Readings

Monday, October 5, 2009, 3:00-6:00 PM, Royce Hall 306

Professor Brian Catlos (History, UC Santa Cruz)
“Accursed, Superior Men: Power and Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean”

Seminar Leader: Teofilo Ruiz (History, UCLA)

• Brian Catlos, “To Catch a Spy: The Case of Zayn al-Din and Ibn Dukhan” (988 kb)
• Joshua C. Birk, “From Borderlands to Borderlines: Narrating the Past of Twelfth-Century Sicily” (1.8 MB)
• Bernard Lewis, “An Anti-Jewish Ode: The Qasida of Abu Ishaq Against Joseph ibn Nagrella” (832 kb)

Monday, October 12, 2009, 3:00-6:00 PM, Royce Hall 306

Professor Sharon Kinoshita (Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
“How To Do Things in the Medieval Mediterranean”

Seminar Leader: Zrinka Stahuljak (French & Francophone Studies, UCLA)

• Sharon Kinoshita, “Chrétien de Troyes' Cligés in the Medieval Mediterranean” (517 kb)
• Sharon Kinoshita, “Medieval Mediterranean Literature” (653 kb)
• Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron 10.9 (652 kb)

Monday, October 19, 2009, 3:00-6:00 PM, Royce Hall 306

Professor Oumelbanine Zhiri (Literature, UC San Diego)
“Archiving the Orient in Early Modern Europe”

Seminar Leaders: Christine Chism (English, UCLA) and Peter Stacey (History, UCLA)

• Jan Schmidt, “Between Author and Library Shelf: The Intriquing History of Some Middle Eastern Manuscripts Acquired by Public Collections in the Netherlands Before 1800” (2.66 MB)
• Nicholas Dew, “The Order of Oriental Knowledge: the Making of D'Herbelot's Bibliothèque Orientale” (653 kb)
• Peter N. Miller, “Peiresc, the Levant and the Mediterranean” (1.5 MB)

Monday, October 26, 2009, 3:00-6:00 PM, Royce Hall 306

Professor Jocelyne Dakhlia (Centre de Recherches Historiques, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
“Lingua Franca: Hybridity and Conflict in the Mediterranean”

Seminar Leader: Zrinka Stahuljak (French & Francophone Studies, UCLA)

• Mrs. Broughton, “Six Years Residence in Algiers” (171 kb)
• Henry & Renee Kahane, Andreas Tietze, “The Lingua Franca in the Levant” (4 MB)
• Salvatore Santoro, “Lingua Franca in Goldoni's Impresario delle Smirne” (235 kb)
• Hugo Schuchard, “The Lingua Franca” from Pidgin and the Creole Language by G.G. Gilbert (Cambridge, 1980) (1.5 MB)

Monday, November 2, 2009, 3:00-6:00 PM, Royce Hall 306

Professor Christine Chism (English, UCLA)
“Cross-Currents: Ibn Battuta, Ibn Jubayr and the Muslim Mediterranean”

Seminar Leaders: Eric Jager (English, UCLA) and James Schultz (Germanic Languages, UCLA)

• Roxane L. Euben, “Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge” (171 kb)
• H.A.R. Gibb, “The Travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354” (1.3 MB)
• R.J.C. Broadhurst, “The Travels of Ibn Jubayr” (975 kb)

Monday, November 9, 2009, 3:00-6:00 PM, Royce Hall 306

Professor Adnan Husain (History, Queen’s University, Toronto)
“The Question of Islam and Muslims in Europe’s Mediterranean”

Seminar Leaders: Gabriel Piterberg (History, UCLA) and Teofilo Ruiz (History, UCLA)

• Adnan A. Husain, “Introduction” from A Faithful Sea: The Religious Cultures of the Mediterranean, 1200-1700 (1.2 MB)
• Ariel Salzmann, “The Moral Economies of the Pre-Modern Mediterranean” from Living in the Ottoman Ecumenical Community: Essays in Honour of Suraiya Faroqhi, Vera Costantini and Markus Koller, eds. (1.2 MB)

Further Background:

• Henri Pirenne, "The Expansion of Islam in the Mediterranean Basin," in Mohammed and Charlemagne, tr. Miall, pp. 147-85. (3.6 MB)
• Fernand Braudel, "The Sahara, the Second Face of the Mediterranean", The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume 1; tr. S. Reynolds, pp. 171-88 (3.3 MB)
• Fernand Braudel, "Civilizations: 1. Mobility and Stability of Civilizations 2. Overlapping Civilizations," The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume 2; tr. S. Reynolds,pp. 757-801. (9.6 MB)

Monday, November 16, 2009, 3:00-6:00 PM, Royce Hall 306

Professor Teresa Shawcross (Schulman Research Fellow in History, Trinity Hall, Cambridge University)
“Identities in Transition: Historical Writing and Regime Change in the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean”

Seminar Leader: Claudia Rapp (History, UCLA)

• T. Shawcross, The Chronicle of Morea: Historiography in Crusader Greece (Oxford, 2009) [Introduction, pp. 1-28 and Chapter 10, The Rise of Vernacular Greek Historiography in the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean, pp.220-237] (350 kb)

Supplementary:

• T. Shawcross, ‘Re-inventing the Homeland in the Historiography of Frankish Greece: The Fourth Crusade and the Legend of the Trojan War’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 27 (2003) 120-152 (7.5 MB)

Monday, November 23, 2009, 3:00-6:00 PM, Royce Hall 306

Professor Alexander Metcalfe (History, Lancaster University)
“The Language(s) of Power in Medieval Sicily”

Seminar Leaders: Christine Chism (English, UCLA) and Peter Stacey (History, UCLA)

• Alexander Metcalfe, “The art of leisure” (288 kb)
• Alexander Metcalfe, “The science of power” (581 kb)
• Alexander Metcalfe, “The Muslims of Italy Under Christian Rule” (319 kb)

The complete seminar program for Part II Winter 2009 can be downloaded and printed from the PDF file (1.4 MB).

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