This recording brings together the music and poetry of the three great Mediterranean cultures of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Judaism, Christendom and Islam. These faiths and their cultures co-existed in the West in Moorish Andalusia (where the King had a court chapel with musicians and poets from all three faiths), and in the East in Christian Byzantium. From Lebanon, Turkey, Cortona and Montserrat, this is the devotional music of ordinary people who prayed, danced and sang in praise of the divine as an integral part of their daily lives.