A Companion to Mediterranean History (eBook)

Peregrine Horden, Sharon Kinoshita (Herausgeber)

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2014
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-51933-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A Companion to Mediterranean History presents a wide-ranging overview of this vibrant field of historical research, drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines to discuss the development of the region from Neolithic times to the present.

 

• Provides a valuable introduction to current debates on Mediterranean history and helps define the field for a new generation
• Covers developments in the Mediterranean world from Neolithic times to the modern era
• Enables fruitful dialogue among a wide range of disciplines, including  history, archaeology, art, literature, and anthropology

A Companion to Mediterranean History presents the first authoritative overview of this diverse and vibrant field of historical research.  Featuring contributions from leading experts in various strands of Mediterranean research - including history, anthropology, archaeology and art history - essays cover developments in the region from Neolithic times to the modern era.   

 

Mediterranean history has never been more widely debated or practised, yet there remains no consensus about precisely how this history should be written, the definition of its parameters, or the breadth of topics it should include. In summarising the latest scholarship and reappraising key concepts, contributors to this volume enable fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue on subjects ranging from climate and cartography to material culture and heritage politics. A Companion to Mediterranean History represents an invaluable guide to the current state of Mediterranean scholarship that will also help to redefine the field for a new generation.

Autor

Sharon Kinoshita is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is Co-Director of the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies, and Co-Director of the UC Multicampus Research Project in Mediterranean Studies. Her publications include Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature (2006). Peregrine Horden is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is co-author, with Nicholas Purcell, of The Corrupting Sea (2000), and author of Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages (2008).

Inhalt

List of Figures viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgements xiv

Introduction 1
Peregrine Horden

Part I Climate and Vegetation 9

1 The Mediterranean Climate 11
Fredric Cheyette

2 The Vegetative Mediterranean 26
Paolo Squatriti

Part II Turning Points and Phases 43

3 Mediterranean "Prehistory" 45
Cyprian Broodbank

4 The Ancient Mediterranean 59
Nicholas Purcell

5 The Medieval Mediterranean 77
Dominique Valérian

6 The Early Modern Mediterranean 91
Molly Greene

7 Mediterranean Modernity? 107
Naor Ben-Yehoyada

8 Po-Mo Med 122
Michael Herzfeld

Part III Politics and Power 137

9 Thalassocracies 139
David Abulafia

10 Nautical Technology 154
Ruthy Gertwagen

11 Piracy 170
Clifford R. Backman

12 Cartography 184
Emilie Savage-Smith

Part IV Settlement and Society 201

13 Settlement Patterns 203
John Bintliff

14 Cave Dwelling 219
Valerie Ramseyer

15 Family and Household 234
Paola Sacchi and Pier Paolo Viazzo

16 Disease 250
Robert Sallares

17 Forms of Slavery 263
Youval Rotman

Part V Language and Culture 279

18 Material Culture 281
Tehmina Goskar

19 Visual Culture 296
Cecily J. Hilsdale

20 Mediterranean Literature 314
Sharon Kinoshita

21 Lingua Franca 330
Karla Mallette

22 Hybridity 345
Steven A. Epstein

Part VI Religions in Conflict and Co-existence 359

23 Ethno-Religious Minorities 361
Brian A. Catlos

24 Shared Sacred Places 378
Maria Couroucli

25 Jews 392
Fred Astren

Part VII the Mediterranean and a Wider World 409

26 The Mediterranean and the Atlantic 411
Teofilo F. Ruiz

27 The Mediterranean and Africa 425
Ray A. Kea

28 The Mediterranean and Asia 441
Nicholas Doumanis

29 The Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean 457
Elizabeth Ann Pollard

Index 475

Rezensionen

"This central issue, whether the Mediterranean exists as a useful analytical category or is just a misleading, romanticized construct that has been self-actualized by the inhabitants, underpins this excellent companion." (H-War, March 2015)

"It will surely hold the attention of both specialist researcher and general student alike." (Reference Reviews, 1 December 2014

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Notes on Contributors

David Abulafia is Professor of Mediterranean History in the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His numerous books include The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (London and New York: Allen Lane and Oxford University Press, 2011), and The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008).

Fred Astren (PhD Berkeley) is Professor of Jewish Studies and a member of the Faculty in Middle East and Islamic Studies at San Francisco State University. He has published Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004), and works on early medieval Jewish history in the Mediterranean and in the orbit of Islam.

Clifford R. Backman has taught at Boston University since 1989. He has published three books: The Decline and Fall of Medieval Sicily (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), The Worlds of Medieval Europe (2nd edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), and The Cultures of the West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). He is currently at work on a study of the idea of tolerance in medieval Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

Naor Ben-Yehoyada is Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. He specializes in Mediterranean maritime, political, and historical anthropology, specifically the maritime aspect of Israeli-Palestinian history and post-World War Two region formation processes between Sicily and Tunisia.

John Bintliff is Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and Professorial Fellow, Edinburgh University. He studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University, where he also completed his PhD in 1977 on the (pre)history of human settlement in Greece. He was Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Bradford University, where he taught from 1977, then moved to Durham University as Reader in Archaeology in 1990, where he taught until moving to Leiden in 1999. In 1988 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Since 1978 he has been co-directing (with Cambridge University) the Boeotia Project, an interdisciplinary program investigating the evolution of settlement in Central Greece. He has published over 20 books.

Cyprian Broodbank is Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, co-director of the Kythera Island Project, and author of The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World (London and New York: Thames and Hudson and Oxford University Press, 2013).

Brian A. Catlos is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Research Associate of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He works on ethno-religious identity, minority-majority relations, and the economic, social, and institutional history of the Medieval Christian and Islamic Mediterranean. See www.brianacatlos.com.

Fredric Cheyette is Emeritus Professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught from 1963 to 2005. He is the author of Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001), and “The Disappearance of the Ancient Landscape and the Climatic Anomaly of the Early Middle Ages” in Early Medieval Europe, 16 (2008). He has worked on the history of the medieval landscape since the 1970s.

Maria Couroucli (MA Cantab., PhD EHESS Paris, HDR Paris Ouest Nanterre) is Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et Sociologie Comparative, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) and Director of Modern Studies at the Ecole française d’Athènes (Greece). She has co-edited (with Dionigi Albera) Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2012).

Nicholas Doumanis teaches history at the University of New South Wales. His books include Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean: Remembering Fascism’s Empire (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997) and Before the Nation: Muslim-Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in Late-Ottoman Anatolia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). He is working on a history of the eastern Mediterranean in the Wiley-Blackwell History of the World series.

Steven A. Epstein is the Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor of Medieval History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of numerous works on Genoa and the wider Mediterranean and European contexts, including most recently The Medieval Discovery of Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Ruthy Gertwagen is Senior Lecturer in Maritime History and Marine Archaeology at Haifa University and Oranim Academic College of the Byzantine and Medieval Mediterranean. Her research and publications focus on: Venice and its maritime empire; the Byzantine Empire; ships and shipping; trade and warfare; navigation; ports and port towns; and marine environmental history.

Tehmina Goskar runs a heritage consultancy in Penzance, Cornwall, UK. She is also Research Associate at Swansea University. Her areas of research are on medieval to modern material culture and industry, particularly textiles and metals. She has published on Mediterranean material culture, industrial heritage and historical copper.

Molly Greene is Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000) and Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Mediterranean (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010).

Michael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, where has taught since 1991. His research in Greece, Italy, and Thailand has addressed the social and political impact of historic conservation and gentrification, the dynamics of nationalism, gender, and bureaucracy, and the ethnography of knowledge among artisans and intellectuals.

Cecily J. Hilsdale is Assistant Professor of Art History at McGill University in Montreal, and specializes in the arts of Byzantium and the wider Mediterranean world. Her research focuses on diplomacy and cultural exchange, in particular the circulation of Byzantine luxury items as diplomatic gifts as well as the related dissemination of eastern styles, techniques, iconographies and ideologies of imperium. She is the author of Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Ray A. Kea is Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, where he has taught African and World History since 1991. He received his doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Sharon Kinoshita is Professor of Literature and co-director of the Center for Mediterranean Studies (mediterraneanseminar.org) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 2006) and numerous essays in medieval French, Mediterranean, and world literatures (ucsc.academia.edu/SharonKinoshita).

Karla Mallette is Professor of Italian and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. She is author of European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) and co-editor of A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013).

Elizabeth Ann Pollard is Associate Professor of History at San Diego State University, where she teaches courses in Roman history, historiography of witchcraft, and world history. She has published articles exploring images of witches in Roman art, Roman-Indian trade, and the impact of world historical models on traditional Greek and Roman history. She is currently working on a book entitled Women and Witchcraft Accusation in the Roman World.

Nicholas Purcell has been Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford since 2011. He works on ancient, especially Roman, social, cultural and economic history. He is joint author, with Peregrine Horden, of The Corrupting Sea (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), and has also worked on a number of other aspects of Mediterranean history.

Valerie Ramseyer is Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College. Her main field of research is the history of southern Italy and Sicily in the early and central Middle Ages. In 2006 she published a book with Cornell University Press entitled The Transformation of a Religious Landscape: Medieval Southern Italy, 850–1150.

Youval Rotman is senior lecturer in history at Tel Aviv University and is a social historian of the Eastern Mediterranean world of the first millennium. His research ascribes a central role to the social and cultural processes in this region under Roman and Byzantine rule. In this framework he has worked on slavery, captives and redeeming of captives, child labor, religious conversion, and...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.1.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to World History
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• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Europäische Geschichte • Europäische Geschichte • European History • Geschichte • History • Mediterranean Sea, ancient history, historiography, European history, Islamic history, prehistory, anthropology, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Italy, Morocco, North Africa, thalassocracy, cultural hybridity, world history • Mittelmeer • Mittelmeerländer /Geschichte • Mittelmeerländer /Geschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-118-51933-7 / 1118519337
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-51933-2 / 9781118519332