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Mobility and travel in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the Middle Ages / Renate Schlesier, Ulrike Zellmann (eds.).
- Format:
- Microformat
- Series:
- Reiseliteratur und Kulturanthropologie ; Bd. 1.
- Reiseliteratur und Kulturanthropologie ; Bd. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages and travels--History--To 1500.
- Voyages and travels.
- Travel, Medieval.
- Travel, Ancient.
- Population geography--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.
- Population geography.
- History.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 134 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Münster : Lit, 2004.
- Summary:
- The Mediterranean represents the dynamics of cultural identity through approximation and differentiation, openness and self-assertion, and constant contact through travel to foreign regions, cultures, and societies. For ancient Greek culture, mobility seems to have been a specific characteristic. The same can be said for the Christian, Judiac, and Islamic Middle Ages, however, under different or changed circumstances. This book presents the contributions to an international workshop in cultural analysis, which focused on mobility as a proof of the historical flexibility of Mediterranean cultural systems.
- Contents:
- New 'panhellenic' festivals in Hellenistic Greece / Robert Parker
- The anatomy of a mobile culture : the Greeks, their pots and their myths in Etruria / Robin Osborne
- Obelisken unterwegs : Untersuchungen zu einem wiederkehrenden Kulturphänomen [with English summary] / Karin Hornig
- Fixity / Nicholas Purcell
- Cultural exchange between the Byzantine Empire and the Frankish realm during the 8th and 9th centuries / Andreas Mohr
- The Mediterranean in the High Middle Ages : area of unity or diversity? : Arnold of Lübeck's Chronica Slavorum / Volker Scior
- Regimen and travel in the Mediterranean / Peregrine Horden.
- Notes:
- Proceedings of a workshop held 26 June 2001 at the University of Paderborn.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 3825867552
- OCLC:
- 57567368
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