Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily Maritime Violence, Cultural Exchange, and Imagination in the Mediterranean, 800-1700
This book synthesizes three fields of inquiry on the cutting edge of scholarship in medieval studies and world history: the history of medieval Sicily; the history of maritime violence, often named as piracy; and digital humanities. By merging these seemingly disparate strands in the scholarship of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | Mediterranean Perspectives
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Maritime Violence: Piracy and War: The Struggle for the Strait
- Chapter 3: The Sicilian Vespers: Roger de Lauria and the Ambiguities of Violence
- Chapter 4: The Art of Raiding: The Catalan-Aragonese 1292 Expedition into the Aegean Sea
- Chapter 5: Logistical Arrangements Between Sicily and Southern Italy during Alfonso V’s Conquest of Naples, 1435-1442
- Chapter 6: Travel and Trade: Violence and Exchange in Post-Norman Sicily
- Chapter 7: Grand Tour and Pilgrimage: Sicily in the Imagination of Ibn Jubayr
- Chapter 8: Four men in a boat. Trade practices between the French Midi and the Kingdom of Sicily in the 12th and 13th centuries
- Chapter 9: Literary and Material Culture: Creating the "Communitas Siciliae" in the Post-Vespers Years
- Chapter 10: “The Luxuriant Southern Scene:” Textiles, Clothing and Memory in the Medieval Kingdom of Southern Italy and Sicily
- Chapter11: Ghosts of Admiral Roger: Piracy and Political Fantasy in Tirant lo Blanc
- Chapter 12: Digital Sicily: Digital Mapping Technology and the War of Sicilian Vespers: Using New Methods to Better Understand Old Problems
- Chapter 13: The Norman Sicily Project: A Digital Portal to Sicily's Norman Past.