Arising from a conference organized by the British Archaeological Association in Palermo in 2012, this book includes 16 papers that explores points of contact across the Latin, Greek and Islamic worlds between c. 1000 and c. 1250. The book's sixteen well-illustrated essays are of great use to specialists and provide non-specialists with a flavour of current work on cross-cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean. The teaching of Romanesque art and architecture is all but extinct in British universities and is often neglected by researchers. This wonderful series of books raises hopes for its resurrection. -James Alexander Cameron, The Berlington Magazine