Sarah Davis-Secord
Biographic Data
| ID | 709259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Davis-Secord |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis-Secord |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS-SECORD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1881-0063 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily: Maritime Violence, Cultural Exchange, and Imagination in the Mediterranean, 800–1700, edited by Emily Sohmer Tai and Kathryn L. Reyerson
Scandal, or Historical Dead Ends
Conversing with the enemy: Miraculous encounters between Christians and Muslims in the Italo‐Greek saints' Lives
The Italo‐Greek saints’ Lives from early medieval southern Italy have been viewed as evidence for violent opposition between Christians and Muslims in the area. I argue instead that these texts demonstrate ambivalence toward the Muslim presence: while painting Muslims as frightening and violent outsiders, they also depict them as capable of engaging in extended and mutually beneficial conversations with Christians. Analysis of selected such episo…
Writing the Twilight: The Arabic Poetics of Ageing in Medieval Sicily and al-Andalus
A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy (1350–1600)
Globalizing the Medieval: A Methodology
The "global Middle Ages" is a provocative concept, evoking strong responses both for and against its utility and applicability.This is in part because it appears to make a certain set of claims: ones that either look too grand to fit the evidence, or, alternatively, ones that seem to so significantly reproduce what historians have long argued about trans-regional connections that the term becomes mere window dressing.But what if we approached the…
Insular Imaginaries: A Response
The Normans in the Mediterranean
Interfaith Relationships and Perceptions of the Other in the Medieval Mediterranean: Essays in Memory of Olivia Remie Constable
In Battle and in Bed: Wanton Women and Women Warriors in Muslim and Christian Crusade Narratives
This article analyses the parallel representations of enemy warrior women as sexually profligate and inappropriately martial in selected Latin and Arabic texts from the period of the first three crusades (late eleventh to late twelfth centuries). Cross‐cultural comparison of depictions of fighting women demonstrates that both cultures portrayed the other side as dominated, and thus undermined, by women who were unnaturally assertive in both sexua…
Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
Sicily is a lush and culturally rich island at the center of the Mediterranean Sea. Throughout its history, the island has been conquered and colonized by successive waves of peoples from across the Mediterranean region. In the early and central Middle Ages, the island was ruled and occupied in turn by Greek Christians, Muslims, and Latin Christians. This book investigates Sicily's place within the religious, diplomatic, military, commercial, and…
Arabic-Islamic views of the Latin West: Tracing the emergence of medieval Europe, by Daniel G. König
While studies of medieval western perceptions of Islam abound, no one has attempted to provide a complete systematic analysis of medieval Arabic-Islamic knowledge about western Christendom – at lea
Medieval Sicily and Southern Italy in Recent Historiographical Perspective
Sicily and southern Italy during the Middle Ages have been a neglected area of study for many years, primarily due to the general belief that the area fell into decline after the ‘fall’ of Rome. Recently, however, there has been growing interest in the Muslims of medieval Sicily and Italy, as well as the Jewish and Greek populations that lived under Latin Christian rule for many centuries. There has also been a rise in scholarship on the medieval…
Muslims in Norman Sicily: The Evidence of Imām al-Māzarī's Fatwās
Muslims in Norman Sicily: The Evidence of Imām al-Māzarī's Fatwās
Medieval Sicily and Southern Italy in Recent Historiographical Perspective
Sicily and southern Italy during the Middle Ages have been a neglected area of study for many years, primarily due to the general belief that the area fell into decline after the ‘fall’ of Rome. Recently, however, there has been growing interest in the Muslims of medieval Sicily and Italy, as well as the Jewish and Greek populations that lived under Latin Christian rule for many centuries. There has also been a rise in scholarship on the medieval…
Muslims in Norman Sicily: The Evidence of Imām al-Māzarī's Fatwās
Medieval Sicily and Southern Italy in Recent Historiographical Perspective
Sicily and southern Italy during the Middle Ages have been a neglected area of study for many years, primarily due to the general belief that the area fell into decline after the ‘fall’ of Rome. Recently, however, there has been growing interest in the Muslims of medieval Sicily and Italy, as well as the Jewish and Greek populations that lived under Latin Christian rule for many centuries. There has also been a rise in scholarship on the medieval…
Arabic-Islamic views of the Latin West: Tracing the emergence of medieval Europe, by Daniel G. König
While studies of medieval western perceptions of Islam abound, no one has attempted to provide a complete systematic analysis of medieval Arabic-Islamic knowledge about western Christendom – at lea
Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
Sicily is a lush and culturally rich island at the center of the Mediterranean Sea. Throughout its history, the island has been conquered and colonized by successive waves of peoples from across the Mediterranean region. In the early and central Middle Ages, the island was ruled and occupied in turn by Greek Christians, Muslims, and Latin Christians. This book investigates Sicily's place within the religious, diplomatic, military, commercial, and…
Interfaith Relationships and Perceptions of the Other in the Medieval Mediterranean: Essays in Memory of Olivia Remie Constable
In Battle and in Bed: Wanton Women and Women Warriors in Muslim and Christian Crusade Narratives
This article analyses the parallel representations of enemy warrior women as sexually profligate and inappropriately martial in selected Latin and Arabic texts from the period of the first three crusades (late eleventh to late twelfth centuries). Cross‐cultural comparison of depictions of fighting women demonstrates that both cultures portrayed the other side as dominated, and thus undermined, by women who were unnaturally assertive in both sexua…
Globalizing the Medieval: A Methodology
The "global Middle Ages" is a provocative concept, evoking strong responses both for and against its utility and applicability.This is in part because it appears to make a certain set of claims: ones that either look too grand to fit the evidence, or, alternatively, ones that seem to so significantly reproduce what historians have long argued about trans-regional connections that the term becomes mere window dressing.But what if we approached the…
Insular Imaginaries: A Response
The Normans in the Mediterranean
Conversing with the enemy: Miraculous encounters between Christians and Muslims in the Italo‐Greek saints' Lives
The Italo‐Greek saints’ Lives from early medieval southern Italy have been viewed as evidence for violent opposition between Christians and Muslims in the area. I argue instead that these texts demonstrate ambivalence toward the Muslim presence: while painting Muslims as frightening and violent outsiders, they also depict them as capable of engaging in extended and mutually beneficial conversations with Christians. Analysis of selected such episo…
Writing the Twilight: The Arabic Poetics of Ageing in Medieval Sicily and al-Andalus
A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy (1350–1600)
Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily: Maritime Violence, Cultural Exchange, and Imagination in the Mediterranean, 800–1700, edited by Emily Sohmer Tai and Kathryn L. Reyerson
Scandal, or Historical Dead Ends
History (9 works) · Medieval History and Crusades (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · History (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (5 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (4 works) · Mediterranean climate (4 works) · Classics (3 works)