W. V. Harris (ed.)

Rethinking the Mediterranean

Herausgeber: Harris, W. V.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this collection of essays, an international group of renowned scholars attempt to establish the theoretical basis for studying the ancient and medieval history of the Mediterranean Sea and the lands around it. In so doing they range far afield to other Mediterraneans, real and imaginary, as distant as Brazil and Japan. Their work is an essential tool for understanding the Mediterranean, pre-modern and modern alike. It speaks to ancient and medieval historians, to archaeologists, anthropologists and all historians with environmental interests, and not least to classicists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9780199207725
• ISBN-10: 0199207720
• Artikelnr.: 21315488

Autorenporträt

W. V. Harris is Shepherd Professor of History, Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: W. V. Harris: The Mediterranean and ancient history
* The Big Canvas
* 2: Michael Herzfeld: Practical Mediterraneanism
* 3: David Abulafia: Mediterraneans
* 4: Alain Bresson: Ecology and beyond: the Mediterranean paradigm
* Angles of Vision
* 5: Marc Van De Mieroop: The eastern Mediterranean in early antiquity
* 6: Angelos Chaniotis: Ritual dynamics in the eastern Mediterranean:
case studies in ancient Greece and Asis Minor
* 7: G. W. Bowersock: The east-west orientation of Mediterranean
studies and the meaning of North and South in antiquity
* 8: Peregrine Horden: Travel sickness: medicine and mobility in the
Mediterranean from antiquity to the Renaissance
* 9: Nicholas Purcell: The ancient Mediterranean: the view from the
customs-house
* The Archaeology of Knowledge
* 10: Christopher Drew Armstrong: Travel and experience in the
Mediterranean of Louis XV
* 11: Suzanne Said: The mirage of Greek continuity: on the uses and
abuses of analogy in some travel narratives from the 17th to the 18th
centuries
* 12: Francisco Marshall: Mediterranean reception in the Americas
* 13: Susan E. Alcock: Alphabet soup in the Mediterranean basin: the
emergence of the Mediterranean serial
* Last Words
* 14: Roger S. Bagnall: Egypt and the concept of the Mediterranean
* 15: Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell: Four years of
`Corruption': a response to critics