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Identity in the Medieval Western Mediterranean: Timothy Smit, Kevin Mummey, & Matt Desing, Apr. 2011

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Session 3: Identities in the Medieval Western Mediterranean. Introduction by Carla Rahn Phillips, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, followed by three presentations. Timothy Smit, University of Oregon, Mediterranean Connections: Merchants and Identity in Medieval Sicily. Kevin Mummey, University of Minnesota, Enchained in Paradise: Slave Identity in Majorca. Matt Desing, University of Texas, El Paso, Shifting Perceptions of the Mediterranean and Clerical Identities: The Case of the Libro de Apolonio (13th C. Castile). Part of the conference Identity in the Mediterranean World: From the Middle Ages to Today, organized by the Mediterranean Collaborative. During 2010-11, the Collaborative focused on constructions of identities in the Mediterranean world from the Middle Ages to the present. By identities we refer both to self-defined cultural identities and identities imposed by others; in each case, more than just ethnicity or race is involved, but also law, class, politics, religion, language, and culture. Although some scholars have questioned the viability of the Mediterranean as a concept, we suggest that its experience as a major site of long term and ongoing cross-cultural encounter makes it more important than ever to explore the dynamics of the region over a long chronology. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary approaches, we plan to lay the basis for an interdisciplinary understanding of interactions in the Mediterranean world over time and in diverse geographies. Our project focused, in particular, on the linguistic, spatial-occupational, and religious dimensions of diversity that underlie identities. This project's aims are to use diachronic comparisons, specific...
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Desing, Matt; Mummey, Kevin; Phillips, Carla Rahn; Smit, Timothy
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