Minoan frescoes stand out in the Bronze Age due to their depictions of nature and sea life. These frescoes when set against other paintings from different regions (i.e. the Near East and Egypt) during the Bronze Age stand out as distinct. Yet the frescoes from the Cycladic islan…
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This dissertation analyzes everyday practices of externalization of African migration control beyond and within Europe's geopolitical limits, in sites such as detention centers in Libya, but also in Rome; in dinghies adrift at sea among herds of sophisticated military vessels, b…
The works of Latin ecclesiastical architecture of the 13th and 14th centuries at the periphery of Gothic geography in the eastern Mediterranean have been thought to be provincial. The party line is that the Gothic system developed in France, and shortly thereafter appeared in En…
The main objective of this dissertation is to analyze the cooperation potential and institutional feasibility of a regional integration scheme in the Mediterranean region that would follow a similar pattern as the one proposed by the Schuman Declaration on May 9th 1950, establis…
This dissertation presents a synthesis of settlement patterns in the central coastal plain of modern Israel from the onset of the Middle Bronze Age to the end of the Iron Age (ca. 2000-539 B.C.E.). The ancient mound of Jaffa, situated on the southern Levantine coast south of the…
Catholic regimes in post-Tridentine Italy were expected to enforce religious orthodoxy domestically while supporting ideological and military Crusade abroad. However, the demands of spiritual stewardship often conflicted with the mercantilist interests of the state. Combining me…
This dissertation reintegrates the Mediterranean into the history of the development of the early modern British Empire. During the seventeenth century, the Mediterranean emerged as a distinct political, legal and commercial space within the wider currents of English expansion. …
This study analyzes U.S. relations with the Barbary States from 1784 to 1805. After the American Revolution, the young nation found its commerce menaced in the Mediterranean by North African pirates sponsored by the rulers of Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli. As the U.S. sou…
This research takes a single class of object, stone vessels, and uses them to look at issues of value and valuation in an archaeological context over a long time period and a large area. Construed broadly, studying value tackles how and why objects are perceived as more or less …
This study uses the lens of forest administration to examine the transformation of Mediterranean pastoralism over the course of the nineteenth century. Drawing extensively on archival research, it focuses on case studies in Provence, southwestern Anatolia, and northern Algeria. …
The scope of this dissertation is to examine the representations of Egypt in modern Italian literature. By closely analyzing Egyptian, Italian and French texts related to the colonial moment and the Italian intellectual environment during fascism I revise current views of coloni…
The objective of this dissertation is to understand why young Sicilian musicians since the late 1980s have created a contemporary popular music genre that can be generalized as Sicilian World-Music. The basic hypothesis is that new musical genres and styles, including those exam…
This dissertation is an examination of the branch as a messianic motif in the Old Testament. Chapter 1 defines the existence of three major views among biblical scholars: (1) the literal, (2) historical, and (3) traditional-figurative views. With each interpretation scholars ass…
The Ensemble of Port Development Factors in the Mediterranean Region: 1815–1999 is the title of this thesis which seeks to describe and explain port development in a specific geographic context. Spanning a period of nearly two centuries, this seaport study emphasizes spatial tra…
Mediterranean Resins in New Kingdom Egypt: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Trade and Usage Margaret Teresa Serpico Resins were widely used in ancient Egypt for a variety of purposes, including as incense, as varnish, in cosmetic and ritual preparations and in mummification. Howe…
Negotiating Identity: Greek Emporia in the Archaic and Classical Mediterranean, uses literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources to explore identity construction and preservation in diverse communities of traders, from the seventh to the fourth centuries BCE. Emporia were c…
Located in the center of the Mediterranean, with access to both northern and southern shores of the sea as well as routes between east and west, Sicily appears to be an obvious candidate for the position of hub within medieval Mediterranean shipping and travel patterns. As a hub…
The dissertation focuses on a small community of Armenian silk merchants from New Julfa, Isfahan who had established a global network of commercial settlements, spanning from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. It examines many issues, including the impact of long dista…
The well-preserved remains of settlements in the rural countryside of southeastern Isauria provide evidence for the prosperity and intensive exploitation of marginal lands during late antiquity. The territory studied in this thesis lies in the hinterland of Seleucia ad Calycadnu…