Western perspectives on the Mediterranean cultural transfer in late antiquity and the early middle ages, 400-800 AD edited by Andreas Fischer and Ian Woods.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer, Andreas, editor.

Wood, Ian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 p.)

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Based on close analyses of contemporary texts, and backed by an examination of the origins of the elements transferred and of the process of transmission, the contributors to this volume focus on the perception and adaptation of knowledge and cultural elements in the West. Taking a variety of approaches, they shed light on the changing lines of communication between the Byzantine empire and other parts of the Mediterranean, on the one hand, and the Burgundian, Frankish and Anglo-Saxon realms and the Papacy on the other."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Based on close analyses of contemporary texts, and backed by an examination of the origins of the elements transferred and of the process of transmission, the contributors to this volume focus on the perception and adaptation of knowledge and cultural elements in the West. Taking a variety of approaches, they shed light on the changing lines of communication between the Byzantine empire and other parts of the Mediterranean, on the one hand, and the Burgundian, Frankish and Anglo-Saxon realms and the Papacy on the other

Contents:

Introduction

The Burgundians and Byzantium

Ian Wood (School of History, University of Leeds, Uk)

'Avenger of All Perjury' in Constantinople, Ravenna and Metz: St Polyeuctus, Sigibert I and the Division Of

Charibert's Kingdom in 568

Stefan Esders (Friedrich-meinecke-institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

The Historian as Cultural Broker in the Late and Post-roman West

Helmut Reimitz (Department of History, Princeton University, USA)

Rewriting History: Fredegar's Perspectives on the Mediterranean

Andreas Fischer (Friedrich-meinecke-institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

Greek Popes: Yes or No, and Did It Matter?

Thomas Noble (Department of History, University of Notre Dame, USA)

Mediterranean Lessons for Northumbrian Monks in Bede's Chronica

Maiora Sören Kaschke (Seminar Für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany)

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781472555885

1472555880

9781472502117

1472502116

9781472502124

1472502124

OCLC:

881681181