mediterranean literature 327
10 In comparison with Hellenistic romances like Callirhoe or Apollonius, where mainland ports
predominate, islands—“places of strikingly enhanced exposure to interactions [that] are
central to history of the Mediterranean” (Horden and Purcell, 2000: 76)—play a major role.
11 Iberia in the second half of the twelfth century was also home to Benjamin of Tudela (whose
Sefer ha-massacot or Book of Travels recounts his maritime journey to Iraq, c. 1169–1173)
and Ibn Jubayr (whose account of his pilgrimage to Mecca, 1183–1185, largely aboard
Christian-owned ships, includes his famous description of Norman Sicily under its
Arabophile king, William the Good). Space considerations prevent us from taking up the
narratives of these and other travellers, from Egidia to Symonis Semeonis to Evliya Çelebi,
who recorded their impressions of Mediterranean sites.
12 On Albert Camus’s more problematic representation of the Mediterranean, see Mallette
(2013: 265).
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