Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds (Medieval Mediterranean, 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 Anđelkovic, Petér Bara, Mathew Barber, Julia Burdajewicz, Adele Curness, Carl Dixon, Alex MacFarlane, Anna Kelley, Matteo G. Randazzo, Katinka Sewing and Grace Stafford. See inside the book . 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 Andelkovic, Peter Bara, Mathew Barber, Julia Burdajewicz, Adele Curness, Carl Dixon, Alex MacFarlane, Anna Kelley, Matteo G. Randazzo, Katinka Sewing, and Grace Stafford "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."--Page 4 de la couverture Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 List of Maps and Illustrations 9 Contributors 11 Introduction 14 Part 1: Movement of People 22 1 Evidence for Female Pilgrims at Abu Mina 24 2 Travelling Painters' Workshops in the Late Antique Levant: Preliminary Observations 57 3 A New Pilgrimage Site at Late Antique Ephesus 91 4 "Slavery" outside the Slave Trade 115 Part 2: Transmitting Traditions 136 5 'This Shocking Lobster': Understanding the Fantastic Creatures of the Armenian Alexander Romance 138 6 Mauropous as Menander's Student of Rhetoric 162 7 Reappraising the Arabic Accounts for the Conflict of 446/1054-5 183 8 The Apparition of Leo of Chalcedon 212 Part 3: Contact 238 9 The Evidence of Byzantine Sgraffito Wares in 12th-Century Sicily 240 10 Between East Rome and Armenia: Paulician Ethnogenesis c.780-850 264 11 By Land or by Sea: Tracing the Adoption of Cotton in the Economies of the Mediterranean 287 Index 312