The emperor and the elephant: Christians and Muslims in the age of Charlemagne
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| adam_text | CONTENTS Illustrations ■ xi Acknowledgements • xiii Abbreviations ■ XV CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 Introduction i Diplomacy 17 Political Context 18 Sources 23 Perception and Practice in Carolingian Diplomacy with the Islamic World 31 Problems ofPerspective 31 Considering the Other 33 Christ and Belial 41 Envoys 49 Travel 58 Reception 70 Gifts 83 Eating the Fish 85 Carolingian Diplomacy with the Abbasid Caliphate 87 Existential Questions 91 Motivations 96 The Alliance System 97 Patriarchs and Politics 106 Prestige Diplomacy 114 [vii]
[viii] CONTENTS First Contact: Pippin III and al-Mansur (767-768) 120 Charlemagne and Härün al-Rashid 124 The Elephant in the Room CHAPTER 4 The End of Carolingian Diplomacy with the Abbasid Caliphs (831) 144 Carolingian-Umayyad Diplomacy, Part 1: 751-820 147 The Frontier 151 The Beginning of Carolingian Relations with the Umayyads, 751-793 156 Sulaymän, Charlemagne, and the Roncesvalles Campaign, 777-781 159 An Unusual Proposition 170 My Girona, 781-793 172 751-793 Conclusion 175 The Franks on the Offensive, 796-812 CHAPTER 5 139 176 Useless Peace, 810-820 186 Conclusion 199 Carolingian-Umayyad Diplomacy, Part 2: 820-864 201 Disaster on the Frontier, 820-830 203 Leaders and Tribunes 209 Lights in the Sky 217 Charles the Bald and Umayyad Spain, 840-864 230 The Son of Evil, 847-851 234 Rebels and Vikings, 863-864 238 The Third King of Spain 243 The Martyrs of Cordoba 247 The End ofCarolingian-Umayyad Diplomacy 255
CONTENTS CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION [ix] The Central Mediterranean: The Limits of Carolingian Diplomacy with the Islamic World 258 The Second Part of the World: Charlemagne and North Africa 2 59 All-Out War: The Emirates ofItaly 272 Dogs in the Nighttime 281 Death of an Elephant 282 Bibliography ■ 291 Index • 357
In the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a gift by the ‘Abbasid Caliph. Harun al-Rashid. This extraordi nary moment was part of a much wider set of diplomatic relations between the Carolingian dynasty and the Islamic world, including not only the Caliphate in the east but also Umayyad al-Andalus, North Africa, the Muslim lords of Italy and a varied cast of warlords, pirates and renegades. The Emperor and the Elephant offers a new account of these relations. By drawing on Arabic sources that help explain how and why Muslim rulers engaged with Charlemagne and his family, Sam Ottewill-Soulsby provides a fresh perspective on a subject that has until now been dominated by and seen through western sources. The Emperor and the Elephant demon strates the fundamental importance of these diplomatic relations to everyone involved. Charlemagne and Harun alRashid s imperial ambitions at home were shaped by their dealings abroad. Populated by canny border lords who lived in multiple worlds, the long and shifting frontier between al-Andalus and the Franks presented both powers with opportunities and dangers, which their diplomats sought to manage. Tracking the movement of envoy s and messengers across the Pyrenees, the Med iterranean and beyond, and the complex ideas that lay behind them, this book examines the ways in which Christians and Muslims could make common cause in an age of faith.
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CONTENTS Illustrations ■ xi Acknowledgements • xiii Abbreviations ■ XV CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 Introduction i Diplomacy 17 Political Context 18 Sources 23 Perception and Practice in Carolingian Diplomacy with the Islamic World 31 Problems ofPerspective 31 Considering the Other 33 Christ and Belial 41 Envoys 49 Travel 58 Reception 70 Gifts 83 Eating the Fish 85 Carolingian Diplomacy with the 'Abbasid Caliphate 87 Existential Questions 91 Motivations 96 The Alliance System 97 Patriarchs and Politics 106 Prestige Diplomacy 114 [vii]
[viii] CONTENTS First Contact: Pippin III and al-Mansur (767-768) 120 Charlemagne and Härün al-Rashid 124 The Elephant in the Room CHAPTER 4 The End of Carolingian Diplomacy with the 'Abbasid Caliphs (831) 144 Carolingian-Umayyad Diplomacy, Part 1: 751-820 147 The Frontier 151 The Beginning of Carolingian Relations with the Umayyads, 751-793 156 Sulaymän, Charlemagne, and the Roncesvalles Campaign, 777-781 159 An Unusual Proposition 170 My Girona, 781-793 172 751-793 Conclusion 175 The Franks on the Offensive, 796-812 CHAPTER 5 139 176 Useless Peace, 810-820 186 Conclusion 199 Carolingian-Umayyad Diplomacy, Part 2: 820-864 201 Disaster on the Frontier, 820-830 203 Leaders and Tribunes 209 Lights in the Sky 217 Charles the Bald and Umayyad Spain, 840-864 230 The Son of Evil, 847-851 234 Rebels and Vikings, 863-864 238 The Third King of Spain 243 The Martyrs of Cordoba 247 The End ofCarolingian-Umayyad Diplomacy 255
CONTENTS CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION [ix] The Central Mediterranean: The Limits of Carolingian Diplomacy with the Islamic World 258 The Second Part of the World: Charlemagne and North Africa 2 59 All-Out War: The Emirates ofItaly 272 Dogs in the Nighttime 281 Death of an Elephant 282 Bibliography ■ 291 Index • 357
In the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a gift by the ‘Abbasid Caliph. Harun al-Rashid. This extraordi nary moment was part of a much wider set of diplomatic relations between the Carolingian dynasty and the Islamic world, including not only the Caliphate in the east but also Umayyad al-Andalus, North Africa, the Muslim lords of Italy and a varied cast of warlords, pirates and renegades. The Emperor and the Elephant offers a new account of these relations. By drawing on Arabic sources that help explain how and why Muslim rulers engaged with Charlemagne and his family, Sam Ottewill-Soulsby provides a fresh perspective on a subject that has until now been dominated by and seen through western sources. The Emperor and the Elephant demon strates the fundamental importance of these diplomatic relations to everyone involved. Charlemagne and Harun alRashid's imperial ambitions at home were shaped by their dealings abroad. Populated by canny border lords who lived in multiple worlds, the long and shifting frontier between al-Andalus and the Franks presented both powers with opportunities and dangers, which their diplomats sought to manage. Tracking the movement of envoy's and messengers across the Pyrenees, the Med iterranean and beyond, and the complex ideas that lay behind them, this book examines the ways in which Christians and Muslims could make common cause in an age of faith. |
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