The Mediterranean,the sea of cities

Collection title

The Mediterranean of cities

ID

BIB00214

Source

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EG)

First broadcast date

04/15/2007

Production year

2007

Abstract

The Conferences within the framework of "Thinking the Mediterranean" aim at creating a field of dialogue and exchange. Jean-Luc Arnaud speaks of the Mediterranean as a sea which is a symbolic site of contact between the city and the countryside. He states that the history of cities of the Mediterranean is a story of growth, decay and rebirth, where cities are growing and are failing more rapidly than in the interior of countries. He also speaks of the importance of Istanbul and its 14 centuries of history, which is a double crossing point, one by the sea and the other by land. There is also a talk of the new literary and scientific genre born around the Mediterranean in the fifteenth century : The "isolari" a way to represent and map the islands and shores of the Mediterranean. A Great Venetian speciality, which was also appreciated by the Ottomans. In addition to the meeting between the humanist tradition of mapping and related needs of navigation techniques, the "isolari" also meet the geopolitical challenges of their time, where drawing and representation represented an act of appropriation of a territory.

Type

video

Production companies

• Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Own production

Broadcaster

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Audiovisual form

Conference

Personalities

• Arnaud Jean-Luc

Primary theme

Historical heritages

Credits / Cast

• Arnaud Jean-Luc - Participant

Period of events

• From 1500 to 1800

Map locations

• Turkey - Marmara Province - Istanbul

Original language

French

Media running time

25m40