Mediterràneos: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Cultures of the Mediterranean Sea

Throughout history, different cultural traditions, all of them with considerable linguistic diversity, have flourished and converged in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. The International Conference of Junior Researchers in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures provided a transverse and interdisciplinary framework of discussion and reflection on the intellectual and cultural production of the Mediterranean and the Near East, from its earliest stages to the present. This book is the result of the analysis of the different political, religious and social trends of thought, material culture, and artistic, literary and linguistic expressions brought together in this geographical area, highlighting the scope of this blend of traditions within different space-time surroundings.
About the Author: Sergio Carro Martin completed his studies in Arabic philology at the Universidad de Salamanca in 2007. He has worked in the research group Manuscript Heritage and History of Texts (CSIC) and, since 2011, he has been a member of the DVCTVS Project, and Death on the Nile: MLD. Arturo Echavarren, a post-doctoral researcher at CSIC since 2010, holds a BA in Spanish Philology (1998) and Classics (2000), and a PhD in Classics (2005). He has worked at the Universidad de Navarra, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja. Esther Fernandez Medina is a PhD candidate at CSIC. Her research deals with the magical practices of Moriscos and old Christians in Early Modern Spain. Her dissertation is being carried out within the research group East in West, which includes Bizantinistic, Hebrew and Arabic studies. Daniel Riano Rufilanchas wrote his dissertation on the Case System of Ancient Greek, worked at the Diccionario Griego-Espanol, and has published on Greek syntax, literature, epigraphy, textual criticism, and computational linguistics. He currently works at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in the syntax and style of Philodemus. Katja emid received a BA in Spanish and Comparative Literature (2002) and a PhD in Linguistics (2010) from the University of Ljubljana and an MA in Spanish Philology (2005) from the CSIC. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in Judeo-Spanish studies at CSIC. Jesus Tellez Rubio completed his degree in Arabic Studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2001. His MPhil dissertation topic was on Andalusi calligraphy. Since 2009, he has been a member of the European Research Council project Knowledge, Heresy and Political Culture in the Islamic West. David Torollo Sanchez completed his education in History (2006), Hebrew Studies (2009) and Arabic Studies (2010) at the Universidad de Salamanca. He is currently a PhD candidate in the field of Medieval Hebrew Literature, focusing on the Hebrew ethical tradition in the 13th century.