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Notes on.

Introduction

 * p. xi-xiii - Traveling the Cultural frontier: history vs. myth. medievalism until mid 1970.Two cultures, forming of new cultural and social patterns.
 * p. xiii-xv - Comparison and Diffusion:comparative approach, geographic unity, contact of culture, diffusion, impact of Islamic upon Christian culture. Difference in socio-economics (urban-artisanal vs. static agrarian), importance of structures.
 * p. xv-xx - The New Historiography:Revised ed since 1979. New data in regional history, archeological discoveries, Spanish feudalism (old "small free proprietors"=Claudio Sanchez Albornoz, new Barbero and Vigil). Theory of classical American cultural anthropology (A. L. Kroeber), structurationist (Anthony Giddens)
 * p. xx-xxii - A Question of Names:Spain=geography, Christian kingdoms, al-Andalus (lands of the vandals), Islamic Spain (ethnically misleading). Sefarad.

Chapter 1: At the Crossroads of Civilization
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 * p. 3-5 - The Arab Conquests: Opening or Closure:Henri Pirenne.