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Article: Purity Lost: Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000-1400.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- December 22, 2008
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Purity Lost: Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000-1400, by Steven A. Epstein. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xiii, 250 pp. $55.00 US (cloth).
In his most recent work, Purity Lost, Stephen A. Epstein, a specialist in the economic and social history of Medieval Europe, takes up a more cultural project: he tries to bring to life various forms of cultural exchanges on the shores and islands of the eastern Mediterranean by using more literary prose instead of "dry" academic writing. The area he examines stretches from Italy and Tunis to the Black Sea and ...