6 peregrine horden
Endnotes
1 The event can be viewed on YouTube starting at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHBfx-
DgtBzc (accessed July 13, 2013). I owe my knowledge of it, however, to a forthcoming
paper by Naor Ben-Yehoyada (who interviewed the bishop), a paper that he has
generously allowed me to draw on and cite here.
2 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/08/nato-ship-libyan-migrants (accessed July 13,
2013).
3 http://www.ufmsecretariat.org/history/ (accessed July 13, 2013).
4 For Israel see Herzfeld, Astren, this volume.
5 Celebrating mass on Lampedusa, many illegal migrants’ destination, rather than at sea,
would have required the permission of the bishop of Agrigento.
6 Compare Goitein (1966) on Tunisia as the “hub” of the Mediterranean.
7 Compare Goskar, this volume, on Josiah Wedgwood and his factory named Etruria.
8 For a limited and highly qualified retraction see Ben-Yehoyada (2013: 79): “I [Herzfeld]
also feel that, having battered my head for forty years against the notion of the
Mediterranean, a little gracious retreat does not do any harm ...” But do not expect too
much retreat, thank goodness: see further the chapter on post-modernity below.
9 See Goskar and Herzfeld, this volume.
10 For contrasting statements see Abulafia (2005) and Horden and Purcell (2006).
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