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

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

Chapter 1: At the Crossroads of Civilization

p. 3-5 - The Arab Conquests

Opening or Closure:Henri Pirenne.