Chapters by Hilary Haakenson
Bodies and Maps, 2021
On the northern edge of the Piazza dei Miracoli [Fig. 7.1], the Camposanto cemetery sits between ... more On the northern edge of the Piazza dei Miracoli [Fig. 7.1], the Camposanto cemetery sits between the Cathedral of Pisa and the city's antique walls. Quattrocento sources, including Felix Fabri, claim that this miraculous medieval cemetery, legendarily composed of holy earth from Jerusalem, consumed cadavers in one to three days, leaving only bone or dust in their corporeal wake and speeding the journey of their souls to salvation.1 'Whomever is interred 1 Fabri Felix, Wanderings of Felix Fabri (circa 1480-1483 A.D.), trans. A. Stewart, 2 vols. (London: 1892-93) i, Part ii (1896) 537. One-, three-, or nine-day increments are recorded in various texts. The earliest source dates to the Trecento. See Sardo Ranieri, Cronaca di Pisa, ed. Ottavio Banti (Rome: 1963) 37. The legend is also recounted by Giovan-Battista Totti (1593), Michel de Montaigne (1581), Raffaelo Roncioni (c.1606). For an analysis of the legend see:
Valorizing Venice: Art and the Production of an Early Modern Mediterranean, 2019
in Mediterranean Mosaic. History and Art, ed. by E. Fonzo e H. A. Haakenson, ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge, Fisciano, 2019, pp. 1-5
Books by Hilary Haakenson
Repositioning the Great Sea at the Centre of the World: an International Collaboration
Erminio F... more Repositioning the Great Sea at the Centre of the World: an International Collaboration
Erminio Fonzo & Hilary A. Haakenson
The Emperors, the Caliph(s) and the Doctor: Cross-cultural Encounters and Interactions on the “Periphery” of Byzantium (ca. 650-950)
Luca Zavagno & Zeynep Olgun
Conflicts, Equilibria, Hegemonies: the Case for Catalan-Aragonese Expansion as a Starting Point in Late Medieval Mediterranean Studies Based on a Survey of Recent Scholarship
Pietro Corrao
Accommodating Foreign Merchants in a Changing Mediterranean: the Case of Galata
Ekin Can Göksoy
Valorizing Venice: Art and the Production of an Early Modern Mediterranean
Hilary A. Haakenson
The Mediterranean Origins of Jewish Music: Tradition, Cultural Assimilation and Religious Identity
Irena Avsenik Nabergoj
Arab Artists of the Mediterranean World: the Early History of Art Education for Artists from Syria, Lebanon, and Algeria in the USSR in the 1950s, 60s and 70s
Olga Nefedova
Missions in the Eastern Mediterranean: the Ambassadors of the Angevins of Naples
Maria Rosaria Salerno
Diplomatic Relations and Trade between the Kingdom of Naples and the United States in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century
Maria Sirago
The American Mediterranean in the Age of Thomas Jefferson
Anthony J. Antonucci
Social, Economic and Cultural Relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States in the Kingdom of Naples under the Hapsburgs and the Bourbons, 1707 -1815
Franca Pirolo
Chilean Refugees in Italy: a Forgotten Story
Erminio Fonzo
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Chapters by Hilary Haakenson
Books by Hilary Haakenson
Erminio Fonzo & Hilary A. Haakenson
The Emperors, the Caliph(s) and the Doctor: Cross-cultural Encounters and Interactions on the “Periphery” of Byzantium (ca. 650-950)
Luca Zavagno & Zeynep Olgun
Conflicts, Equilibria, Hegemonies: the Case for Catalan-Aragonese Expansion as a Starting Point in Late Medieval Mediterranean Studies Based on a Survey of Recent Scholarship
Pietro Corrao
Accommodating Foreign Merchants in a Changing Mediterranean: the Case of Galata
Ekin Can Göksoy
Valorizing Venice: Art and the Production of an Early Modern Mediterranean
Hilary A. Haakenson
The Mediterranean Origins of Jewish Music: Tradition, Cultural Assimilation and Religious Identity
Irena Avsenik Nabergoj
Arab Artists of the Mediterranean World: the Early History of Art Education for Artists from Syria, Lebanon, and Algeria in the USSR in the 1950s, 60s and 70s
Olga Nefedova
Missions in the Eastern Mediterranean: the Ambassadors of the Angevins of Naples
Maria Rosaria Salerno
Diplomatic Relations and Trade between the Kingdom of Naples and the United States in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century
Maria Sirago
The American Mediterranean in the Age of Thomas Jefferson
Anthony J. Antonucci
Social, Economic and Cultural Relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States in the Kingdom of Naples under the Hapsburgs and the Bourbons, 1707 -1815
Franca Pirolo
Chilean Refugees in Italy: a Forgotten Story
Erminio Fonzo
Papers by Hilary Haakenson
Erminio Fonzo & Hilary A. Haakenson
The Emperors, the Caliph(s) and the Doctor: Cross-cultural Encounters and Interactions on the “Periphery” of Byzantium (ca. 650-950)
Luca Zavagno & Zeynep Olgun
Conflicts, Equilibria, Hegemonies: the Case for Catalan-Aragonese Expansion as a Starting Point in Late Medieval Mediterranean Studies Based on a Survey of Recent Scholarship
Pietro Corrao
Accommodating Foreign Merchants in a Changing Mediterranean: the Case of Galata
Ekin Can Göksoy
Valorizing Venice: Art and the Production of an Early Modern Mediterranean
Hilary A. Haakenson
The Mediterranean Origins of Jewish Music: Tradition, Cultural Assimilation and Religious Identity
Irena Avsenik Nabergoj
Arab Artists of the Mediterranean World: the Early History of Art Education for Artists from Syria, Lebanon, and Algeria in the USSR in the 1950s, 60s and 70s
Olga Nefedova
Missions in the Eastern Mediterranean: the Ambassadors of the Angevins of Naples
Maria Rosaria Salerno
Diplomatic Relations and Trade between the Kingdom of Naples and the United States in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century
Maria Sirago
The American Mediterranean in the Age of Thomas Jefferson
Anthony J. Antonucci
Social, Economic and Cultural Relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States in the Kingdom of Naples under the Hapsburgs and the Bourbons, 1707 -1815
Franca Pirolo
Chilean Refugees in Italy: a Forgotten Story
Erminio Fonzo