Acknowledgements

 Introduction
    1. Traveling the Cultural Frontier
    2. Comparison and Diffusion
    3. Culture Contact and the Polemic of Spanish Historiography
    4. A Question of Names

 Chapter 1 : At the Crossroads of Civilization
    1. The Arab Conquests: Opening or Closure?
    2. Diffusion, Transport, Movement
    3. The Collapse of the Visigothic State and the Islamic Conquest
    4. The Curve of Conversion
    5. The Arab State From Province to Caliphate
    6. The Christian North to A.D. 1000
    7. The Eleventh-Century Revival: Causes and Consequences

 Chapter 2 : Agriculture, Settlement, and the Moving Frontier
    1. Two Cultures; Two Ecologies
    2. Landscape Change and Environmental Perception
    3. The Frontier as Image and as a Creator of Landscape
    4. Dynamics of Settlement and Growth: al-Andalus
    5. Dynamics of Settlement and Growth: The Christian Kingdoms
    6. From Local to Transhumant Herding
    7. Forests and Timber

 Chapter 3 : Urbanization and Commerce
    1. Urban Structure, Urban Functions
    2. Growth and Morphology of Towns
    3. The Urban Market
    4. Patterns of Trade and Investment

 Chapter 4 : Social Structure
    1. Systems of Stratification
    2. Kinship
    3. The Lower Classes: Freedom and Dependence
    4. The Middle Classes: Two Failed Revolutions?
    5. The Nobility and Social Mobility

 Chapter 5 : Ethnic Relations
    1. Ethnic Cleavages and Cultural Boundaries
    2. "Protected" Religious Minorities
    3. Ethnic Competition in al-Andalus
    4. Assimilation of Neo-Muslims
    5. Ethnicity in Christian Spain

 Chapter 6 : Structure and Stability
    1. Stability and Continuity
    2. Structural Gains and Loses
    3. State Systems of the Eleventh Century
    4. Feudalism

 Chapter 7 : Technology
    1. Modalities of Innovation and Change
    2. Continuity and Change in Medieval Iberian Technology
    3. Shared Techniques
    4. Bilateral Diffusion
    5. Flow of Techniques from East to West

 Chapter 8 : Science
    1. Science and Cultural Values
    2. Diffusion and Synthesis
    3. The Social Bases of Transmission
    4. The Unity of Scientific Knowledge
    5. Patterns of Cultural Influence

 Chapter 9 : Cultural Process in Medieval Spain
    1. The Linguistic Model and Cultural Continuity
    2. Cultural Crystallization
    3. Modalities of Cultural Change
    4. Balance-Sheet of Cultural Exchange

 Bibliographic Essay

Figures
     Figure 1 : Conversion to Islam in al-Andalus
     Figure 2 : Typology of Christian and Muslim Enclaves in Medieval Spain
     Figure 3 : Components of an Animal-drawn Noria
     Figure 4 : Maslama and his School
     Figure 5 : The Andalusi Agronomical School
     Figure 6 : Ratio of Christian and Muslim Scientists
     Figure 7 : Comparative Conversion Curve

Tables:
     Table 1 : Edible Crops Introduced by the Arabs
     Table 2 : Andalusi Terms for Wheat
     Table 3 : Artisan Nisbas of Andalusi Sufis (Thirteenth Century)
     Table 4 : Indicators of Structural Gain or Loss in al-Andalus
     Table 5 : Medieval Castilian Chemical Technology
     Table 6 : Arabisms in Castilian Thought through the Thirteenth Century, by Category

 Map : Scholarly Interaction between al-Andalus and the Magrib, 12th-13th centuries, A.D.

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