Dark Networks

2020 ◽  
pp. 194-242
Author(s):  
Jane Gilbert ◽  
Simon Gaunt ◽  
William Burgwinkle
Keyword(s):  
Bodleian Library ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Cultural Networks ◽  
British Culture ◽  
Dark Networks

This chapter pursues the theme of travel, focusing on how both the representation and, crucially, the non-representation of movements, travels, and networks become key to the retooling of some texts in transmission. In the first section of this chapter, we show how the prose Tristan is made to travel, indeed is relocated to the Mediterranean, through a prologue and lengthy prequel; the whole of British culture is thereby glossed as a dislocation of, and exile from, the holy East. The second section takes a well-known and much-studied manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264, and follows a textual (non-)thread via the Paon (Peacock) cycle of Alexander texts, to trace the career of a poet, Jean de le Mote, whose career exemplifies cultural networks that today are often overlooked.

The Cult of Beauty

2018 ◽  
pp. 192-224
Author(s):  
Robert Holland
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
Grand Tour ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
British Culture

This chapter details British engagement with the Mediterranean from 1890 to 1918. It has been argued that cultural despair was the distinguishing mark of modernism in the British compared to their European and North American counterparts, where a generally upbeat tone was more evident. Since the age of the Grand Tour, a pathology deeply marked by Mediterranean influences had characterized British culture. Thus, it was only logical that this remained true entering the twentieth century, and that despair and a sense of national fragility remained part of the mix. That hallmark characteristic had various roots, but critical to it was a continuing apprehension that the British remained unique as a leading European power in lacking an authentic, mature civilization of their own.

Conclusion

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Dueck
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
French Mandate ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Cultural Networks

The last decade of French Mandate rule in Syria and Lebanon bears witness to the prominence of culture in a politically contested region. Flanking the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, these two states proved a crucible of international strategic interests, attracting French, Anglo–Saxon, Italian, and German notice. The participants in the cultural networks that operated in Syria and Lebanon belonged to many different nations. They shared the conviction that cultural institutions could serve a variety of political ends by shaping people's language, values, and identity. Despite what often amounted to a dearth of measurable political results, the confidence in culture as a sphere of political action perpetuated itself with remarkable momentum. Once culture became an accepted means with which to fight one's political rivals, no established or ascendant authority could afford to ignore it.

Fourteenth-Century Portolan Charts. Challenges to our Understanding of Cross-Cultural Relationships in the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions and of (Knowledge?) Practices of Chart-Makers

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Brentjes
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Verbal Representation ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
Compound Images ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Cultural Networks

AbstractThis article studies five well-known portolan charts of the fourteenth century, produced at Genoa, Ciutat de Majorca and Venice, with regard to the knowledge their makers used for visualizing physical and human geography in Eastern Europe, Northern Africa and Iraq. It studies four so-called compound images to understand the cultural background of the chosen pictorial and verbal representation instead of analyzing single geographical objects. The results of the analysis strongly suggest that the portolan chart-makers had access to visual material from several cultures around the Mediterranean and Western Asia and that they cooperated creatively with (unknown) members of larger social, economic and cultural networks.

115 Heart failure mortality due to ischemic etiology: is it the same in the Mediterranean lifestyle?

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-29
Author(s):  
M JIMENEZNAVARRO ◽  
J GOMEZDOBLAS ◽  
G GOMEZHERNANDEZ ◽  
A DOMINGUEZFRANCO ◽  
J GARCIAPINILLA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
The Mediterranean
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