After studying in Washington D.C., Königswinter, Cairo, Salamanca, Bonn, and Aleppo, Daniel G. König acquired his PhD at the University of Bonn in 2006 with a thesis on the Christianisation of Western Europe. From 2007 to 2011 he worked in Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages research at the German Historical Institute in Paris where he coordinated a research group on cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean. From 2011 to 2014 he worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Since 2014, he has held a start-up professorship for transcultural studies within the area 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context' at the University of Heidelberg.

König's work marks a major contribution to the historiography of Christian-Muslim contact in the Middle Ages and constitutes a valuable collection of research on the history of the Latin West according to non-Latin sources. ... König's magisterial study helps us to view the history of intercultural contact in its complexity rather than reduce it into factitious and self-aggrandizing generalizations.

• 1. Arabic-Islamic Records on Latin-Christian Europe: Introduction ; 2. An Evolving Information Landscape, 7th-15th centuries ; 3. Scholars At Work ; 4. Discovery of the Roman West ; 5. The Visigoths: History of a Conquered People ; 6. From the Franks to France ; 7. From the Patriarch of Rome to the Pope ; 8. The Expanding Latin-Christian Sphere ; 9. Arabic-Islamic Records on Latin-Christian Europe: A Re-evaluation ; Bibliography ; Index

After studying in Washington D.C., Königswinter, Cairo, Salamanca, Bonn, and Aleppo, Daniel G. König acquired his PhD at the University of Bonn in 2006 with a thesis on the Christianisation of Western Europe. From 2007 to 2011 he worked in Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages research at the German Historical Institute in Paris where he coordinated a research group on cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean. From 2011 to 2014 he worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Since 2014, he has held a start-up professorship for transcultural studies within the area 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context' at the University of Heidelberg.

König's work marks a major contribution to the historiography of Christian-Muslim contact in the Middle Ages and constitutes a valuable collection of research on the history of the Latin West according to non-Latin sources. ... König's magisterial study helps us to view the history of intercultural contact in its complexity rather than reduce it into factitious and self-aggrandizing generalizations.

• 1. Arabic-Islamic Records on Latin-Christian Europe: Introduction ; 2. An Evolving Information Landscape, 7th-15th centuries ; 3. Scholars At Work ; 4. Discovery of the Roman West ; 5. The Visigoths: History of a Conquered People ; 6. From the Franks to France ; 7. From the Patriarch of Rome to the Pope ; 8. The Expanding Latin-Christian Sphere ; 9. Arabic-Islamic Records on Latin-Christian Europe: A Re-evaluation ; Bibliography ; Index

After studying in Washington D.C., Königswinter, Cairo, Salamanca, Bonn, and Aleppo, Daniel G. König acquired his PhD at the University of Bonn in 2006 with a thesis on the Christianisation of Western Europe. From 2007 to 2011 he worked in Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages research at the German Historical Institute in Paris where he coordinated a research group on cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean. From 2011 to 2014 he worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Since 2014, he has held a start-up professorship for transcultural studies within the area 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context' at the University of Heidelberg.

König's work marks a major contribution to the historiography of Christian-Muslim contact in the Middle Ages and constitutes a valuable collection of research on the history of the Latin West according to non-Latin sources. ... König's magisterial study helps us to view the history of intercultural contact in its complexity rather than reduce it into factitious and self-aggrandizing generalizations.

• 1. Arabic-Islamic Records on Latin-Christian Europe: Introduction ; 2. An Evolving Information Landscape, 7th-15th centuries ; 3. Scholars At Work ; 4. Discovery of the Roman West ; 5. The Visigoths: History of a Conquered People ; 6. From the Franks to France ; 7. From the Patriarch of Rome to the Pope ; 8. The Expanding Latin-Christian Sphere ; 9. Arabic-Islamic Records on Latin-Christian Europe: A Re-evaluation ; Bibliography ; Index