Homesickness around the Mediterranean, 1492?1923 (Routledge Studies in Cultural History)

This volume analyzes how people of diverse cultural and religious backgrounds living around the “Middle Sea” perceived, felt, and described homesickness, using a multidisciplinary approach which brings new perspectives to known phenomena and their evolving meanings.

The sixteen chapters in this book span the fields of history, literary and cultural studies, and musicology to explore and revisit old and new subjects including diasporas, renegades, expatriates, travelogues, testaments, inquisitorial processes, songbooks, movies, and photos. Together, they provide a comprehensive picture of homesickness across states, cultures, religions, and people, furthering understanding of how individuals, communities, and nations created and expressed images, ideas, and emotions on this subject. Though centered around the Mediterranean, this volume also studies the impact of homesickness in a larger geography touched by the Iberian empires.

This important contribution to the history of emotions offers studies on subjects seldom available in the English-speaking world and will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars, and non-specialists alike.

José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim is a Senior Researcher at the Center for History, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. His main area of interest is Jewish Studies, in which he has published more than 60 articles and 4 books.

João Teles e Cunha is an Invited Auxiliary Professor at the Institute of Asian Studies and researcher at the Centre for Classical Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. His fields of interest are trade, society, and culture of South Asia and the Middle East in the early modern age, having published several articles and books on the subject.