Table of Contents
In MemoriamAcknowledgments
1 Introduction: The Persistence of Philology: Language and Connectivity in the MediterraneanSUZANNE CONKLIN AKBARI
Part One: Philology in the Mediterranean
2 Beyond Philology: Cross-Cultural Engagement in Literary History and BeyondSHARON KINOSHITA
3 Linguistic Difference, the Philology of Romance, and the Romance of PhilologySIMON GAUNT
4 Forging New Paradigms: Towards a History of Islamo-Christian CivilizationJOHN TOLAN
5 Reflections on Muslim Hebraism: Codex Vindobonensis Palatinus and al-Biqa‘i WALID A. SALEH
6 “Mixing the East with the West”: Cosmopolitan Philology in Richard Burton’s Translations from CamõesPAULO LEMOS HORTA
7 Reading Backward: The 1001 Nights and Philological PracticeKARLA MALLETTE
Part Two: The Cosmopolitan Frontier: Andalusi Case Studies
8 Andalusi “Exceptionalism”ROSS BRANN
9 The Convivencia Wars: Decoding Historiography’s Polemic with PhilologyRYAN SZPIECH
10 “In One of My Body’s Gardens”: Hearts in Transformation in Late Medieval Iberian Passion DevotionsCYNTHIA ROBINSON
11 Arab Musical Influence on Medieval Europe: A ReassessmentDWIGHT REYNOLDS
12 Sicilian Poets in Seville: Literary Affinities across Political BoundariesWILLIAM GRANARA
13 Vidal Benvenist’s Efer ve-Dinah between Hebrew and RomanceDAVID A. WACKS
14 The Shadow of Islam in Cervantes’s “El Licenciado Vidriera”LEYLA ROUHI
15 “The Finest Flowering”: Poetry, History, and Medieval Spain in the Twenty-First CenturyMARÍA ROSA MENOCAL
16 Boustrophedon: Towards a Literary Theory of the MediterraneanKARLA MALLETTE
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