Rethinking the Mediterranean

Edited by W. V. Harris

Draws internationally renowned scholars from a range of disciplines into a vigorous dialogue
Subjects the currently popular topic of Mediterranean studies to a fresh critical gaze

Rethinking the Mediterranean

Edited by W. V. Harris

Description

In this collection of essays, an international group of renowned scholars attempt to establish the theoretical basis for studying the ancient and medieval history of the Mediterranean Sea and the lands around it. In so doing they range far afield to other Mediterraneans, real and imaginary, as distant as Brazil and Japan. Their work is an essential tool for understanding the Mediterranean, pre-modern and modern alike. It speaks to ancient and medieval historians, to archaeologists, anthropologists and all historians with environmental interests, and not least to classicists.

Rethinking the Mediterranean

Edited by W. V. Harris

1. The Mediterranean and ancient history, W. V. Harris
The Big Canvas
2. Practical Mediterraneanism, Michael Herzfeld
3. Mediterraneans, David Abulafia
4. Ecology and beyond: the Mediterranean paradigm, Alain Bresson
Angles of Vision
5. The eastern Mediterranean in early antiquity, Marc Van De Mieroop
6. Ritual dynamics in the eastern Mediterranean: case studies in ancient Greece and Asis Minor, Angelos Chaniotis
7. The east-west orientation of Mediterranean studies and the meaning of North and South in antiquity, G. W. Bowersock
8. Travel sickness: medicine and mobility in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the Renaissance, Peregrine Horden
9. The ancient Mediterranean: the view from the customs-house, Nicholas Purcell
The Archaeology of Knowledge
10. Travel and experience in the Mediterranean of Louis XV, Christopher Drew Armstrong
11. The mirage of Greek continuity: on the uses and abuses of analogy in some travel narratives from the 17th to the 18th centuries, Suzanne Said
12. Mediterranean recaption in the Americas, Francisco Marshall
13. Alphabet soup in the Mediterranean basin: the emergence of the Mediterranean serial, Susan E. Alcock
Last Words
14. Egypt and the concept of the Mediterranean, Roger S. Bagnall
15. Four years of `Corruption': a response to critics, Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell

Rethinking the Mediterranean

Edited by W. V. Harris

Author Information

W. V. Harris is Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University.

Contributors:

David Abulafia, Professor of Mediterranean History, University of Cambridge
Susan E. Alcock, John H. D'Arms Collegiate Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Michigan
Christopher Drew Armstrong, post-doctoral fellow, Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto
Roger S. Bagnall, Professor, History and Classics Department, Columbia University
Glen Bowersock, Professor of Ancient History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Alain Bresson, Professor of Ancient History, University Michel-de-Montagne, Bordeaux
W. V. Harris, Shepherd Professor of History, Columbia University
Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Peregrine Horden, Reader in Medieval History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Francisco Marshall, Associate Professor of Ancient History, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Nicholas Purcell, Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, St John's College, Oxford
Suzanne Said, Professor of Classics, Columbia University
Marc Van De Mieroop, Professor, Departments of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures and of History, Columbia University