{"product_id":"transmitting-and-circulating-the-late-antique-and-byzantine-worlds-9789004409453","title":"Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTransmitting 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.    See inside the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments    List of Maps and Illustrations    Contributors    Introduction     Mirela Ivanova and Hugh Jeffery      Part 1: Movement of People     1 Evidence for Female Pilgrims at Abu Mina    Grace Stafford     2 Travelling Painters’ Workshops in the Late Antique Levant: Preliminary Observations    Julia Burdajewicz     3 A New Pilgrimage Site at Late Antique Ephesus. Transfer of Religious Ideas in Western Asia Minor    Katinka Sewing     4 “Slavery” outside the Slave Trade. The Movement and Status of Captives between Byzantine Calabria and the Islamic World    Adele Curness      Part 2: Transmitting Traditions     5 ‘This Shocking Lobster’: Understanding the Fantastic Creatures of the Armenian Alexander Romance    Alex MacFarlane     6 Mauropous as Menander’s Student of Rhetoric. An Exile Progymnasma    Jovana Anđelković     7 Reappraising the Arabic Accounts for the Conflict of 446\/1054–5.  An Egyptian Perspective on Constantine IX and His Immediate Successors    Mathew Barber     8 The Apparition of Leo of Chalcedon. Anna Komnene’s Reproduction of a Lost Family Account of the Doukai    Petér Bara      Part 3: Contact   9 The Evidence of Byzantine Sgraffito Ware in 12th-Century Sicily. A Case Study into Economic and Socio-cultural Connections between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and Komnenian Greece?    Matteo G. Randazzo     10 Between East Rome and Armenia: Paulician Ethnogenesis c.780–850    Carl Dixon     11 By Land or by Sea: Tracing the Adoption of Cotton in the Economies of the Mediterranean    Anna Kelley      index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210781548887,"sku":"9789004409453","price":104.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transmitting-and-circulating-the-late-antique-and-byzantine-worlds-9789004409453","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}