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In the politically and militarily complex world of the medieval Eastern Mediterranean people and entities of different ethnic, religious and linguistic backgrounds came into close contact at many different levels, from everyday dealings in the marketplace to high diplomacy between competing states, thus providing scope for fertile cross-cultural interaction and permeation. This collective volume examines aspects of intercultural communication as reflected in Byzantine, Latin and Arabic documentary sources originating from or relating to the Eastern Mediterranean and ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. Twenty essays examine a variety of archival sources for the Latin East, explore chancery traditions in the culturally diverse society of Frankish Cyprus, and trace modes of communication and exchange between Byzantium, Islam and the West. Contributors are: Jean Richard, David Jacoby, Benjamin Z. Kedar, Michel Balard, Peter Schreiner, Michel Balivet, Catherine Otten-Froux, Svetlana V. Bliznyuk, Brenda Bolton, Karl Borchardt, Nicholas Coureas, William O. Duba, Charalambos Gasparis, Hubert Houben, Angel Nicolaou-Konnari, Johannes Pahlitzsch, and Kostis Smyrlis.

Diplomatics --- History --- Mediterranean Region --- Diplomatique --- History. --- Histoire --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Sources. --- Sources --- Documents --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Cartularies --- Historiography --- Archives --- Manuscripts --- Paleography --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Diplomatics - Latin Orient - History --- Diplomatics - Cyprus - History --- Diplomatics - Byzantine Empire - History --- Relations culturelles --- Méditerranée (région ; est) --- Orient latin --- Chypre --- Moyen âge --- Empire byzantin