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Tropes of Transculturality: On Comparing Medieval Sicily and Castile

Tropes of Transculturality: On Comparing Medieval Sicily and Castile

Michael A. Conrad
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781799894384|ISBN10: 179989438X|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799894391|EISBN13: 9781799894407
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9438-4.ch001
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Conrad, Michael A. "Tropes of Transculturality: On Comparing Medieval Sicily and Castile." Cultural Encounters and Tolerance Through Analyses of Social and Artistic Evidences: From History to the Present, edited by Meltem Özkan Altınöz, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9438-4.ch001

APA

Conrad, M. A. (2022). Tropes of Transculturality: On Comparing Medieval Sicily and Castile. In M. Altınöz (Ed.), Cultural Encounters and Tolerance Through Analyses of Social and Artistic Evidences: From History to the Present (pp. 1-19). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9438-4.ch001

Chicago

Conrad, Michael A. "Tropes of Transculturality: On Comparing Medieval Sicily and Castile." In Cultural Encounters and Tolerance Through Analyses of Social and Artistic Evidences: From History to the Present, edited by Meltem Özkan Altınöz, 1-19. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9438-4.ch001

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Abstract

Inspired by central ideas of Mediterranean studies, the chapter attempts a comparative examination of typical motifs and patterns as identifiable in royal politics aspiring to organize the multiethnic societies of medieval Sicily and Castile. Far from being conceived as a conclusive study, the text is intended as a first meta-methodological exploration of the possibilities, strengths, and limitations of comparisons between separate Mediterranean cultures within the transcultural framework. At the same time, it gathers historic details under the rubrics of tropes found in historic narratives that are suggestive for comparisons between the situations in Sicily and Castile, in particular during the reigns of Roger II and Alfonso X, who both share astonishingly similar traits, including royal patronage, political pragmatism, the organization of multiculturality through legalism, and the legitimization of royal power based on historicistic myths.

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