance are always decided taking into consideration such aspects

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The Entangled Phenology of the Olive Tree: A Compiled Ecological Calendar ofOlea EuropaeaL. Over the Last Three Millennia With Sicily as a Case Study

Ferrara

Ingemark

2023

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“…Frakes (2011xiii) has noted that these regions (and central Europe, already explored) were sites of 'Bhabha-esque... creative interstices', that is, places where the distinctions between Christian rulers and non-Christian subjects were regularly blurred, accidentally or deliberately, by everyday cultural interactions. In multi-cultural communities such as medieval Sicily, the iconographic depiction of ostensibly Christian courtly culture, on the ceiling of the Norman Palace Chapel in Palermo, includes a dancing girl clad in a full-body costume that emphasises her curves and speaks to Islamic tropes of a paradise filled with houris just like her (Grube and Johns 2005;Kapitaikin 2013), and the Muslim writer Ibn Jubayr speaks of the women of Palermo going about their lives with veiled faces (cited in White 2005: 84). The dynamics of interpenetration in Iberia changed over time, for the conquering elite in early medieval Spain was Muslim, not Christian.…”

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Skinner¹

2019

A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Middle Ages

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Medieval sexuality has been the focus of substantial recent commentary from a number of perspectives. Ruth Mazo Karras (2005: 5) usefully defines sexuality as "[the] whole realm of human erotic experience-the meanings that people place on sex acts, not the acts themselves-not the history of sex." These meanings have been explored by medievalists from different directions (Bullough and Brundage 1996; Harper and Proctor 2008; Evans 2011). In older scholarship, the range and repetition of ecclesiastical regulation, commentaries and penitentials dealing with sexual behavior attracted the attention of James Brundage (1985, 1987). These are revealing of changing ideas not only of what constituted a valid marriage, but also of changing attitudes to the sexuality of priests, for whom chastity was increasingly emphasized (and required) from the eleventh century onwards. Brundage also briefly explored the regulation of sexual activity on the First Crusade, to which we shall return. The possibilities of [mainly male] same-sex relationships in the medieval past were the focus of early work by Michael Goodich (1979) and John Boswell (1980, 1994), and then of their critics, who highlighted the relative absence of women in the formulations set up (Murray 1996; Sautman and Sheingorn 2001; Lochrie 2005). Feminist interventions highlighted women's relationships, but the limitations of the gender binary also led to further reflections on male-male relationships and the transgender possibilities open to medieval people (Herdt 1996; Puff 2013). Medievalists have drawn heavily onand critiquedMichel Foucault's (1990) formulation of individual and collective sexual history evolving from a sexual act to a sexual identity (a

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Siculo-Arabic, Andalusi and Fatimid Ivory Works: Iconographic Transfers and Visual Propaganda

Santa-Cruz

2020

Artistic and Cultural Dialogues in the Late Medieval Mediterranean

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“The Daughter of al-Andalus”: Interrelations between Norman Sicily and the Muslim West

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The Entangled Phenology of the Olive Tree: A Compiled Ecological Calendar ofOlea EuropaeaL. Over the Last Three Millennia With Sicily as a Case Study

The Entangled Phenology of the Olive Tree: A Compiled Ecological Calendar ofOlea EuropaeaL. Over the Last Three Millennia With Sicily as a Case Study

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Siculo-Arabic, Andalusi and Fatimid Ivory Works: Iconographic Transfers and Visual Propaganda

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