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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.
Contents
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