A group created to share interdisciplinary research on the Mediterranean area during the Middle Ages
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Foteini Spingou deposited Classicizing Visions of Constantinople after 1204: Niketas Choniates’ De Signis in the group
Medieval Mediterranean on Humanities Commons 2 months agoThe article focuses on one of the most famous accounts of the events of 1204: the De Signis by Niketas Choniates. It demonstrates how Choniates constructed a (semi)fictional account of the assaults against the Byzantine culture and identity through a constellation of symbols and passages drawn from the Greek Classics. The article comprises three…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited The Moon Card of the Tarot Deck May Reprise an Ancient Amuletic Design Against the Evil Eye in the group
Medieval Mediterranean on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoThis paper proposes a novel source for – or at least influence on – the iconography of the Moon trump in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, which preserves the design from the Tarot de Marseille. In fact, the Moon template appears to date back to the earliest days of the Tarot. The proposed source or prototype is a Greco-Roman talismanic design aga…[Read more]
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Kordula Wolf deposited Hindered Passages. The Failed Muslim Conquest Of Southern Italy in the group
Medieval Mediterranean on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThe establishment of an Aghlabid, then Fāṭimid-Kalbid dominion in Sicily had a deep impact not only on the island and on Mediterranean power constellations, but also on mainland Italy, especially in its Southern parts. Although the Peninsula was under continuous attack between the ninth and eleventh centuries, all attempts to place it under su…[Read more]
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Kordula Wolf created the group
Medieval Mediterranean on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
