Studies on Mediterranean Culture and History:

From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period

Edited by Steven M. Oberhelman

ISBN: 978-618-5065-28-7, 244 pages

First published in 2014 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

Studies on Mediterranean Culture and History: From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period: An Introduction Steven M. Oberhelman		i
Preface		xi
1.	The Historical Evolution of Biblical Satan and the External Factors That Led to His Metamorphosis Tina Wray	1
2.	Border Fury! The Muslim Campaigning Tactics in Asia Minor through the Writings of the Byzantine Military Treatise Περί παραδρομής του κυρού Νικηφόρου του βασιλέως Georgios Theotokis	13
3.	‘Her Husband Went Overseas’: The Legal and Social Status of Abandoned Jewish Women in Medieval Provence and Languedoc Nadezda Koryakina	25
4.	Organized Collective Violence in the Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Tuscan Countryside: Some Case Studies from Central and Northeast Tuscany Tommaso Casini	37
5.	The Deterioration of the Crafts Industry in Egypt during the Mamluk Period (1468–1517) Wan Kamal Mujani & Noor Inayah Yaakub	49
6.	Maxim Grec (Maksim Grek): The Preservation of (Canonical) Christian Tradition Neža Zajc	67
7.	‘Defending the Christian Faith with Our Blood’: The Battle of Lepanto (1571) and the Venetian Adriatic: Impact of a Global Conflict on the Mediterranean Periphery Klemen Pust	81
8.	Prince Michael the Brave in the History of the Romanians Gelu Călina	95
9.	Development and Transformation in Roman Church Façades of the Sixteenth Century Claudio Mazzanti	105
10.	Italian Influence in the Composition of Rubens’ Early Self-Portraits with Friends Mika Yamaguchi	115
11.	The Orientalist View of İzmir in the Seventeenth Century: An Investigation into the Manuscript of Antoine Galland Fatma Gürses	131
12.	From Hesiod to Manuel de Galhegos: The Theogony versus the Gigantomachy Manuel Ferro	141
13.	The Power of the Word in Early Modern Greek Medical Texts Steven M. Oberhelman	151
14.	Nineteenth-Century Cycladic Warriors: Celtic Heroes Kathleen Ann O’Donnell	167
15.	Hermes Iconography in Communications and Commerce: Semiotics of Cultural Networks Diane DeBlois & Robert Dalton Harris	177