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Notes on Glick, Thomas F. (2005). Islamic and Christian Spain in the early Middle Ages (2., rev. ed. ed.). Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-14771-3. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help).

Introduction

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p. xi-xiii - Traveling the Cultural frontier
history vs. myth. medievalism until mid 1970.Two cultures, forming of new cultural and social patterns.
p. xiii-xv - Comparison and Diffusion
comparative approach, geographic unity, contact of culture, diffusion, impact of Islamic upon Christian culture. Difference in socio-economics (urban-artisanal vs. static agrarian), importance of structures.
p. xv-xx - The New Historiography
Revised ed since 1979. New data in regional history, archeological discoveries, Spanish feudalism (old "small free proprietors"=Claudio Sanchez Albornoz, new Barbero and Vigil).
Theory of classical American cultural anthropology (A. L. Kroeber), structurationist (Anthony Giddens)
p. xx-xxii - A Question of Names
Spain=geography, Christian kingdoms, al-Andalus (lands of the vandals), Islamic Spain (ethnically misleading). Sefarad.

Part one: Society and Economy

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Chapter 1: At the Crossroads of Civilization

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p. 3-5 - The Arab Conquests
Opening or Closure:Henri Pirenne.