Mediterranean Flows: People, Ideas and Objects in Motion

Edited by Anna Usacheva and Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz.

This issue takes an inclusive approach to the multidimensional topic of Mediterranean movement, as the themes to be discussed include migration, trade, travelling objects, knowledge exchange, and dissemination of books. The case studies demonstrate the impact of movement on the processes of identity building, whether social, cultural, or religious. Apart from textual sources, the nine articles included in this issue explore the movement of objects that are characterised by temporal continuity, embodying a prior existence with lingering effects. As objects transform through time and space, so do the values and functions attributed to them. The process of mapping out itineraries of value in the realm of the material allows us to grasp the nature of a given social formation through the shape and meaning taken on by them. It also provides insights into the nature of dynamic synergy between the world of material objects and the realm of beliefs, knowledge, and identities. -- From the content: 1. Greg Woolf: The Roman Mediterranean as a Fluid System; - 2. David Inglis: The World Flows with Mediterranean Wine: On the Roles of Mare Nostrum in Global Wine Dynamics; - 3. Antti J. Lampinen: Condemning Mobility: Nativist and Exclusionist Rhetoric in the Second-Century "Sophistic" Discourse on Human Movement; - 4. James Gerrard: Travelling Britannia: A Diachronic Perspective on Romano-British Mobility; - 5. Pieter B. Hartog: Reading Acts in Motion: Movement and Glocalisation in the Acts of the Apostles; - 6. Sigurvin Lárus Jónsson: Sabbath as a Temporal Marker in Luke-Acts; - 7. Samuel Fernández: Words and Concepts in Motion: Hilary of Poitiers between East and West; - 8. Anna Usacheva: Educational and Ritual Aspects of Reading and Publishing Practices from the Greek Philosophical Schools to Latin Monasticism; - 9. Jessica van't Westeinde: Miles Make the Mind: Jerome on Travel, Learning, and Knowledge Exchange. XIX,214 Seiten, gebunden (Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology; Vol. 3/Brill | Schöningh 2023) Mängelexemplarstempel auf Schnitt, Schnitt etwas bestoßen und angeschmutzt/defect copy stamp on cut, cut somewhat bumped and soiled