Can We Talk Mediterranean

Author : Brian A. Catlos,Sharon Kinoshita
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319557267

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Can We Talk Mediterranean? by Brian A. Catlos,Sharon Kinoshita Pdf

This book provides a systematic framework for the emerging field of Mediterranean studies, collecting essays from scholars of history, literature, religion, and art history that seek a more fluid understanding of “Mediterranean.” It emphasizes the interdependence of Mediterranean regions and the rich interaction (both peaceful and bellicose, at sea and on land) between them. It avoids applying the national, cultural and ethnic categories that developed with the post-Enlightenment domination of northwestern Europe over the academy, working instead towards a dynamic and thoroughly interdisciplinary picture of the Mediterranean. Including an extensive bibliography and a conversation between leading scholars in the field, Can We Talk Mediterranean? lays the groundwork for a new critical and conceptual approach to the region.

Author : Matthias B. Lehmann,Jessica M. Marglin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253048004

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Jews and the Mediterranean by Matthias B. Lehmann,Jessica M. Marglin Pdf

A selection of essays examining the significance of what Jewish history and Mediterranean studies contribute to our knowledge of the other. Jews and the Mediterranean considers the historical potency and uniqueness of what happens when Sephardi, Mizrahi, and Ashkenazi Jews meet in the Mediterranean region. By focusing on the specificity of the Jewish experience, the essays gathered in this volume emphasize human agency and culture over the length of Mediterranean history. This collection draws attention to what made Jewish people distinctive and warns against facile notions of Mediterranean connectivity, diversity, fluidity, and hybridity, presenting a new assessment of the Jewish experience in the Mediterranean.

Author : Robert Clines
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108485340

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A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean by Robert Clines Pdf

Recounts a Jewish-born Catholic priest's effort to prove he was Catholic to anyone who doubted him, including himself.

Author : yasser elhariry,Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319717647

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Critically Mediterranean by yasser elhariry,Edwige Tamalet Talbayev Pdf

Traversed by masses of migrants and wracked by environmental and economic change, the Mediterranean has come to connote crisis. In this context, Critically Mediterranean asks how the theories and methodologies of Mediterranean studies may be brought to bear upon the modern and contemporary periods. Contributors explore how the Mediterranean informs philosophy, phenomenology, the poetics of time and space, and literary theory. Ranging from some of the earliest twentieth-century material on the Mediterranean to Edmond Amran El Maleh, Christoforos Savva, Orhan Pamuk, and Etel Adnan, the essays ask how modern and contemporary Mediterraneans may be deployed in political, cultural, artistic, and literary practice. The critical Mediterranean that emerges is plural and performative—a medium through which subjects may negotiate imagined relations with the world around them. Vibrant and deeply interdisciplinary, Critically Mediterranean offers timely interventions for a sea in crisis.

Author : Céline Dauverd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107062368

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Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean by Céline Dauverd Pdf

"Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean Genoese Merchants and the Spanish Crown. This book examines the alliance between the Spanish Crown and Genoese merchant bankers in southern Italy throughout the early modern era, when Spain and Genoa developed a symbiotic economic relationship, undergirded by a cultural and spiritual alliance. Analyzing early modern imperialism, migration, and trade, this book shows that the spiritual entente between the two nations was mainly informed by the religious division of the Mediterranean Sea. The Turkish threat in the Mediterranean reinforced the commitment of both the Spanish Crown and the Genoese merchants to Christianity. Spain's imperial strategy was reinforced by its willingness to acculturate to southern Italy through organized beneficence, representation at civic ceremonies, and spiritual guidance during religious holidays. Celine Dauverd is Assistant Professor of History and a board member of the Mediterranean Studies Group at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on sociocultural relations between Spain and Italy during the early modern era (1450-1650). She has published articles in the Sixteenth Century Journal, the Journal of World History, Mediterranean Studies, and the Journal of Levantine Studies"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004465329

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Queering the Medieval Mediterranean: Transcultural Sea of Sex, Gender, Identity, and Culture by Anonim Pdf

Queering the Medieval Mediterranean analyzes the forgotten exchange of sexualities that was brought forth through the Mediterranean and its bordering landmasses. It highlights the importance of queerness and sexuality developed on the Mediterranean trade routes.

Author : Barbara Pezzotti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009451475

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Mediterranean Crime Fiction by Barbara Pezzotti Pdf

By exploring the transcultural nature of Mediterranean crime fiction, Barbara Pezzotti advocates for a regional 'reading' of the genre.

Author : David A. Wacks
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487531355

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Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World by David A. Wacks Pdf

Reading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean history, this book explains how Iberian authors reimagined the idea of crusade through the lens of Iberian geopolitics and social history. The crusades transformed Mediterranean history and inaugurated complex engagements between Western Europe, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East in ways that endure to this day. Narratives of crusades powerfully shaped European thinking about the East and continue to influence the representation of interactions between Christian and Muslim states in the region. The crusade, a French idea that gave rise to Iberian, North African, and Levantine campaigns, was very much a Mediterranean phenomenon. French and English authors wrote itineraries in the Holy Land, chronicles of the crusades, and fanciful accounts of Christian knights who championed the Latin Church in the East. This study aims to explore the ways in which Iberian authors imagined their role in the culture of crusade, both as participants and interpreters of narrative traditions of the crusading world from north of the Pyrenees.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520304604

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The Making of the Modern Mediterranean by Anonim Pdf

Studies of the pivotal historic place of the Mediterranean have long been dominated by specialists of its northern shores, that is, by European historians. The seven leading authors in this groundbreaking volume challenge views of Mediterranean space as shaped by European trajectories, and in doing so, they challenge our comfortable notions. Drawing perspectives from the Mediterranean’s eastern and southern shores, they ask anew: What is the Mediterranean? What are its borders, its defining characteristics? What forces of nature, politics, culture, or economics have made the Mediterranean, and how long have they or will they endure? Covering the sixteenth century to the twentieth, this timely volume brings the early modern world into conversation with the modern world in new ways, demonstrating that only recently can we differentiate the north and south into separate cultural and political zones. The Making of the Modern Mediterranean: Views from the South offers a blueprint for a new generation of readers to rethink the world we thought we knew.

Author : Andrea Celli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031074028

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Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy by Andrea Celli Pdf

In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dante’s Comedy be ‘Mediterranean’? Is it because of its Greek-Arabic and Islamic sources? Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy analyzes the ideological function of references to the sea in the study of the Comedy undertaken by Enrico Cerulli, a scholar of Somali-Ethiopian languages, and a colonial governor of ‘Italian East Africa.’ Then it presents novel lines of inquiry on the reception and appropriation of the poem, such as the presence of Islamic sources in early commentaries of the Comedy, and cross-cultural allusions to Dante’s Hell in some graffiti on the walls of the Spanish Inquisition prison in Palermo. The image of the Mediterranean that seeps through the poem and through the history of its circulation is vivid yet hardly idyllic.

Author : Peregrine Horden,Nicholas Purcell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000702996

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The Boundless Sea by Peregrine Horden,Nicholas Purcell Pdf

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of twelve articles written both jointly and individually by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell as they have participated in the debates generated by their major work, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (2000). One theme in those debates has been how a comprehensive Mediterranean history can be written: how an approach to Mediterranean history by way of its ecologies and the communications between them can be joined up with more mainstream forms of enquiry – cultural, social, economic, and political, with their specific chronologies and turning points. The second theme raises the question of how Mediterranean history can be fitted into a larger, indeed global history. It concerns the definition of the Mediterranean in space, the way to characterise its frontiers, and the relations between the region so defined and the other large spaces, many of them oceans, to which historians have increasingly turned for novel disciplinary-cum-geographical units of study. A volume collecting the two authors’ studies on both these themes, as well as their reply to critics of The Corrupting Sea, should prove invaluable to students and scholars from a number of disciplines: ancient, medieval and early modern history, archaeology, and social anthropology. (CS1083).

Author : Paul Michael Johnson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487536404

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Affective Geographies by Paul Michael Johnson Pdf

For Miguel de Cervantes, to narrate a Mediterranean experience is to necessarily speak of an emotional experience. Affective Geographies takes as its point of departure the premise that literature is as influential in constructing the Mediterranean as are its geographic, climatic, or economic features. As the writer with the most vast and varied Mediterranean experience of his era, Cervantes is exceptionally well-suited for the critical task of recovering the literary Mediterranean. Engaging with the interdisciplinary fields of Mediterranean studies, affect theory, and the history of emotion, Paul Michael Johnson reads Cervantes’s texts alongside the affective structures that inscribe the Mediterranean as a space of conflict, commerce, expansion, and empire. In particular, he argues that Cervantes’s writing, with its uncommon focus on the Moorish, Islamic, and North African experience, can serve to realign misconceptions about the Mediterranean we have inherited today. Affective Geographies proposes that, with a more than four-hundred-year history of impacting the hearts and minds of readers, Cervantes’s works constitute a literary longue durée, ramifying beyond fiction to alter the popular imaginary and long-term cultural landscape.

Author : Bruce Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108658676

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The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible by Bruce Wells Pdf

Author : Pamela A. Patton and Maria Alessia Rossi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271095851

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Out of Bounds by Pamela A. Patton and Maria Alessia Rossi Pdf

Author : Alessandra Russo,Timothy Michael May
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271098142

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A New Antiquity by Alessandra Russo,Timothy Michael May Pdf