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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Journal of Mediterranean Studies.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (1991) through current issueLatest Articles: Journal of Mediterranean StudiesTWOProject MUSE®Journal of Mediterranean Studies2523-94651016-3476Latest articles in Journal of Mediterranean Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®A Contribution to the Understanding of South-Eastern Adriatic Networks: Dubrovnik-Shkodra Interactions (1358-1396)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/960931
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This article seeks to contribute to the understanding of late medieval south-eastern Adriatic networks by examining the relations between the residents of Shkodra (Skadar, in Slav.) and Dubrovnik from the Zadar Peace of 1358 until Shkodra's inclusion into the Venetian Republic in 1396. The research is based on the analysis of unpublished documents from the State Archive in Dubrovnik (ser. 10 Testamenta Notariae and ser. 35 Diversa Cancellariae), as well as published documents and relevant historical papers. The first part of the paper explores the trade connections between the cities of Dubrovnik and Shkodra, highlighting the most significant points of their relationship. It provides chronological data and facts
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/728/image/coversmallA Contribution to the Understanding of South-Eastern Adriatic Networks: Dubrovnik-Shkodra Interactions (1358-1396)2025-05-30text/htmlen-USA Contribution to the Understanding of South-Eastern Adriatic Networks: Dubrovnik-Shkodra Interactions (1358-1396)2025-05-302025TWOProject MUSE®1426812026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-05-30Perilous Imbalances: Greece's Search for Security in Conjunction with the Great Powers' Struggle in the First World War
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/960932
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Shortly before the turn of the twentieth century, Greece suffered a catastrophic defeat at the hands of the Ottomans (1897) which revealed the country's political, economic and military disintegration and led to the imposition of international economic surveillance the following year (1898). These events led to a series of structural reforms in the political, military, economic and administrative sectors in the wake of the military revolt of 1909 which brought Eleftherios Venizelos to power. This program of urban modernisation, launched on the eve of the First Balkan War, restored national power and provided Greece with the wherewithal to pursue the putative national objective, namely, the upgrading of its power
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/728/image/coversmallPerilous Imbalances: Greece's Search for Security in Conjunction with the Great Powers' Struggle in the First World War2025-05-30text/htmlen-USPerilous Imbalances: Greece's Search for Security in Conjunction with the Great Powers' Struggle in the First World War2025-05-302025TWOProject MUSE®1243442026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-05-30Scorrione West (Modica, Ragusa, Sicily): Spatial Organization and Visual Appearance in a rural Hypogeal Cemetery (5th Century CE)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/960933
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Rock-cut cemeteries are among the most numerous material traces of Late Antiquity in the Sicilian countryside (numerous examples from south-eastern Sicily in Führer & Schultze 1907; Agnello 1953; Di Stefano 1999; Rizzone & Sammito 2001, 2004, 2007). Yet, many questions regarding the organisation, appearance, uses and transformations of these sites are still to be answered. The excavations taking place in the last few years at the cemetery Scorrione W near Modica (Figures 1 and 2) have assembled a consistent dataset which sheds new light on these issues, as the present paper will discuss. It is expected that, as the 3D documentation of the site is processed and further lab analyses are performed, the preliminary
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/728/image/coversmallScorrione West (Modica, Ragusa, Sicily): Spatial Organization and Visual Appearance in a rural Hypogeal Cemetery (5th Century CE)2025-05-30text/htmlen-USScorrione West (Modica, Ragusa, Sicily): Spatial Organization and Visual Appearance in a rural Hypogeal Cemetery (5th Century CE)2025-05-302025TWOProject MUSE®994482026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-05-30From Pulpit to Press: William G. Schauffler (1798-1883) and the Institutionalisation of American Missions Among Ottoman Jews, Sabbateans and Turks
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/960934
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One of the major goals of the American missionary activities in the nineteenth century was to evangelize and enlighten the Orient. This article seeks to provide an overview of the life and legacy of a German-American missionary, William Gottleib Schauffler (1798–1883), elucidating his crucial role in institutionalising American Protestant missions among the Ottoman Jews, Sabbateans,1 and the Turks. Furthermore, it aims to evaluate his important contributions to the translation of both secular and religious texts, including dictionaries and Holy Scriptures from German, English and Hebrew into the vernacular languages of Ladino and Turkish in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Although general missionary
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/728/image/coversmallFrom Pulpit to Press: William G. Schauffler (1798-1883) and the Institutionalisation of American Missions Among Ottoman Jews, Sabbateans and Turks2025-05-30text/htmlen-USFrom Pulpit to Press: William G. Schauffler (1798-1883) and the Institutionalisation of American Missions Among Ottoman Jews, Sabbateans and Turks2025-05-302025TWOProject MUSE®1179132026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-05-30The Problem of Illegal Immigration among the Algerian Youth: The Paradox of Rent, Governance and Corruption
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/960935
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The rise in illicit immigration movements from northern Africa towards the northern Mediterranean coast has been a major source of concern over the past thirty years. During this period, millions of unauthorised immigrants have reached European countries, most of them young people. The factors contributing to the increasing numbers vary depending on the countries of origin, as well as the fluctuations in their political and economic circumstances. In the case of Algeria, few academic studies have comprehensively explored the issue of illegal immigration both nationally and internationally. For example, Charles E. Hanrahan (1971), Zehnati (2021), and Farrand (2021) have dealt with certain isolated aspects of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/728/image/coversmallThe Problem of Illegal Immigration among the Algerian Youth: The Paradox of Rent, Governance and Corruption2025-05-30text/htmlen-USThe Problem of Illegal Immigration among the Algerian Youth: The Paradox of Rent, Governance and Corruption2025-05-302025TWOProject MUSE®1368732026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-05-30Reversed Gender Roles in Folk Tales: Stories to be Read for Education Purposes: Is the Magic Mirror of Beauty Reserved Exclusively for Female Characters in Fairy Tales?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/960936
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A tale is a mirror of reality as the child sees it; he/she uses a tale to perceive both themselves and others, and constructs the understanding of social roles and relationships. Children identify themselves with a literary character (Sarland 2004), so that the tale participates in their construction of subjectivity and identity. If we consider the huge importance a tale has for a child, it is clear that we must make a good selection of stories for reading and we also need to read them critically in education.In some classical fairy tales many researchers see the mirror of a society cherishing a traditional discourse and supporting gender and other stereotypes (Kostas 2018; Vučković 2018; Zipes 2000). The so-called
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/728/image/coversmallReversed Gender Roles in Folk Tales: Stories to be Read for Education Purposes: Is the Magic Mirror of Beauty Reserved Exclusively for Female Characters in Fairy Tales?2025-05-30text/htmlen-USReversed Gender Roles in Folk Tales: Stories to be Read for Education Purposes: Is the Magic Mirror of Beauty Reserved Exclusively for Female Characters in Fairy Tales?2025-05-302025TWOProject MUSE®739642026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-05-30History of Turkish Literature in the Balkans (From the Beginning to the Present by Mustafa İsen and Tuba Durmuş (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/960937
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The Balkan region has hosted multiple countries, languages, religions, and cultures for centuries, which results with a great cultural heritage. Literature is a gateway to this diversity with its archival function. The book entitled Balkanlarda Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi (History of Turkish Literature in the Balkans) is one of these archives recording the great Balkan heritage with its focus on Turkish literature produced in the Balkan region from the fifteenth century up until the present day. This 640-page volume is a pioneering study, offering a comprehensive analysis of Turkish literature in the Balkans as it scrutinises both its development during the Ottoman period and in the succeeding nation-states ensuing the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/728/image/coversmallHistory of Turkish Literature in the Balkans (From the Beginning to the Present by Mustafa İsen and Tuba Durmuş (review)2025-05-30text/htmlen-USHistory of Turkish Literature in the Balkans (From the Beginning to the Present by Mustafa İsen and Tuba Durmuş (review)2025-05-302025TWOProject MUSE®93742026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-05-30