Ships, Saints and Sealore

Contents

Foreword ;
Introduction: A seaman’s view of the Mediterranean (Seán McGrail) ;

I. Maritime Rituals, Superstitions and Ship Images ;
Maritime activity and the Divine – an overview of religious expression by Mediterranean seafarers, fishermen and travellers (Timmy Gambin) ;
Hazards at sea: a case-study of two ex-voto paintings from the Church of the Karmelitani Skalzi in Bormla, Malta (Simon Mercieca) ;

II. Confraternities in Maritime Culture ;
The Holy Vessel: the Vascelluzzo of Messina during the early modern period (Carmelina Gugliuzzo) ;
Two maritime related confraternities established at Bormla (Cospicua) parish church, Malta (Emanuel Magro Conti) ;

III. Maritime Heritage: Historical Narratives ;
Quatri partitu en cosmographia pratica i por otro nombre llamado Espejo de navegantes by Alonso de Chaves: a navigation manual for the instruction of Spanish pilots in the sixteenth century (Maravillas Aguiar) ;
Images of pirates and slaves in traditional Greek popular songs (Efsevia Lasithiotaki) ;

IV. Ethnography, Tourism and Maritime Heritage ;
Sun, sand and sea: tourism and the commodification of Malta’s maritime heritage (Jeremy Boissevain) ;
Work, tourism and the sea: Bulgarian experiences in Malta (Irina Atanasova) ;
Lateen sails versus fibreglass boats: the contradictions of a maritime heritage process – the Platja dels Pescadors on the Catalonian coast (Eliseu Carbonell) ;
The Maritime Museum of Barcelona’s approach to maritime ethnology: research and communications (Enric Garcia Domingo) ;

V. Maritime Archaeology: Traditions and Practices ;
Sailing the Red Sea: ships, infrastructure, seafarers and society (Cheryl Ward) ;
The dgħajsa: a Phoenician survival (Alec Tilley) ;
Maritime ethnography and archaeology (Seán McGrail) ;
The maritime heritage of Yemen: a focus on traditional wooden ‘dhows’ (Dionisius A. Agius, John P. Cooper and Chiara Zazzaro) ;
The hūrī of Socotra: cultural treasure or coastal trash? (Julian Jansen van Rensburg) ;

Index