#social-history

#social-history

This book asks: why these Black heroes? What did their blackness do within the worlds built through storytelling among Arabic-speaking Muslims in the Middle Ages? What possible futures did it conjure and delimit, what present orders did it explain, and what pasts did it help to index morally, geographically, and culturally?

These homes were busy, lived-in spaces filled with work, family, and social life, emphasizing their role as centers of economic and emotional experience during the Middle Ages.

Hospitals were a critical institution in the medieval world, providing essential support to the sick, poor, and needy in their communities.