Chapter 4. The Ramparts of Europe: The Invention of the Maltese Language

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Chapter 1. Scheherazade among the Philologists (Paris, 1704) 1
4. Chapter 2. Metempsychosis: Dante, Petrarch, and the Arab Middle Ages 34
5. Chapter 3. I nostri Saracini: Writing the History of the Arabs of Sicily 65
6. Chapter 4. The Ramparts of Europe: The Invention of the Maltese Language 100
7. Chapter 5. The Life and Times of Enrico Cerulli 132
8. Chapter 6. Amalgams: Emilio García Gómez (s. xx), Alvarus (s. ix), and Philology after the Nation 162
9. Chapter 7. Scheherazade at Home (Baghdad, a.d. 803; London and Hollywood, 1939) 198
10. Notes 235
11. Bibliography 281
12. Index 305
13. Acknowledgments 311