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

• Superior document: The Medieval Mediterranean ; volume 118
• TeilnehmendeR: Ivanova, Mirela,; Jeffery, Hugh,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 118.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page --; Acknowledgments --; Maps and Illustrations --; Contributors --; Introduction /; Movement of People --; Evidence for Female Pilgrims at Abu Mina /; Travelling Painters’ Workshops in the Late Antique Levant: Preliminary Observations /; A New Pilgrimage Site at Late Antique Ephesus /; “Slavery” outside the Slave Trade /; Transmitting Traditions --; ‘This Shocking Lobster’: Understanding the Fantastic Creatures of the Armenian Alexander Romance /; Mauropous as Menander’s Student of Rhetoric /; Reappraising the Arabic Accounts for the Conflict of 446/1054–5 /; The Apparition of Leo of Chalcedon /; Contact --; The Evidence of Byzantine Sgraffito Wares in 12th-Century Sicily /; Between East Rome and Armenia: Paulician Ethnogenesis c.780–850 /; By Land or by Sea: Tracing the Adoption of Cotton in the Economies of the Mediterranean /; Back Matter --; Index.
• ISBN: 9004409467
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Mirela Ivanova and Hugh Jeffery.

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.