Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. In Memoriam ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. A SEA OF LANGUAGES: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History
6. 1 Introduction: The Persistence of Philology: Language and Connectivity in the Mediterranean 3
7. Part One: Philology in the Mediterranean
8. 2 Beyond Philology: Cross-Cultural Engagement in Literary History and Beyond 25
9. 3 Linguistic Difference, the Philology of Romance, and the Romance of Philology 43
10. 4 Forging New Paradigms: Towards a History of Islamo-Christian Civilization 62
11. 5 Reflections on Muslim Hebraism: Codex Vindobonensis Palatinus and al-Biqa‘i 71
12. 6 “Mixing the East with the West”: Cosmopolitan Philology in Richard Burton’s Translations from Camões 82
13. 7 Reading Backward: The 1001 Nights and Philological Practice 100
14. Part Two: The Cosmopolitan Frontier: Andalusi Case Studies
15. 8 Andalusi “Exceptionalism” 119
16. 9 The Convivencia Wars: Decoding Historiography’s Polemic with Philology 135
17. 10 “In One of My Body’s Gardens”: Hearts in Transformation in Late Medieval Iberian Passion Devotions 162
18. 11 Arab Musical Influence on Medieval Europe: A Reassessment 182
19. 12 Sicilian Poets in Seville: Literary Affinities across Political Boundaries 199
20. 13 Vidal Benvenist’s Efer ve-Dinah between Hebrew and Romance 217
21. 14 The Shadow of Islam in Cervantes’s “El Licenciado Vidriera” 232
22. 15 “The Finest Flowering”: Poetry, History, and Medieval Spain in the Twenty-First Century 242
23. 16 Boustrophedon: Towards a Literary Theory of the Mediterranean 254
24. Bibliography 267
25. Contributors 307