Sicily and the Mediterranean

Norma Bouchard, University of Connecticut, USAGaetano Cipolla, St. John's University, USAPinella Di Gregorio, University of Catania, ItalyGeoffrey Hull, Macquarie University, New South WalesLina Insana, University of Pittsburgh, USAIolanda Lanzafame, University of Catania, ItalyGiovanna Palombo, University of California, Berkeley, USAMaria Sorbello, University of Catania, Italy

• Introduction; Claudia Karagoz and Giovanna Summerfield 1. Sicily and Greece; Gaetano Cipolla 2. The Normans of Sicily from 'the Other Side': The Medieval Arabic Sources; Giovanna Palombo 3. The Artistic Culture of Twelfth-Century Sicily, with a Focus on Palermo; William Tronzo 4. The Oldest Maltese Surnames: A Window on Sicily's Medieval History; Geoffrey Hull 5. Linguistic Contaminations in Sicily: From the Roman Rule to the Present; Iolanda Lanzafame 6. Sicily, terra ballerina: Shifting Terrain in a Contested Fascist-era Mediterranean; Lina Insana 7. Sicily: A Geopolitical Oil Rig in the Mediterranean Sea; Pinella Di Gregorio 8. Multiculturalism in the Mediterranean Basin: An Overview of Recent Immigration to Sicily; Maria Sorbello 9. Vincenzo Consolo's Mediterranean Journeys: From Sicily to the Global South(s); Norma Bouchard