MS A Journal of Scholarship on the Mediterranean Region and Its Influence vol. 22, no. 1, 2014 the pennsylvania state universit y press
Editor Susan O. Shapiro, Utah State University Editorial Board Luigi Andrea Berto, Western Michigan University Eric Dursteler, Brigham Young University Claudia Esposito, University of Massachusetts, Boston Angel Felices-Lago, University of Granada William Hutton, The College of William & Mary Caroline Jewers, University of Kansas Darryl Phillips, College of Charleston Susan L. Rosenstreich, Dowling College Geraldo de Sousa, University of Kansas Vaios Vaiopoulos, Ionian University, Greece John Watkins, University of Minnesota Patricia Zupan, Middlebury College
MS Mediterranean Studies A Journal of Scholarship on the Mediterranean Region and Its Influence 2014 vol. 22 no. 1 History Luigi Andrea Berto / The Image of the Byzantines in Early Medieval South Italy: The Viewpoint of the Chroniclers of the Lombards (9th - 10th centuries) and Normans (11 th century) 1 Economic History Nuno Ornelas Martins / Adam Smith on Power and Maritime Trade 38 Art History Jennifer Roberson / The Changing Face of Morocco under King Hassan II 57 mediterranean forum John Watkins / The New Mediterranean Studies: An Institutional and Intellectual Challenge 88 Contributors 93
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Contributors Luigi Andrea Berto is associate professor of history at Western Michigan University. His research focuses on medieval Venice and early medieval Italy. His books include The Political and Social Vocabulary of John the Deacon s Istoria Veneticorum (2013); the edition and translation of Giovanni Diacono s Istoria Veneticorum (1999); and the editions and translations of Testi storici veneziani (1999), Testi storici e poetici dell Italia carolingia (2002), and Cronicae Sancti Benedicti Casinensis (2006). His recent articles include Linguaggio, contenuto, autori e destinatari nella Langobardia meridionale. Il caso della cosiddetta dedica della Historia Langobardorum Beneventanorum di Erchemperto in Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 43 (2012): 1 14; Erchempert, a Reluctant Fustigator of His People: History and Ethnic Pride in Southern Italy at the End of the Ninth Century in Mediterranean Studies 20 (2012): 147 75; and The Muslims as Others in the Chronicles of Early Medieval Southern Italy in Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies (forthcoming). Nuno Ornelas Martins is assistant professor of economics at the University of the Azores, specializing in the history of economic thought. He completed a PhD in economics at the University of Cambridge, UK. His book, The Cambridge Revival of Political Economy, was recently published by Routledge. He has published articles in academic journals such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Review of Political Economy, New Political Economy, Ecological Economics, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Economic Thought, Review of Social Economy, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Journal of Economic Methodology, Evolutionary and Institutional E conomics Review, Journal of Critical Realism, and Review of Economic Philosophy, among others. He is a member of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group and of the Centro de Estudos em Gestão e Economia. Jennifer Roberson is assistant professor of art history at Sonoma State University. Her research interests include mosque architecture in twentieth-century Spain (in the Franco and post-franco eras) as well as the shifting attitudes toward Islam and Mediterranean Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2014 Copyright 2014 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
94 Contributors the Islamic community there, and developments in Moroccan mosque architecture from the colonial era through independence. Her article Visions of al-andalus in Twentieth-Century Spanish Mosque Architecture was published in Revisiting al-andalus: Perspectives on the Material Culture of Islamic Iberia and Beyond, edited by Glaire D. Anderson and Mariam Rosser-Owen (Brill, 2007). John Watkins is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, where he holds affiliate appointments in history, medieval studies, and Italian studies. With Kathryn Reyerson and Patricia Lorcin, he co-convenes the Research Collaborative on the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North Africa within the Minnesota Institute of Global Studies. He has written several books and numerous articles dealing with problems of historiography, cultural and diplomatic exchanges between England and the Mediterranean, and the classical and medieval underpinnings of early modernity. With Kathryn Reyerson, he is the co-editor of Mediterranean Identities in the Premodern Era: Islands, Entrepôts, Empires (Ashgate, 2014).