...This chapter considers the contribution of the Book of Curiosities to our conceptualisation of the medieval Mediterranean as a shared maritime space. The Book of Curiosities is a rare example of a medieval Islamic treatise that has the Mediterranean maritime space as its centre of attention...

... Mediterranean. castration families eunuchs' perfect servants social construction of gender Theophylaktos of Orhid eunuchs feminine traits law codes castration within prohibitions against castration religious women Daniel prophet Apostles Devil Constantine I “the Great” emperor Julian the Apostate...

...This chapter discusses the Andanças (“Wanderings”) of Castilian knight Pero Tafur, a travel narrative with a conflicted vision of the Mediterranean and of knightly travel. Torn between the territorial stance of reconquista and courtly traditions of inter-confessional hospitality, Tafur's account...

...This chapter analyzes the specific health risks, the burden of disease, and the access to health care of refugees and migrants in the Eastern Mediterranean and Balkan Migration Route (EMBMR) during different phases of the migratory process. It proposes interventions for improvement of the well...

...This chapter outlines the intellectual background behind the central question posed by the volume: How are we to explain the dramatic surge of interregional relations across the eastern Mediterranean during the early first millennium BCE? Drawing inspiration from major historical and archaeological...

...This chapter uses critical geography and Mediterranean studies to describe the relationship between the cosmopolitan language and territory. The modern nation-state sees its sovereignty as co-extensive with territory. In the medieval world, however, sovereignty worked differently. The chapter...

... in the Mediterranean in the eighteenth century and arguably to maintain semicolonial influence in the 14 region thereafter. ²² First French, occasionally Dutch, often Tuscan, and—in the nineteenth century, after Italy became a nation—Italian, this population underwent a dizzying series of dramatic legal...

... Spain and around the Mediterranean. The New Age Travellers, young nomads of the 1970s and 1980s, who adopted a lifestyle of illegal trespass out of their peregrinations between music festivals and concerts, spread out from Britain to continental Europe, adopting a near stateless existence. Notably...

...This chapter, which addresses the construction of Arthur Evans's modernist “peace memorial” and the writing of his Palace of Minos, also presents a consideration of the gold “Ring of Nestor.” The relationship between modern movement architecture and Mediterranean archaeology...

...Figure 3.1 Map of settlements on the Mediterranean coast of Iberia. Figure 3.2 Plans of El Calvari (after Bea, Diloli, and Vilaseca 20002, modified) and Aldovesta (after Mascort, Sanmartí, and Santacana 1991 , modified). Figure 3.3 Comparative plans of some of the mentioned sites...

... Juxtaposition of early Islamic centers of timber activity (according to Lombard) and Iron Age Phoenician ports on the southern Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula. Early Islamic Centers of Timber Activity Iron Age Phoenician Ports on the Iberian Peninsula Al-Qasr (Alcacer do Sal...

...This chapter argues that Luís de Camões’s Os Lusíadas, typically framed as the first global epic, operates instead within the cartographic framework of the late fifteenth century (contemporaneous with Vasco da Gama). Camões’s poem describes the Indian Ocean as a transposition of the Mediterranean...

...This chapter proposes Mediterranean thinking as a form of anticolonial theory in the mid-twentieth-century Gulf-Caribbean. It describes “America's Caribbean” as a contested touristic and policy arena in the decolonizing 1930s and 1940s. The chapter traces the 1890s United States, 1790s Haiti...

...This chapter reviews the various counterfactual black Spartacuses and Jacobins, George Washingtons and Napoleons, that raise fundamental questions about the nature and status of the comparative thinking under the Mediterranean umbrella. It opens out to a provisional endpoint on the as-yet...

...This book offers an historical anthropology of the re-emergence of the Mediterranean as a transnational region in modern times. It examines this region formation by showing how Sicilian poaching in North African fishing grounds transformed transnational political action, imaginaries, and relations...

... development across the Mediterranean of botanical illustrations in a pharmacological treatise by Dioscorides. The introduction finally gives an overview of the structure of the book and includes a section on the book's transliteration conventions. biodiversity botanical tradition ancient recognition...

...Figure 5.1 Map of the Iberian Peninsula showing the limits of the distribution of Greek ceramics around 400 BC and places mentioned in the text. Within the Mediterranean region, the Iberian Peninsula is the only place where Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and Greeks interacted during the same time...

...This chapter examines the cartographical representation of Mediterranean maritime spaces in the Book of Curiosities. In the Book of Curiosities, the Mediterranean is shown as a perfect oval, dense with hundreds of harbors and islands, but unrecognizably abstract. Other perfectly abstract maps...