Research Articles

Elephant forests of the Classical Mediterranean
David H. Sick 
Pages 125-145, https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1816654

The Norman Sicilian court as a centre for the translation of Classical texts
Michael Angold 
Pages 147-167, https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1816653

A diplomacy woven with textiles: Medici-Ottoman relations during the late Renaissance
F. Özden Mercan 
Pages 169-188, https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1820696

Captives or crooks? Pirates, impostors, and Jewish communities in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire
Gürer Karagedikli &Yaron Ben-Naeh
Pages 189-209, https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1816660

Testimonium

Spiritual and practical instructions for pilgrims: a preliminary presentation of two unknown texts
Jonathan Rubin 
Pages 211-218, https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1820164

Book Reviews

Renaissance mass murder: civilians and soldiers during the Italian Wars by Stephen D. Bowd, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, 304 pp., 16 b/w figures, £65.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780198832614
Edward Muir 
Pages 219-221, https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1823661

José María Gil-Robles: leader of the Catholic Right during the Spanish Second Republic by Manuel Álvarez Tardío, Portland, Sussex Academic Press, 2018, 191 pp., £65.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9781845199036
Michael Seidman
Pages 221-225, https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1823663

Warriors, martyrs, and dervishes: moving frontiers, shifting identities in the land of Rome (13th–15th centuries) by Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Leiden, Brill, 2020, xii + 260 pp., US$119.00 (hardback), ISBN 9789004415669
Ahmet T. Karamustafa
Pages 225-227, https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1823664

The Routledge handbook of diet and nutrition in the Roman world edited by Paul Erdkamp and Claire Holleran, London and New York, Routledge, 2019, xvii, 362 pp., US$220.00, ISBN 9780815364344
Susan Weingarten 
Pages 228-231, https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1823665

Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment: a global and historical comparison by Ahmet Kuru, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, xvii + 303 pp., £26.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781108409476
Yasir Yılmaz 
Pages 231-235, https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1823697

Anarchism and political change in Spain: schism, polarisation and reconstruction of the Confederación Nacional Del Trabajo, 1939–1979 by Maggie Torres, Eastbourne, UK, Sussex Academic Press, 2019, 420 pp., £85.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781845199364
Sharon Wolfovich 
Pages 236-239, https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2020.1823698