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Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds
Series: - The Medieval Mediterranean, Volume: 118
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.
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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.
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Mirela Ivanova is a Junior Research Fellow at University College, Oxford. Her research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on ideas about writing and literacy.
Hugh Jeffery is a Career Development Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is an archaeologist focusing on material culture in Western Asia Minor from the sixth through to the twelfth century.
Hugh Jeffery is a Career Development Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is an archaeologist focusing on material culture in Western Asia Minor from the sixth through to the twelfth century.
Acknowledgments
List of Maps and Illustrations
Contributors
Introduction
Mirela Ivanova and Hugh Jeffery
1 Evidence for Female Pilgrims at Abu Mina
Grace Stafford
2 Travelling Painters’ Workshops in the Late Antique Levant: Preliminary Observations
Julia Burdajewicz
3 A New Pilgrimage Site at Late Antique Ephesus. Transfer of Religious Ideas in Western Asia Minor
Katinka Sewing
4 “Slavery” outside the Slave Trade. The Movement and Status of Captives between Byzantine Calabria and the Islamic World
Adele Curness
5 ‘This Shocking Lobster’: Understanding the Fantastic Creatures of the Armenian Alexander Romance
Alex MacFarlane
6 Mauropous as Menander’s Student of Rhetoric. An Exile Progymnasma
Jovana Anđelković
7 Reappraising the Arabic Accounts for the Conflict of 446/1054–5. An Egyptian Perspective on ConstantineIX and His Immediate Successors
Mathew Barber
8 The Apparition of Leo of Chalcedon. Anna Komnene’s Reproduction of a Lost Family Account of the Doukai
Petér Bara
9 The Evidence of Byzantine Sgraffito Ware in 12th-Century Sicily. A Case Study into Economic and Socio-cultural Connections between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and Komnenian Greece?
Matteo G. Randazzo
10 Between East Rome and Armenia: Paulician Ethnogenesis c.780–850
Carl Dixon
11 By Land or by Sea: Tracing the Adoption of Cotton in the Economies of the Mediterranean
Anna Kelley
index
List of Maps and Illustrations
Contributors
Introduction
Mirela Ivanova and Hugh Jeffery
Part 1: Movement of People
1 Evidence for Female Pilgrims at Abu Mina
Grace Stafford
2 Travelling Painters’ Workshops in the Late Antique Levant: Preliminary Observations
Julia Burdajewicz
3 A New Pilgrimage Site at Late Antique Ephesus. Transfer of Religious Ideas in Western Asia Minor
Katinka Sewing
4 “Slavery” outside the Slave Trade. The Movement and Status of Captives between Byzantine Calabria and the Islamic World
Adele Curness
Part 2: Transmitting Traditions
5 ‘This Shocking Lobster’: Understanding the Fantastic Creatures of the Armenian Alexander Romance
Alex MacFarlane
6 Mauropous as Menander’s Student of Rhetoric. An Exile Progymnasma
Jovana Anđelković
7 Reappraising the Arabic Accounts for the Conflict of 446/1054–5. An Egyptian Perspective on Constantine
Mathew Barber
8 The Apparition of Leo of Chalcedon. Anna Komnene’s Reproduction of a Lost Family Account of the Doukai
Petér Bara
Part 3: Contact
9 The Evidence of Byzantine Sgraffito Ware in 12th-Century Sicily. A Case Study into Economic and Socio-cultural Connections between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and Komnenian Greece?
Matteo G. Randazzo
10 Between East Rome and Armenia: Paulician Ethnogenesis c.780–850
Carl Dixon
11 By Land or by Sea: Tracing the Adoption of Cotton in the Economies of the Mediterranean
Anna Kelley
index
All interested in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from both a historical and archaeological perspective, as well as more generally global history and the history of connectedness.