Sicily and the Mediterranean

The island of Sicily has for centuries been a meeting point where civilizations transformed one another and gave life to the cultural developments at the foundation of European modernity. The essays collected here explore Sicily as a place where these cultural interactions have produced conflict but also new material and intellectual exchange.

Autorentext
Norma Bouchard, University of Connecticut, USA Gaetano Cipolla, St. John's University, USA Pinella Di Gregorio, University of Catania, Italy Geoffrey Hull, Macquarie University, New South Wales Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh, USA Iolanda Lanzafame, University of Catania, Italy Giovanna Palombo, University of California, Berkeley, USA Maria Sorbello, University of Catania, Italy

Inhalt

Introduction; Claudia Karagoz and Giovanna Summerfield

1. Sicily and Greece; Gaetano Cipolla
2. The Normans of Sicily from 'the Other Side': The Medieval Arabic Sources; Giovanna Palombo
3. The Artistic Culture of Twelfth-Century Sicily, with a Focus on Palermo; William Tronzo
4. The Oldest Maltese Surnames: A Window on Sicily's Medieval History; Geoffrey Hull
5. Linguistic Contaminations in Sicily: From the Roman Rule to the Present; Iolanda Lanzafame
6. Sicily, terra ballerina: Shifting Terrain in a Contested Fascist-era Mediterranean; Lina Insana
7. Sicily: A Geopolitical Oil Rig in the Mediterranean Sea; Pinella Di Gregorio
8. Multiculturalism in the Mediterranean Basin: An Overview of Recent Immigration to Sicily; Maria Sorbello
9. Vincenzo Consolo's Mediterranean Journeys: From Sicily to the Global South(s); Norma Bouchard