The Habsburg Mediterranean 1500–1800

Abstract

in a second edition or paperback of this title. Despite these minor quibbles, The Wolf King is an original piece of scholarship that is thoroughly researched and beautifully written. It will be useful for historians and art historians, medievalists, and Islamicists alike, seeking to think critically about the articulation of kingship in the Islamic world, the historiographical legacies of alAndalus, and the manner in which borderland dynamics and political legitimation were deeply intertwined in medieval Iberia. The Wolf King is an important work of interdisciplinary and comparative history that employs an array of textual, visual, and material evidence to reincorporate al-Andalus into the broader world of the medieval Mediterranean. There are very few studies that are capable of weaving together various threads and histories into such a rich tapestry with such erudition.