Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0124
Ali Atabey
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0003
Maria de Fátima Rosa
abstract:Since the dawn of Mesopotamian history, the Mediterranean Sea has been considered a natural frontier, both feared and admired as the Great Sea. With the settlement of the Amorites in Mesopotamia, whose cradle was thought of as the “Land of the Sea,” that is, the Mediterranean shore, the importance of this natural element became notorious. The voyages of the sovereigns of the Amorite Syro-Mesopotamian kingdom of Mari—Yahdun-Lim, Samsi-Addu, and Zimri-Lim—to the Mediterranean coast, which this article analyzes in detail, attest to this importance. These journeys were previously studied by Abraham Malamat, among others. But due to the absence of a monumental record to attest to the displacement of Zimri-Lim, the importance of the latter as well as the connection between them have not been thoroughly examined. This article does so.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0076
Bavjola Shatro Gami
This article focuses on the memoir of Musine Kokalari, the first woman writer in Albanian literature. Her memoir La mia vita universitaria (My University Life) was written in Italian during her stay in Rome as a student at Sapienza University. It was published only in 2009 (Tirana) and in 2016 (Rome) as a result of the author being harshly persecuted by the communist regime and her work being banned in Albania for almost half a century. Kokalari’s memoir is analyzed through a cultural and biographical approach as well as text analysis. Being a stranger and remaining one while living in Italy is a fundamental aspect of Kokalari’s memoir as she narrates her journey toward the expression of the self as an Albanian woman writer in fascist Rome.
本文以阿尔巴尼亚文学史上第一位女作家Musine Kokalari的回忆录为研究对象。她的回忆录《我的大学生活》(La mia vita universitaria)是她在罗马萨皮恩扎大学(Sapienza University)读书时用意大利语写的。由于作者受到共产主义政权的严厉迫害,她的作品在阿尔巴尼亚被禁了近半个世纪,这本书只在2009年(地拉那)和2016年(罗马)出版。通过文化和传记方法以及文本分析来分析Kokalari的回忆录。在科卡拉里的回忆录中,她讲述了自己作为一名阿尔巴尼亚女作家在法西斯罗马的自我表达之旅,作为一个陌生人,在意大利生活是她回忆录的一个基本方面。
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0131
Álvaro Ibarra
{"title":"Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames: Representation, Play, Transmedia by Ross Clare (review)","authors":"Álvaro Ibarra","doi":"10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0131","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85059,"journal":{"name":"Korea & world affairs","volume":"30 1","pages":"131 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43374745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0129
Selin Ipek
{"title":"Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean by Amanda Phillips (review)","authors":"Selin Ipek","doi":"10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85059,"journal":{"name":"Korea & world affairs","volume":"30 1","pages":"129 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43785695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0108
Susan L. Rosenstreich, Geraldo U. de Sousa, Ann E. Zimo, Darryl A. Phillips, Jesús-David Jerez-Gómez
abstract:A panel discussion on teaching the Mediterranean was convened at the 2021 Annual Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association. Three panelists presented their approaches to teaching the Mediterranean. These presentations were followed by a general discussion that included members of the audience.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0126
Mark I. Choate
{"title":"Italy’s Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean, 1895–1945 by Valerie McGuire (review)","authors":"Mark I. Choate","doi":"10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85059,"journal":{"name":"Korea & world affairs","volume":"30 1","pages":"126 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46251305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0051
Agata Kubala
abstract:This article considers the work of the Wrocław-based architect Eduard Schaubert during the twenty years he spent in Greece. His involvement in the conservation and documentation of the heritage of antique material culture demonstrates his commitment to the ideals of philhellenism, a phenomenon spreading across Europe with new momentum and in a new form at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This trend fueled political and cultural transformations associated with modernity, resulting in an independent Greek state and the influx of Western European lovers of ancient Greece. The image of Schaubert is compared to that of other Western European philhellenes arriving in the first half of the nineteenth century in the “land of the Hellenes.”
{"title":"Philhellenes in Nineteenth-Century Greece: The Case of Eduard Schaubert","authors":"Agata Kubala","doi":"10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/mediterraneanstu.30.1.0051","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article considers the work of the Wrocław-based architect Eduard Schaubert during the twenty years he spent in Greece. His involvement in the conservation and documentation of the heritage of antique material culture demonstrates his commitment to the ideals of philhellenism, a phenomenon spreading across Europe with new momentum and in a new form at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This trend fueled political and cultural transformations associated with modernity, resulting in an independent Greek state and the influx of Western European lovers of ancient Greece. The image of Schaubert is compared to that of other Western European philhellenes arriving in the first half of the nineteenth century in the “land of the Hellenes.”","PeriodicalId":85059,"journal":{"name":"Korea & world affairs","volume":"30 1","pages":"51 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46777668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-23DOI: 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.29.2.0132
Stella Alekou
abstract:This article does not discuss the intertextual allusions to Ovidian epistolography in Pliny's letters, but puts forward the claim that women in both Ovid's and Pliny's letters are part of a female literary culture that implicitly clashes with the conventional gender patterns of what constitutes a female exemplum and a female anti-exemplum. This article presents Pliny's letters as both prescriptive and descriptive, and argues that the texts extol as well as advocate specific patterns of behavior, including that of the ideal wife. The examination of the Plinian text is enriched with a parallel reading of Ovid's letters in the Heroïdes, in which fictional women appear as "enabled" to rewrite their pseudo-biographies, even though these are composed and "edited" by a male poet. In reexamining Ovid's unconventional female mythological constructions vis-à-vis the Plinian perception of distinguished women of Roman history, the reader is eventually encouraged to reconsider some well-established views on Pliny's social, cultural, and political "conservatism."
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Pub Date : 2021-11-23DOI: 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.29.2.0182
Brian Sandberg
abstract:French actors mediated North African cultures and shaped French perceptions of others in the Mediterranean world during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Francophone intermediaries experienced predominantly Muslim cultures as consuls, diplomats, military officers, naval captains, merchants, travelers, and prisoners in North Africa and across the Mediterranean during this period. This article reconsiders issues of race and conflict in the early modern Mediterranean by globalizing Francophone sources on the figure of the "Moor" and the conceptual space of the "Barbary Coast" in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. After introducing French cultural intermediaries in the Mediterranean, the article analyzes their depictions of North Africans through conflict narratives, geographic works, and ethnographic descriptions. New evidence of racial distinctions in the early modern French Mediterranean suggests that conflict reshaped French understandings of Muslims and produced racialized conceptions of "Moors." This finding supports recent historical interpretations of race as a category of differentiation already articulated and operative in the early modern world.
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