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Spectral Sea - Mediterranean Palimpsests in European Culture (Hardcover, New edition)
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Spectral Sea - Mediterranean Palimpsests in European Culture (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Medieval Interventions, 8
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From the dawn of ancient civilization to modern times, the
Mediterranean Sea looms in the imagination of the people living on
its shores as a space of myth and adventure, of conquest and
confrontation, of migration and settlement, of religious ferment
and conflict. Since its waters linked the earliest empires and
centers of civilization, the Mediterranean generated globalization
and multiculturalism. It gave birth to the three great
monotheisms-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-religions of the book,
of the land and of the sea. Over the centuries, the Mediterranean
witnessed the rise and fall of some of the oldest civilizations in
the world. And as these cultures succeeded one another, century
after century, each left a tantalizing imprint on later societies.
Like the ancient artifacts constantly washed up from its depths,
the lost cities and monuments abandoned in its deserts or sunk
beneath its waves, Mediterranean topography and culture is a
chaotic present spread over a palimpsest many layers deep. No
region grappled more continuously with, nor was more deeply marked
by Mediterranean culture and history than Europe. Europe's
religions, its languages, its learning, its laws, its sense of
history, even its food and agriculture, all derived from Greek,
Roman, and-in the Middle Ages-Muslim and Jewish cultures. The
essays in this book lay bare the dynamics of cultural confrontation
between Europe and the Mediterranean world from medieval to modern
times. One momentous result of this engagement was the creation of
vernacular languages and the diverse body of literature, history,
and art arising from them. The achievements of the arts reveal-to
borrow a geological metaphor-the grinding tectonic pates of
Mediterranean cultures and languages butting up against
pre-existing European strata.
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