LEADER 04921nam 2200481 450 001 9910592985103321 005 20230206194452.0 010 $a3-031-04915-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7083171 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7083171 035 $a(CKB)24814907000041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924814907000041 100 $a20230206d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aMapping pre-modern Sicily $emaritime violence, cultural exchange, and imagination in the Mediterranean, 800-1700 /$fedited by Emily Sohmer Tai and Kathryn L. Reyerson 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland AG,$d[2022] 210 4$d©2022 215 $a1 online resource (359 pages) 225 1 $aMediterranean Perspectives 311 08$aPrint version: Sohmer Tai, Emily Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031049149 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily: Maritime Violence, Cultural Exchange, and Imagination in the Mediterranean -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Maritime Violence: Piracy and War -- Chapter 2: Struggle for the Strait -- Physical Description -- Strategic Significance -- Struggles of Antiquity -- Struggles of the Early Middle Ages -- Struggles of the High Middle Ages -- Struggles of the Late Middle Ages -- Strategic Significance Lost -- Chapter 3: Continuum of Violence in the Mediterranean World: The Case of Roger de Lauria -- The Charge of Piracy -- The Sources -- Medieval Piracy -- Battles and Raids -- Medieval Admirals and the Performance of Piracy -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: The Art of Raiding: The Catalan-Aragonese Raid of the Aegean in 1292 -- The Raid -- Goods Seized and Their Value -- Repercussions -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Sicily's Financial and Logistical Contribution: During the Military Campaign of Alfonso V for Conquest of Naples -- Part II: Travel and Trade -- Chapter 6: Trade Relations Between Sicily, Ifr??qiya, and Egypt Under the Fatimids and Zirids of Ifr??qiya (Tenth-Eleventh Centuries) -- Renowned and Exported Productions from Sicily -- The Growth of Maritime Trade in Sicily -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: The Increase of Good Customs: Muslim Resistance and Material Concerns in Post-Norman Sicily -- Chapter 8: Trade Between the French Midi and the Kingdom of Sicily -- Introduction -- Southern French Merchants in the Kingdom of Sicily -- Trade Under Foreign Flag: The Trading Ventures of the "Sanctus Egidius" and "Girfalcus" (1248) -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Compassion, Fear, Fugitive Slaves, and a Pirates' Shrine: Lampedusa, ca. 1550-ca. 1750 -- Part III: Literary and Material Culture. 327 $aChapter 10: The End of Muslim Sicily: A Poetics of Fitna -- Arabic Historiographers on the End of Muslim Sicily -- What Is Fitna? -- Al-Tam?m?'s "Ifranjiyya" -- Ibn ?amd?s's Fitna -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11: Neocastro's Epic History -- Chapter 12: "The Luxuriant Southern Scene" Textiles as Reflections of Power in the Kingdom of Southern Italy and Sicily -- Chapter 13: Ghosts of Admiral Roger: Piracy and Political Fantasy in Tirant lo Blanc -- Corsairs and Crusaders: Models for Tirant lo Blanc -- Tirant lo Blanc as Corsair Admiral -- Piracy and Mediterranean "Connectivity" -- Conclusion -- Part IV: Digital Sicily -- Chapter 14: Digital Mapping Technology and the War of the Sicilian Vespers: Using New Methods to Better Understand Old Problems -- Introduction -- Project Description and the Integration of Digital Mapping Technology -- New Directions for History and Digital Mapping -- Conclusions -- Chapter 15: The Norman Sicily Project: An Ongoing, Web-Based Effort to Promote the Island's Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Past -- Methodology -- An Example of What We Can Learn from the Project: Connections Between People and Places -- Another Example of What We Can Learn from the Project: An Opportunity for Comparison -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Printed Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Databases and Resources -- Digital Software Sites -- Index. 410 0$aMediterranean perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) 606 $aHistory 606 $aPiracy 607 $aSicily (Italy)$xHistory$y15th-18th centuries 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aPiracy. 676 $a364.164 702 $aReyerson$b Kathryn 702 $aTai$b Emily Sohmer 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910592985103321 996 $aMapping pre-modern Sicily$93009831 997 $aUNINA