Western Perpectives on the Mediterranean: Cultural Transfer in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 400-800 AD - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780930275 ISBN 13: 9781780930275

Publisher: Bristol Classical Press, 2013

Synopsis

Based on close analyses of contemporary texts, and backed by an examination of the origins of the elements transferred and of the process of transmission, the contributors to this volume focus on the perception and adaptation of knowledge and cultural elements in the West. Taking a variety of approaches, they shed light on the changing lines of communication between the Byzantine empire and other parts of the Mediterranean, on the one hand, and the Burgundian, Frankish and Anglo-Saxon realms and the Papacy on the other.

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Review:

By shifting attention from the western post-Roman kingdoms to the broader regions of the Mediterranean, the six engaging papers collected in this volume stoutly challenge received perceptions regarding the interaction and exchange of ideas between the East-Mediterranean world of Byzantium and the Barbarian West. This volume is both a welcome contribution to the burgeoning literature on the transformation of the Roman world, and a fresh thought-provoking re-evaluation of the Pirenne thesis. --Yitzhak Hen, Ana and Sam Lopin Professor of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Collectively, these six essays reveal vividly that the communication routes of the early medieval Mediterranean carried not only commodities, objects of devotion, and travelers themselves, but intangible cultural products as well. --Gregory Halfond, Framingham State University, USA, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

About the Author:

Andreas Fischer is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Ian Wood is Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leeds, UK

About this edition

• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1780930275
• ISBN 13: 9781780930275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Andreas Fischer, Ian Wood