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Spectral Sea: Mediterranean Palimpsests in European Culture

Spectral Sea: Mediterranean Palimpsests in European Culture

Nichols, Stephen G.
Nichols, Stephen G.
Küpper, Joachim

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Series: Medieval Interventions, Book 8

Greek (Modern)ItalianLatin

ISBN10: 1433143224
ISBN13: 9781433143229
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Dec 30 2017
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

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.

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