Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone : Aspects of Mobility Between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300-1500 C. E / Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Lucian Reinfandt, and Yannis Stouraitis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes, author.

Reinfandt, Lucian, author.

Stouraitis, Yannis, author.

Series:

Studies in global social history ; Volume 39.

Studies in Global Social History Series ; Volume 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africans--Migrations--History.

Africans.

Asians--Migrations--History.

Asians.

Europeans--Migrations--History.

Europeans.

Human beings--Migrations--History.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2020

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The transition zone between Africa, Asia and Europe was the most important intersection of human mobility in the medieval period. The present volume for the first time systematically covers migration histories of the regions between the Mediterranean and Central Asia and between Eastern Europe and the Indian Ocean in the centuries from Late Antiquity up to the early modern era. Within this framework, specialists from Byzantine, Islamic, Medieval and African history provide detailed analyses of specific regions and groups of migrants, both elites and non-elites as well as voluntary and involuntary. Thereby, also current debates of migration studies are enriched with a new dimension of deep historical time. Contributors are: Alexander Beihammer, Lutz Berger, Florin Curta, Charalampos Gasparis, George Hatke, Dirk Hoerder, Johannes Koder, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Lucian Reinfandt, Youval Rotman, Yannis Stouraitis, Panayiotis Theodoropoulos, and Myriam Wissa".

Contents:

Intro

Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone: Aspects of Mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300-1500 C.E.

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

1 Migration History of the Afro-Eurasian Transition Zone, c. 300-1500: An Introduction (with a Chronological Table of Selected Events of Political and Migration History)

2 Introductory Essay: Migration-Travel-Commerce-Cultural Transfer. The Complex Connections Byzantium-Kiev-Novgorod-Varangian Lands, 6-14th Century

Part 1: Migration in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, 6th-10th Century

3 On the Slavic Immigration in the Byzantine Balkans

4 Migrations in the Archaeology of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages (Some Comments on the Current State of Research)

Part 2: Migrations and Mobility into and within the Byzantine World

5 Migrating in the Medieval East Roman World, ca. 600-1204

6 Patterns of Turkish Migration and Expansion in Byzantine Asia Minor in the 11th and 12th Centuries

7 Migration and Ethnicity in the Venetian Territories of the Eastern Mediterranean (13th to 15th Century)

Part 3: Migration in Early Islamic Societies

8 Iranians in 9th Century Egypt

9 The Last Revolt of Bashmur (831 a.d.) in Coptic and Syriac Historiography

10 The Migration of Syrian and Palestinian Populations in the 7th Century: Movement of Individuals and Groups in the Mediterranean

Part 4: Diasporas and Migrations across the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone

11 The Aksumites in South Arabia: An African Diaspora of Late Antiquity

12 Aristocrats, Mercenaries, Clergymen and Refugees: Deliberate and Forced Mobility of Armenians in the Early Medieval Mediterranean (6th to 11th Century a.d.)

Part 5: Forced Mobility and Slavery

13 Migration and Enslavement: A Medieval Model.

14 Mamluks in Abbasid Society

General Maps

Select Bibliography on the Medieval Migration History of the Afro-Eurasian Transition Zone

Index of Persons and Names

Index of Subjects

Geographical Index

List of Places Displayed on Map 15.1. and their Geographical Coordinates.

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ISBN:

90-04-42561-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004425613 DOI

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access