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Artikel 2023

Textually Invisible? Emporia on the Southern Shore of the Baltic in Scandinavian Medieval Sources

Autoren / Herausgeber: Carina Damm

Veröffentlicht in: Studia Maritima

The present study focuses on early medieval trading places, so-called emporia, along the south- ern Baltic coast in today’s territories of Schleswig, Mecklenburg, and Pomorze, and their prominence in Old Norse literature. Intriguingly, from the archaeologically identified sixteen…

DOI: 10.18276/sm.2023.36-09 · ISSN: 0137-3587

Artikel 2019

Race, Religion, and the Contradictions of Identity: Frederick Douglass Visits Rome in the Wake of Other Americans

Autoren / Herausgeber: Dorothy Figueira

Veröffentlicht in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny

This essay examines nineteenth-century literary responses to the perception of Roman Catholicism’s excess. It focuses on Frederick Douglass’s visit to Rome in 1887. Douglass, a former slave who had become a gifted writer and orator, visited Italy during a Grand Tour of the con…

DOI: 10.18276/rk.2019.10-01 · ISSN: 2081-8718