Spectral sea : Mediterranean palimpsests in European culture /

From the dawn of ancient civilization to modern times, the Mediterranean Sea looms in the imagination of the people living on its shores as a space of myth and adventure, of conquest and confrontation, of migration and settlement, of religious ferment and conflict. Since its waters linked the earlie...

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Other Authors: Nichols, Stephen G. (Editor), Küpper, Joachim (Editor), Kablitz, Andreas (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2017]
Series:Medieval interventions ; v. 8.
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Table of Contents:
  • On the Salutary Effects of Empire: Muslims, Jews, and the Calculus of Benefaction / Marina Rustow
  • Thought Things: Greek, Arabic, Latin / Daniel Heller-Roazen
  • Greek Fathers, Roman Tyrants, Spanish Martyrs: The Invention of European Vernacular Language / Stephen G. Nichols
  • The Gaze of the Other: Decentered Vision and Language in Fifteenth-Century French Poets / Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
  • The Uncanny Beyond: The Mediterranean as Imaginary Frontier of Medieval Christian Culture / Jan-Dirk Müller
  • Crusade Witness: Joinvillea's Vie de Saint Louis / Axel Rüth
  • Rome, Italy and the End of the History of Salvation: Petrarcha's Italia mia / Gerhard Regn
  • Sentimental Revivals: Gérard de Nervala's Voyage en Orient / Joachim Küpper
  • "Geist" as Medium of Art: Goethea's West-östlicher Divan / David E. Wellbery.