Ships, saints and sealore : : cultural heritage and ethnography of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea / / edited by Dionisius A. Agius, Timmy Gambin and Athena Trakadas ; with assistance from Harriet Nash.

• TeilnehmendeR: Agius, Dionisius A.,; Gambin, T.; Trakadas, Athena,; Nash, H.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress Archaeology,, [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 170 pages) :; illustrations, maps

A selection of conference papers and other contributions see the coming-together of scholars and researchers from backgrounds as diverse as archaeology, history, ethnography, maritime and heritage studies, to offer an engaging and insightful study of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea and its influen...

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Foreword
• A seaman's view of the Mediterranean
• Seán McGrail
• Maritime activity and the Divine - an overview of religious expression by Mediterranean seafarers, fishermen and travellers
• Timmy Gambin
• Hazards at sea: a case-study of two ex-voto paintings from the Church of the Karmelitani Skalzi in Bormla, Malta
• Simon Mercieca
• The Holy Vessel: the Vascelluzzo of Messina during the early modern period
• Carmelina Gugliuzzo
• Two maritime related confraternities established at Bormla (Cospicua) parish church, Malta
• Emanuel Magro Conti
• Quatri partitu en cosmographia pratica i por otro nombre llamado Espejo de navegantes by Alonso de Chaves: a navigation manual for the instruction of Spanish pilots in the sixteenth century
• Maravillas Aguiar
• Images of pirates and slaves in traditional Greek popular songs
• Efsevia Lasithiotaki
• Sun, sand and sea: tourism and the commodification of Malta's maritime heritage
• Jeremy Boissevain
• Work, tourism and the sea: Bulgarian experiences in Malta
• Irina Atanasova
• Lateen sails versus fibreglass boats: the contradictions of a maritime heritage process - the Platja dels Pescadors on the Catalonian coast
• Eliseu Carbonell
• The Maritime Museum of Barcelona's approach to maritime ethnology: research and communications
• Enric Garcia Domingo
• Sailing the Red Sea: ships, infrastructure, seafarers and society
• Cheryl Ward
• The dgħajsa: a Phoenician survival
• Alec Tilley
• Maritime ethnography and archaeology
• Seán McGrail
• The maritime heritage of Yemen: a focus on traditional wooden "dhows"
• Dionisius A. Agius, John P. Cooper and Chiara Zazzaro
• The hūrī of Socotra: cultural treasure or coastal trash?
• Julian Jansen van Rensburg
• Index
• Back cover.
• A seaman's view of the Mediterranean
• Fig. 1: Visibility of land from a boat at sea level in the Mediterranean (A. Trakadas after X. Henkel, 'Die sichtbarkeit im Mittelmeergerbier', Petermann's Geographische Mittelungen, 1901: fig.1).
• Maritime activity and the Divine - an overview of religious expression by Mediterranean seafarers, fishermen and travellers
• Fig. 1: A Roman mosaic from Tunisia portraying Neptune (photo T. Gambin).
• Fig. 2: A louterion from the third century CE Site III in Filicudi, Sicily (photo T. Gambin).
• Fig. 3: Various stages of the maritime procession held annually in Cartagena, Spain (photos T. Gambin).
• Fig. 4: Early nineteenth-century sketch showing the archaeological remains that provide good indicators for vessels entering the harbour (after William Smyth 1823
• courtesy of the Wignacourt Museum, Rabat-Malta).
• Fig. 5: A typical Mediterranean ex-voto painting from a church in Malta
• Hazards at sea:
• Fig. 1: Il-Kunvent tal-Karmelitani Skalzi. The monastery which suffered extensive damage during the Second World War
• Fig. 2: The church today, lit up for the religious festivities of St. Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582), Doctor of the Church and co-founder of the Discalced Carmelites
• Fig. 3: The ex-voto brig-rigged steamer Posocchob. Saint Therese Church, Bormla
• Fig. 4: The ex-voto showing members of the crew of the pilot boat in peril
• The Holy Vessel: the Vascelluzzo of Messina
• Fig. 1: View of the Port of Messina from the Palazzo del Senato
• Fig. 2: The Vascelluzzo (photo by Giuseppe Martino, private collection).
• Fig. 3: Procession of the Vascelluzzo in front of the Church of Catalans
• Fig. 4: Madonna della Lettera
• Fig. 5: Ex-voto painting in the Church of the Sailors - the so-called Sacrarium, second half of the eighteenth century (artist unknown).*.
• Fig. 6: Procession of the Vascelluzzo promoted by the Confraternity of Sailors with their banner (photographer unknown).
• Fig. 7: The banner of the confraternity (photo by G. Conti-Giordano Corsi, in Conti-Giordano Corsi, 1980).
• Two maritime related confraternities established at Bormla (Cospicua) parish church, Malta
• Fig. 1: Seventeenth-century silver encased wooden statue of the Madonna Tal-Kunċizzjoni
• Fig. 2: Bormla's main church escapes destruction during the Second World War (photo collection of E. Magro Conti).
• Fig. 3: Some modern day Bormla barklori participating in the 8th of September 1565 Great Siege regatta (photo collection of E. Magro Conti).
• Fig. 4: A procession emanating from the main Bormla church showing some of the confraternities banners, crosses and lanterns in sequence of establishment. The very first banner is that of the Confraternity of Sant Andrija (St. Andrew)
• Fig. 5: View of the site of the disputed foreshore which eventually racked havoc of the lives of Bormla'a fisherman and also proved a death knell for their confraternity
• Fig. 6: Wooden carved processional statue of Sant Andrija (St. Andrew) which survives to this day unlike its masonry counterpart (photo E. Magro Conti).
• Fig. 7: St. Theresa's (Santa Tereża's) church interior
• Quatri partitu en cosmographia pratica i por otro nombre llamado Espejo de navegantes by Alonso de Chaves: a navigation manual for the instruction of Spanish pilots in the sixteenth century
• Fig. 1: Real provisión or Royal Mandate of the Catholic Monarchs ordered the Casa de Contratación (House of Trade) to be located in the city of Seville. 20th of January, 1503, Alcalá de Henares (Spain) (Archivo General de Indias, Patronato, 251, R.1.).*.
• Fig. 2: Portrait of Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512) in A. Montanus, De nieuwe en onbekende weereld of beschryving van America en't zuid-land ('The New and Unknown World or Description of America and the Southland') (Amsterdam: J. Meurs, 1671). The Reyes Cató
• Fig. 3: First page of Alonso de Chaves' manuscript Quatri partitu. Manuscript preserved in a single copy
• Fig. 4: Page from the index of Alonso de Chaves' manuscript, Quatri partitu (courtesy of the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid).
• Fig. 5: The wind rose in Alonso de Chaves' manuscript, Quatri partitu. The Arabs used a 32-point wind rose (courtesy of the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid).
• Fig. 6: The chapter on the astrolabe in Alonso de Chaves' manuscript Quatri partitu (courtesy of Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid).
• Fig. 7: The shadow quadrant in Alonso de Chaves' manuscript, Quatri partitu (courtesy of the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid).
• Fig. 8: The cross-staff in Alonso de Chaves' manuscript, Quatri partitu (courtesy of the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid).
• Fig. 9: Frontispiece of Johannes de Sacrobosco's Sphaera Mundi, Venice, 1490. Astronomy, placed in the middle, is flanked by Urania, the muse of astrology, and Ptolemy. Astronomy holds two instruments: an astrolabe and an armillary sphere. This is the ear
• Fig. 10: Waghenaer's Mariner's Mirror (1586), the first English Atlas
• Images of pirates and slaves in traditional Greek popular songs
• Fig. 1: The Bay of Gera, where Barbarossa grew up, Lesbos Island, Greece (photo E. Lasithiotaki).
• Fig. 2: Map of Crete, 1702-1773 (after Santorineu, 8-9).
• Fig. 3: Matthew, the Greek Patriarch of Alexandria (r. 1746-1767), who sent monks to assist to the Orthodox slaves in the prisons of Algiers and Tripoli.
• Fig. 4: A Muslim galley (courtesy of Joseph Muscat).
• Fig. 5: Contemporary view of Naxos port. This is the port where a man was abducted and taken to Libya, where as a slave he wrote the letter to his wife.
• Fig. 6: Byzantine plate with the depiction of Digenis Akritas fighting a snake, c. twelfth century (courtesy of The Museum of the Ancient Agora, Stoa of Attalos, Athens).
• Fig. 7: Miguel Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote. A portrait by his contemporary El-Greco
• Fig. 8: The castle of Lepanto, c. 1500 (Athens, Gennadios Library [Collective work 1972]).
• Fig. 9: A Christian slave (B)
• Sun, sand and sea: tourism and the commodification of Malta's maritime heritage
• Fig. 1: The Maltese Islands with some of the sites discussed here indicated (map A. Trakadas).
• Fig. 2: Unspoiled countryside on northwest Gozo island (photo A. Trakadas).
• Fig. 3: Mdina from fields below (photo A. Trakadas).
• Fig. 4: A view of holiday apartments and hotel developments in Marsalforn, Gozo (photo A. Trakadas).
• Fig. 5: The speculative apartment developments on Tigné Point in the foreground stare across the entrance to Marsamxett Harbour at Valletta with Manoel Island in the background.
• Work, tourism and the sea: Bulgarian experiences in Malta
• Fig. 1: Location of Bulgaria and Malta.
• Fig. 2: Location of Bulgarians employed in Malta (December 2008
• source: Google maps).
• Fig. 3: Gender distribution of Bulgarians employed in Malta (December 2008).
• Fig. 4: Occupation distribution of Bulgarians employed in Malta (December 2008).
• Lateen sails versus fibreglass boats: the contradictions of a maritime heritage process - the Platja dels Pescadors on the Catalonian coast
• Fig. 1: Fishermen's Beach in 1911 (photo Arxiu Històric Fidel Fita).
• Fig. 2: Fishermen's Beach in 2011 (photo E. Carbonell).
• Fig. 3: The last four trawlers operating in the Fishermen's Beach, 1980.
• Fig. 4: The last trawler burning on the beach, 1989 (photo private collection P. Sauleda).