Bees in the Medieval Maghreb: Wax, Honey and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Western Mediterranean
Believed to originate in Paradise and set apart in their chastity, bees were potent religious symbols in medieval Christianity and Islam. This article explores how these beliefs drove an extensive trade in wax and honey, and examines the role of Jews, conversos, Christians, and Muslims in this trade...
| Published in: | Medieval encounters |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Medieval encounters
Year: 2021, Volume: 27, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 434-455 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Maghreb
/ Mediterranean (West)
/ Middle Ages
/ Honey
/ Waxes
/ Commerce
/ Jews
/ Muslim
/ Christian
/ Cultural relations
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| RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa ZA Social sciences ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
beekeeping
B Jewish-Christian-Muslim trade B medieval Maghreb B Bees B wax |
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| Summary: | Believed to originate in Paradise and set apart in their chastity, bees were potent religious symbols in medieval Christianity and Islam. This article explores how these beliefs drove an extensive trade in wax and honey, and examines the role of Jews, conversos, Christians, and Muslims in this trade. Further, it considers the environmental context and the extent to which religious prohibitions against trade between Christians and Muslims may have provided economic opportunities for Jewish merchants, while examining the economic and cultural relationships between members of the three Abrahamic religions. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0674 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Medieval encounters
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700674-12340115 |