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Barbara Fuchs, Emily Weissbourd (eds.), Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean, (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2015)
No full textRoutes of Daily Practices: Food, Clothing and Linguistic Choices in the Study of Pluralism in Premodern Mediterranean Port Cities
No full textThe aim of this article is to contribute to the rich and important Braudelian tradition in the study of the Mediterranean and how its One-Plural paradigm could be observed and analysed in daily behaviours involving tendencies towards the hybridisation and differentiation of foreign groups and individual material practices in different pre-modern Mediterranean port cities. After providing an overview of how scholarship has questioned the issue of the conceptual unity of the Mediterranean, the article focuses on the employment of material practices in the historical inquiry as a tool for highlighting meaningful behaviour in cultural identity’s negotiation and affirmation in plural environments. The aim is to expound how a comparison of the combination of these identitarian visual expressions in distant Mediterranean urban environments linked by maritime routes offers meaningful insights into how the political context, and not a global Mediterranean attitude, served to shape specific answers to the problem of cultural pluralism
Michael Franklin, Orientalist Jones: Sir William Jones, Poet Lawyer and Linguist 1746-1794 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
No full textGiovanni Ricci, Appello al Turco. I confini infranti del Rinascimento (Roma: Viella 2011)
No full textKristjan Ahronson, Into the Ocean. Vikings, Irish, and Environmental Change in Iceland and the North (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2015)
No full textBoccadamo Giuliana, Napoli e l'Islam. Storie di musulmani, schiavi e rinnegati in età moderna (Napoli: D'Auria, 2010)
No full textAnthony Molho, Ετεροδοξία, Πειθάρχηση, Απόκρυψη στις απαρχές των Νεοτέρων χρόνων. Αναστοχασμοι για μια ευρωπαϊκη παραδοση / Dissent, Discipline, Dissimulation in Early Modern Europe: Reflections on a European Tradition
Full text linkEvangelia Skoufari (a cura di), La Serenissima a Cipro. Incontri di culture nel Cinquecento (Roma: Viell, 2013)
No full textDomesticating the Turks, Staging Otherness. The Tradition of Embodying the Turks, the Parata dei Turchi of Potenza and Its Narration in 20th-Century Folkloric Descriptions
No full textThe aim of the essay is to analyse the presence of Oriental characters in the patron
saint’s Feast of San Gerardo, taking place in the city of Potenza on 29 May. After offering
an insight into the integration of Oriental characters into Italian early modern
culture, the paper will first focus on the ‘historicity’ of the Parata dei Turchi and its
carnivalesque function. It will then move to the way in which the Turks were represented
between the 19th and 20th centuries — that is, the period from which sources
present it as an already long-established tradition — seeking to offer a contribution
to the interpretation of the tradition of the parading of Turkish masks on the annual
procession of San Gerardo
«Passaggio a Nasso» (PERASMA STIN NAXO): I EIKONA TIS NAXOU TON 17o AIONA SE MIA ITALIKI TAXIDIOTIKI MARTIRIA GIA TO AIGAIO
No full textThis essay aims to offer a contribution in the way the island of Naxos was seen and
described in a travel narrative to Italian readers in the second half of the 17th century.
Firstly, it discusses the origin of the attraction of Eastern Mediterranean countries and
Greece for both European travellers and readers, focussing on the “teacher” role of
the writer-traveller and his capacity to reach a wider audience due to the boom of the
printed book market. Secondly, the essay considers the role of the Congregation De
Propaganda Fide in the stimulation of knowledge about the Aegean islands. This was
particularly due to the numerous reports sent by apostolic visitors and missionaries
from those areas to Rome, concerning the life of the local Catholic communities. It is
precisely one of these accounts, written by the monsignor Giuseppe Sebastiani, that
is analysed in the third part of this paper, looking for the way Naxos was experienced
and known. After describing the most characteristic features of the island, this last
part examines the crucial role of Naxos both in the balance of Mediterranean power
and in the Catholic Aegean Sea, where it represented one the highest example to be
followed in the management of Catholic-Orthodox environments
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