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).

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.

Table of 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.