TEOFILO F. RUIZ, PhD is Distinguished Professor of History and of Spanish and Portuguese Literature, at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. A scholar of the social and popular culture of late medieval and early modern Spain, Dr. Ruiz received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in 2008, and was selected the Faculty Research lecturer for 2011-12. He received a National Humanities Medal in 2011 for his "inspired teaching and writing," a doctor honoris causa from the Universidad de Cantabria, Spain in 2017.

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• Series Editor’s Preface ixAcknowledgments xiii1 The Western Mediterranean: Sites of Encounter and Cultural Production 1Part I Geography, History, and Cultural Contexts 172 The Imperatives of Geography and Climate: Sea and Land in the Western Mediterranean 193 History in the Mediterranean: From Unity to Fragmentation, circa 450 CE until the Early Modern World 474 History in the Mediterranean: The Making of the Modern World 755 Religions of the Western Mediterranean: Unity and Fragmentation in the Religious History of the Sea 1056 Religions of the Western Mediterranean: Conversos and Renegades 1257 Language, Culture, and Community in the Western Mediterranean 145Part II Mediterranean Encounters 1698 Encounters I: Traveling in the Western Mediterranean 1719 Encounters II: The Mediterranean as a Site of Conflict, Movement, and Encounter 19710 Between Two Worlds: Iberia, Sicily, Tunis, Algiers, and Marseille 22711 On the Waters of the Western Mediterranean: Islands and Towns 26512 Epilogue: The Western Mediterranean and the World 297Bibliography 323Index 335

TEOFILO F. RUIZ, PhD is Distinguished Professor of History and of Spanish and Portuguese Literature, at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. A scholar of the social and popular culture of late medieval and early modern Spain, Dr. Ruiz received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in 2008, and was selected the Faculty Research lecturer for 2011-12. He received a National Humanities Medal in 2011 for his "inspired teaching and writing," a doctor honoris causa from the Universidad de Cantabria, Spain in 2017.

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• Series Editor’s Preface ixAcknowledgments xiii1 The Western Mediterranean: Sites of Encounter and Cultural Production 1Part I Geography, History, and Cultural Contexts 172 The Imperatives of Geography and Climate: Sea and Land in the Western Mediterranean 193 History in the Mediterranean: From Unity to Fragmentation, circa 450 CE until the Early Modern World 474 History in the Mediterranean: The Making of the Modern World 755 Religions of the Western Mediterranean: Unity and Fragmentation in the Religious History of the Sea 1056 Religions of the Western Mediterranean: Conversos and Renegades 1257 Language, Culture, and Community in the Western Mediterranean 145Part II Mediterranean Encounters 1698 Encounters I: Traveling in the Western Mediterranean 1719 Encounters II: The Mediterranean as a Site of Conflict, Movement, and Encounter 19710 Between Two Worlds: Iberia, Sicily, Tunis, Algiers, and Marseille 22711 On the Waters of the Western Mediterranean: Islands and Towns 26512 Epilogue: The Western Mediterranean and the World 297Bibliography 323Index 335

TEOFILO F. RUIZ, PhD is Distinguished Professor of History and of Spanish and Portuguese Literature, at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. A scholar of the social and popular culture of late medieval and early modern Spain, Dr. Ruiz received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in 2008, and was selected the Faculty Research lecturer for 2011-12. He received a National Humanities Medal in 2011 for his "inspired teaching and writing," a doctor honoris causa from the Universidad de Cantabria, Spain in 2017.

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• Series Editor’s Preface ixAcknowledgments xiii1 The Western Mediterranean: Sites of Encounter and Cultural Production 1Part I Geography, History, and Cultural Contexts 172 The Imperatives of Geography and Climate: Sea and Land in the Western Mediterranean 193 History in the Mediterranean: From Unity to Fragmentation, circa 450 CE until the Early Modern World 474 History in the Mediterranean: The Making of the Modern World 755 Religions of the Western Mediterranean: Unity and Fragmentation in the Religious History of the Sea 1056 Religions of the Western Mediterranean: Conversos and Renegades 1257 Language, Culture, and Community in the Western Mediterranean 145Part II Mediterranean Encounters 1698 Encounters I: Traveling in the Western Mediterranean 1719 Encounters II: The Mediterranean as a Site of Conflict, Movement, and Encounter 19710 Between Two Worlds: Iberia, Sicily, Tunis, Algiers, and Marseille 22711 On the Waters of the Western Mediterranean: Islands and Towns 26512 Epilogue: The Western Mediterranean and the World 297Bibliography 323Index 335