Transmitting and circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine worlds / edited by Mirela Ivanova and Hugh Jeffery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ivanova, Mirela, editor.

Jeffery, Hugh, editor.

Series:

Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 118.

The Medieval Mediterranean ; volume 118

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byzantine Empire--History.

Byzantine Empire.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Summary:

Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds seeks to be a crucial contribution to the history of medieval connectedness. Using one of the methodological tools associated with the global history movement, this volume aims to use connectedness to revitalise local and regional networks of exchange and movement. Its case studies collectively point caution toward assuming or asserting global-scale transmission of meaning or items unchanged, and show instead how meaning is locally produced and regionally formulated, and how this is no less dynamic than any global-level connectedness. These case studies by early career scholars range from the movement of cotton growing practices to the transmission of information within individual texts. Their wide scope, however, is nonetheless united by their preoccupation with transmission and circulation as categories of analysing or explaining movement and change in history. This volume hopes to be, therefore, a useful contribution to the growing field of a history of connectivity and connectedness. Contributors are Jovana Anđelković, Petér Bara, Mathew Barber, Julia Burdajewicz, Adele Curness, Carl Dixon, Alex MacFarlane, Anna Kelley, Matteo G. Randazzo, Katinka Sewing and Grace Stafford.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Acknowledgments

Maps and Illustrations

Contributors

Introduction / Mirela Ivanova and Hugh Jeffery

Movement of People

Evidence for Female Pilgrims at Abu Mina / Grace Stafford

Travelling Painters’ Workshops in the Late Antique Levant: Preliminary Observations / Julia Burdajewicz

A New Pilgrimage Site at Late Antique Ephesus / Katinka Sewing

“Slavery” outside the Slave Trade / Adele Curness

Transmitting Traditions

‘This Shocking Lobster’: Understanding the Fantastic Creatures of the Armenian Alexander Romance / Alex MacFarlane

Mauropous as Menander’s Student of Rhetoric / Jovana Anđelković

Reappraising the Arabic Accounts for the Conflict of 446/1054–5 / Mathew Barber

The Apparition of Leo of Chalcedon / Peter Bara

Contact

The Evidence of Byzantine Sgraffito Wares in 12th-Century Sicily / Matteo G. Randazzo

Between East Rome and Armenia: Paulician Ethnogenesis c.780–850 / Carl Dixon

By Land or by Sea: Tracing the Adoption of Cotton in the Economies of the Mediterranean / Anna Kelley

Back Matter

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-40946-7

OCLC:

1127946428

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004409460 DOI