Seafaring And Mobility In The Late Antique Mediterranean

Author : Antti Lampinen,Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350201729

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Seafaring and Mobility in the Late Antique Mediterranean by Antti Lampinen,Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz Pdf

More than any other type of environment, with the possible exception of mountains, the sea has been understood since antiquity as being immovable to a proverbial degree. Yet it was the sea's capacity for movement – both literally and figuratively through such emotions as fear, hope and pity – that formed one of the primary means of conceptualizing its significance in Late Antique societies. This volume advances a new and interdisciplinary understanding of what the sea as an environment and the pursuit of seafaring meant in antiquity, drawing on a range of literary, legal and archaeological evidence to explore the social, economic and cultural factors at play. The contributions are structured into three thematic parts which move from broad conceptual categories to specific questions of networks and mobility. Part One takes a wide view of the Mediterranean as an environment with great metaphorical and symbolic potential. Part Two looks at networks of seaborne communication and the role of islands as the characteristic hubs of the Mediterranean. Finally, Part Three engages with the practicalities of tackling the sea as a challenging environment that needs to be challenged politically, legally and for the means of travel.

Author : Antti Lampinen,Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350201712

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Seafaring and Mobility in the Late Antique Mediterranean by Antti Lampinen,Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz Pdf

More than any other type of environment, with the possible exception of mountains, the sea has been understood since antiquity as being immovable to a proverbial degree. Yet it was the sea's capacity for movement – both literally and figuratively through such emotions as fear, hope and pity – that formed one of the primary means of conceptualizing its significance in Late Antique societies. This volume advances a new and interdisciplinary understanding of what the sea as an environment and the pursuit of seafaring meant in antiquity, drawing on a range of literary, legal and archaeological evidence to explore the social, economic and cultural factors at play. The contributions are structured into three thematic parts which move from broad conceptual categories to specific questions of networks and mobility. Part one takes a wide view of the Mediterranean as an environment with great metaphorical and symbolic potential. Part two looks at networks of seaborne communication and the role of islands as the characteristic hubs of the Mediterranean. Finally, part three engages with the practicalities of tackling the sea as a challenging environment that needs to be challenged politically, legally and for the means of travel.

Author : Justin Leidwanger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Mediterranean Region
ISBN : 9780190083656

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Roman Seas by Justin Leidwanger Pdf

"This book offers an archaeological analysis of maritime economy and connectivity in the Roman east. That seafaring was fundamental to prosperity under Rome is beyond doubt, but a tendency to view the grandest long-distance movements among major cities against a background noise of small-scale, short-haul activity has tended to flatten the finer and varied contours of maritime interaction and coastal life into a featureless blue Mediterranean. Drawing together maritime landscape studies and network analysis, this work takes a bottom-up view of the diverse socioeconomic conditions and seafaring logistics that generated multiple structures and scales of interaction. The material record of shipwrecks and ports along a vital corridor from the southeast Aegean across the northeast Mediterranean provides a case study of regional exchange and communication based on routine sails between simple coastal facilities. Rather than a single well-integrated and persistent Mediterranean network, multiple discrete and evolving regional and interregional systems emerge. This analysis sheds light on the cadence of economic life along the coast, the development of market institutions, and the regional continuities that underpinned integration-despite certain interregional disintegration-into Late Antiquity. Through this model of seaborne interaction, the study advances a new approach to the synthesis of shipwreck and other maritime archaeological and historical economic data, as well as a path through the stark dichotomies that inform most paradigms of Roman connectivity and trade"--

Author : Justin Leidwanger,Carl Knappett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108429948

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Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World by Justin Leidwanger,Carl Knappett Pdf

This book uses network ideas to explore how the sea connected communities across the ancient Mediterranean. We look at the complexity of cultural interaction, and the diverse modes of maritime mobility through which people and objects moved. It will be of interest to Mediterranean specialists, ancient historians, and maritime archaeologists.

Author : Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz
Publisher : Mnemosyne, Supplements
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9004514988

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Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms by Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz Pdf

This book changes our understanding of the Roman conceptions about the sea by placing the focus on shipwrecks as events that act as bridges between the sea and the land. The study explores the different Roman legal definitions of these spaces, and how individuals of divergent legal statuses interacted within these areas. Its main purpose is to chart and analyse the Roman conception of the maritime landscape from the Late Republican until the Severan period. This book integrates maritime history and ethnography with the physical remains of past maritime systems, such as shipwrecks, ports, villages, fortifications, and documented legal rulings.

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1905905173

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Maritime Archaeology and Ancient Trade in the Mediterranean by Andrew Wilson Pdf

Maritime Archaeology and Ancient Trade in the Mediterranean comprises twelve papers that look at the shifting patterns of maritime trade as seen through archaeological evidence across the economic cycle of Classical Antiquity. Papers range from an initial study of Egyptian ship wrecks dating from the sixth to fifth century BC from the submerged harbour of Heracleion-Thonis through to studies of connectivity and trade in the eastern Mediterranean during the Late Antique period. The majority of the papers, however, focus on the high point in ancient maritime trade during the Roman period and examine developments in shipping, port facilities and trading routes.

Author : William Vernon Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0199265453

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Rethinking the Mediterranean by William Vernon Harris Pdf

"This text examines the ancient and medieval history of the Mediterranean Sea and the lands around it"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Katja Ritari,Jan R. Stenger,William Van Andringa
Publisher : Helsinki University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789523690981

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Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages by Katja Ritari,Jan R. Stenger,William Van Andringa Pdf

What does it mean to identify oneself as pagan or Christian in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages? How are religious identities constructed, negotiated, and represented in oral and written discourse? How is identity performed in rituals, how is it visible in material remains? Antiquity and the Middle Ages are usually regarded as two separate fields of scholarship. However, the period between the fourth and tenth centuries remains a time of transformations in which the process of religious change and identity building reached beyond the chronological boundary and the Roman, the Christian and ‘the barbarian’ traditions were merged in multiple ways. Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages brings together researchers from various fields, including archaeology, history, classical studies, and theology, to enhance discussion of this period of change as one continuum across the artificial borders of the different scholarly disciplines. With new archaeological data and contributions from scholars specializing on both textual and material remains, these different fields of study shed light on how religious identities of the people of the past are defined and identified. The contributions reassess the interplay of diversity and homogenising tendencies in a shifting religious landscape. Beyond the diversity of traditions, this book highlights the growing capacity of Christianity to hold together, under its control, the different dimensions – identity, cultural, ethical and emotional – of individual and collective religious experience.

Author : Iain Ferris
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803277820

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A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind: Visualising Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World by Iain Ferris Pdf

This study considers the relationship between geography and power in the Roman world, most particularly the visualisation of geographical knowledge in myriad forms of geography products: geographical treatises, histories, poems, personifications, landscape representations, images of barbarian peoples, maps, itineraries, and imported foodstuffs.

Author : Hamish Williams,Ross Clare
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781802079227

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The Ancient Sea by Hamish Williams,Ross Clare Pdf

In the ancient Mediterranean world, the sea was an essential domain for trade, cultural exchange, communication, exploration, and colonisation. In tandem with the lived reality of this maritime space, a parallel experience of the sea emerged in narrative representations from ancient Greece and Rome, of the sea as a cultural imaginary. This imaginary seems often to oscillate between two extremes: the utopian and the catastrophic; such representations can be found in narratives from ancient history, philosophy, society, and literature, as well as in their post-classical receptions. Utopia can be found in some imaginary island paradise far away and across the distant sea; the sea can hold an unknown, mysterious, divine wealth below its surface; and the sea itself as a powerful watery body can hold a liberating potential. The utopian quality of the sea and seafaring can become a powerful metaphor for articulating political notions of the ideal state or for expressing an individual’s sense of hope and subjectivity. Yet the catastrophic sea balances any perfective imaginings: the sea threatens coastal inhabitants with floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes and sailors with storms and the accompanying monsters. From symbolic perspectives, the catastrophic sea represents violence, instability, the savage, and even cosmological chaos. The twelve papers in this volume explore the themes of utopia and catastrophe in the liminal environment of the sea, through the lens of history, philosophy, literature and classical reception. Contributors: Manuel Álvarez-Martí-Aguilar, Vilius Bartninkas, Aaron L. Beek, Ross Clare, Gabriele Cornelli, Isaia Crosson, Ryan Denson, Rhiannon Easterbrook, Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, Georgia L. Irby, Simona Martorana, Guy Middleton, Hamish Williams.

Author : Graham John Oliver
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049682373

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The Sea in Antiquity by Graham John Oliver Pdf

Thirteen papers which originated in the seminar series The Transpennine Research Seminar, begun in 1996, and reflect a wide range of topics associated with the Mediterranean and Aegean from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. Subjects include: the sea and seafaring in Greek literature and hagiography; Mediterranean trade; the navies of the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans; the ancient ship and pirates.

Author : Rosario Rovira Guardiola
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474298612

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Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts by Rosario Rovira Guardiola Pdf

When thinking about the Mediterranean, Fernand Braudel's haunting words resound like an echo of the sea and its millenary history. From Prehistory until today, the Mediterranean has been setting, witness and protagonist of mythical adventures, of encounters with the Other, of battles and the rise and fall of cultures and empires, of the destinies of humans. Braudel's appeal for a long durée history of the Mediterranean challenged traditional views that often present it as a sea fragmented and divided through periods. This volume proposes a journey into the bright and dark sides of the ancient Mediterranean through the kaleidoscopic gaze of artists who from the Renaissance to the 21st century have been inspired by its myths and history. The view of those who imagined and recreated the past of the sea has largely contributed to the shaping of modern cultures which are inexorably rooted and embedded in Mediterranean traditions. The contributions look at modern visual reinterpretations of ancient myths, fiction and history and pay particular attention to the theme of sea travel and travellers, which since Homer's Odyssey has become the epitome of the discovery of new worlds, of cultural exchanges and a metaphor of personal developments and metamorphoses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004685734

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Law and Power by Anonim Pdf

In the Roman world, landscapes became legal and institutional constructions, being the core of social, political, religious, and economic life. The Romans developed ambitious urban transformations, seeking to equate civic monumentality and legal status. The built environment becomes the axis of the legal, administrative, sacred, and economic system and the main element of dissemination of imperial ideology. This volume follows the modern trend of a multifaceted, composite, multi-layered Roman world, but at the same time reduces its complexity. It views ‘Roman’ not only in the sense of power politics, but also in a cultural context. It highlights ‘landscapes’ and puts into the shadow important administrative and legal structures, i.e., individuals viz. local and imperial members of the elites living in cities, which ran the Roman world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004525139

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Law and Economic Performance in the Roman World by Anonim Pdf

Were legal systems in the Roman empire conducive to economic growth and development? Were legal rules and procedure changed in response to economic needs? This book offers detailed studies to provide some answers to these basic questions.

Author : Fik Meijer
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Mediterranean Region
ISBN : 0312000758

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A History of Seafaring in the Classical World by Fik Meijer Pdf