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
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. Their work is an essential tool for understanding the Mediterranean, pre-modern and modern alike.
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- 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
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. Their work is an essential tool for understanding the Mediterranean, pre-modern and modern alike.
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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, toarchaeologists, anthropologists and all historians with environmental interests, and not least to classicists.
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“'Review from previous edition The contributors Harris marshalls are aconstellation bright enough to guide any historical navigator ... [an]enormously valuable book.'Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Times Literary Supplement”
`Review from previous edition The contributors Harris marshalls are a constellation bright enough to guide any historical navigator ... [an] enormously valuable book.'Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Times Literary Supplement
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W. V. Harris is Shepherd Professor of History, Columbia University.
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.
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