Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World, Granara William, Mottahedeh Roy

Автор: William Granara
Название: Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World
ISBN: 1788313062 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788313063
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: In 902 the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily fell, and the island would remain under Muslim control until the arrival of the Normans in the eleventh century. Drawing on a lifetime of translating and linguistic experience, William Granara here focuses on the various ways in which medieval Arab historians, geographers, jurists and philologists imagined and articulated their ever-changing identities in this turbulent period. All of these authors sought to make sense of the island's dramatic twists, including conquest and struggles over political sovereignty, and the painful decline of social and cultural life. Writing about Siqilliya involved drawing from memory, conjecture and then-current theories of why nations and people rose and fell. In so doing, Granara considers and translates, often for the first time, a vast range of primary sources - from the master chronicles of Ibn al-Athir and Ibn Khadun to biographical dictionaries, geographical works, legal treatises and poetry - and modern scholarship not available in English. He charts the shift from Sicily as 'warrior outpost' to vital and productive hub that would transform the medieval Islamic world, and indeed the entire Mediterranean.

Автор: Barbara Korte, Fr?d?ric Regard
Название: Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain
ISBN: 3110367939 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110367935
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Цена: 111510.00 T
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Описание: Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality television. With a focus on Britain, its chapters divide their attention between current representations of poverty and important earlier narratives that have retained significant relevance today.The book's contributions discuss the representation of social suffering with attention to agencies of enunciation, ethical implications of 'voice' and 'listening', limits of narratability, the pitfalls of sensationalism, voyeurism and sentimentalism, potentials and restrictions inherent in specific representational techniques, modes and genres; cultural markets for poverty and precarity. Overall, the book suggests that analysis of poverty narratives requires an intersection of theoretical reflection and a close reading of texts.

Автор: McPherson Robert S., Neel Susan R.
Название: Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875
ISBN: 0806153857 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806153858
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer's work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as one of the great American surveying expeditions of the nineteenth century. By skillfully weaving the surveyors' diary entries, field notes, and correspondence with newspaper accounts, historians Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel bring the Hayden Survey to life. Mapping the Four Corners provides an entertaining, engaging narrative of the team's experiences, contextualized with a thoughtful introduction and conclusion. Accompanied by the great photographer William Henry Jackson, Hayden's team quickly found their trip to be more challenging than expected. The travelers describe wrangling half-wild pack mules, trying to sleep in rain-soaked blankets, and making tea from muddy, alkaline water. Along the way, they encountered diverse peoples, evidence of prehistoric civilizations, and spectacular scenery - Hispanic villages in Colorado and New Mexico; Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, and other Anasazi sites; and the Hopi mesas. Not everyone they met was glad to see them: in southeastern Utah surveyors fought and escaped a band of Utes and Paiutes who recognized that the survey meant dispossession from their homeland. Hayden saw his expedition as a scientific endeavor focused on geology, geographic description, cartographic accuracy, and even ethnography, but the search for economic potential was a significant underlying motive. As this book shows, these pragmatic scientists were on the lookout for gold beneath every rock, grazing lands in every valley, and economic opportunity around each bend in the trail. The Hayden Survey ultimately shaped the American imagination in contradictory ways, solidifying the idea of ""progress"" - and government funding of its pursuit - while also revealing, via Jackson's photographs, a landscape with a beauty hitherto unknown and unimagined.

Название: Narrating the city
ISBN: 1782387757 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782387756
Издательство: Berghahn
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In recent decades, the insight that narration shapes our perception of reality has inspired and influenced the most innovative historical accounts. Focusing on new research, this volume explores the history of non-elite populations in cities from Caracas to Vienna, and Paris to Belgrade. Narration is central to the theme of each contribution, whether as a means of description, a methodological approach, or basic story telling. This book brings together research that both asks classical socio-historical questions and takes narration seriously, engaging with novels, films, local history accounts, petitions to municipal authorities, and interviews with alternative cinema activists.

Автор: Elisabeth Boesen, Fabienne Lentz, Michel Margue, Denis Scuto, Renee Wagener
Название: Peripheral Memories: Public & Private Forms of Experiencing & Narrating the Past
ISBN: 3837621162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783837621167
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: After a period of intense work on national memory cultures, we are observing a growing interest in memory both as a social and an individual practice. Memory studies tend to focus on a particular field of memory processes, namely those connected with war, persecution and expulsion. In this sense, the memory -- or rather the trauma -- of the Holocaust is paradigmatic for the entire research field. The Holocaust is furthermore increasingly understood as constitutive of a global memory community which transcends national memories and mediates universal values. The present volume diverges from this perspective by dealing also with everyday subjects of memory. This allows for a more complete view of the interdependencies between public and private memory and, more specifically, public and family memory.

Автор: Takayama
Название: Sicily and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 1138496197 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138496194
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book is a collection of milestone articles of a leading scholar in the study of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, one of the most fascinating but neglected kingdoms in the medieval world.

Автор: Davis-Secord Sarah
Название: Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
ISBN: 1501752162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501752162
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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In Where Three Worlds Met, Sarah Davis-Secord investigates Sicily's place within the religious, diplomatic, military, commercial, and intellectual networks of the Mediterranean by tracing the patterns of travel, trade, and communication among Christians (Latin and Greek), Muslims, and Jews. By looking at the island across this long expanse of time and during the periods of transition from one dominant culture to another, Davis-Secord uncovers the patterns that defined and redefined the broader Muslim-Christian encounter in the Middle Ages.

Автор: Wacks, David A.
Название: Medieval iberian crusade fiction and the mediterranean world
ISBN: 1487505019 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781487505011
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Medieval Iberian authors adapted French crusader culture to give voice to their own reality, shaped by domestic military conflict with Islam and an obsession with the conversion of subject Muslims and Jews.

Автор: Montville Joseph V.
Название: History as Prelude: Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean
ISBN: 0739168142 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739168141
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: This collection of essays by seven highly respected scholars is a straightforward narrative of real world--intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, esthetic--creative engagement among Jews, Muslims, and some Christians in daily life in Spain and around the Mediterranean. History as Prelude is a major contribution to the Israeli-Arab peace process because it undermines--in fact, blows away--the efforts of propagandists who serve governments or political movements to negate the reality of the Arab-Jewish relationship in the medieval Mediterranean. The contributors, in unassuming, well-researched scholarship have erected a wall protecting historical reality from distortion, providing irrefutable--and often delightful--examples of creative coexistence.

Автор: Hamilton Michelle M., Silleras-Fernandez Nuria
Название: In and of the Mediterranean: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies
ISBN: 0826520294 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826520296
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Цена: 87780.00 T
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Описание: The Iberian Peninsula has always been an integral part of the Mediterranean world, from the age of Tartessos and the Phoenicians to our own era and the Union for the Mediterranean. The cutting-edge essays in this volume examine what it means for medieval and early modern Iberia and its people to be considered as part of the Mediterranean.

Автор: Marcos Cobaleda Marнa
Название: Artistic and Cultural Dialogues in the Late Medieval Mediterranean
ISBN: 3030533654 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030533656
Издательство: Springer
Цена: 65210.00 T
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Описание: This book analyses the artistic and cultural legacy of Western Islamic societies and their interactions with Islamic, Christian and Jewish societies in the framework of the late medieval Mediterranean, from a range of multi-disciplinary perspectives.

Автор: Jacoby, David
Название: Medieval Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond
ISBN: 0367888688 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367888688
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The articles in this collection cover the region extending from Italy to the Black Sea and to Egypt, over a period of seven centuries, with an emphasis on the considerable economic and social interaction between the West and the regions of the Eastern Mediterranean. They represent key works in the oeuvre of David Jacoby, the doyen of scholars in