Ships, Saints and Sealore

• 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

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