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Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily

Maritime Violence, Cultural Exchange, and Imagination in the Mediterranean, 800-1700

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Editors:
  1. Emily Sohmer Tai

    1. Department of History, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, Bayside, USA

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  2. Kathryn L. Reyerson

    1. Department of History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

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  • Examines the Mediterranean sea as a site of cultural productivity and conflict
  • Redefines how history as a discipline works by focusing n
  • Integrates traditional and digital methodologies

Part of the book series: Mediterranean Perspectives (MEPERS)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Kathryn L. Reyerson, Emily Sohmer Tai
    Pages 1-9

  5. Literary and Material Culture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. The End of Muslim Sicily: A Poetics of Fitna

      • Nicola Carpentieri
      Pages 175-192

    3. Neocastro’s Epic History

      • Clifford R. Backman
      Pages 193-206

    4. “The Luxuriant Southern Scene” Textiles as Reflections of Power in the Kingdom of Southern Italy and Sicily

      • Joanna Drell
      Pages 207-224

    5. Ghosts of Admiral Roger: Piracy and Political Fantasy in Tirant lo Blanc

      • Emily Sohmer Tai
      Pages 225-242
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About this book

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 world history and medieval studies into a single volume, this book offers new insights into the history of medieval Sicily and the study of maritime violence. As several of the essays in this volume demonstrate, maritime violence fundamentally shaped experience in the medieval Mediterranean, as every ship that sailed, even those launched for commerce or travel, anticipated the possibility of encountering pirates, or dabbling in piracy themselves.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, Bayside, USA

    Emily Sohmer Tai

  • Department of History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Kathryn L. Reyerson

About the editors

Emily Sohmer Tai is Associate Professor of History at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, USA. 

Kathryn L. Reyerson is Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.   

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily

  • Book Subtitle: Maritime Violence, Cultural Exchange, and Imagination in the Mediterranean, 800-1700

  • Editors: Emily Sohmer Tai, Kathryn L. Reyerson

  • Series Title: Mediterranean Perspectives

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04915-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04914-9Published: 09 September 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04917-0Published: 10 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04915-6Published: 08 September 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2731-5592

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-5606

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 346

  • Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Medieval Europe, History of Italy, Cultural History

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