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• Diplomatic Entanglements: Mediating Objects and Transcultural Encounters
• Mobile Things/Mobile Motifs: Ornament, Language, and Haptic Space
• The Peregrinations of Porcelain: From Mobility to Frames
• Fit for the Gods: Porcelain in Alfonso d'Este's camerini
• From the Silk Roads to the Court Apothecary: Aromatics and Receptacles
• Conclusion: Arresting Mobility.

"In Courtly Mediators, Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese porcelain, and aromatics, across the early modern Italian, Mamluk, and Ottoman courts. She provides a new narrative that places Aragonese Naples at the center of an international courtly culture, where cosmopolitanism and the transcultural flourished, and in which artists, ambassadors, and luxury goods actively participated. By articulating how and why transcultural objects were exchanged, displayed, copied, and framed, she provides a new methodological framework that transforms our understanding of the Italian Renaissance court. Clark's volume provides a multi-sensorial, innovative reading of Italian Renaissance art. It demonstrates that the early modern culture of collecting was more than a humanistic enterprise associated with the European roots of the Renaissance. Rather, it was sustained by interactions with global material cultures from the Islamic world and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

• Diplomatic Entanglements: Mediating Objects and Transcultural Encounters
• Mobile Things/Mobile Motifs: Ornament, Language, and Haptic Space
• The Peregrinations of Porcelain: From Mobility to Frames
• Fit for the Gods: Porcelain in Alfonso d'Este's camerini
• From the Silk Roads to the Court Apothecary: Aromatics and Receptacles
• Conclusion: Arresting Mobility.

"In Courtly Mediators, Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese porcelain, and aromatics, across the early modern Italian, Mamluk, and Ottoman courts. She provides a new narrative that places Aragonese Naples at the center of an international courtly culture, where cosmopolitanism and the transcultural flourished, and in which artists, ambassadors, and luxury goods actively participated. By articulating how and why transcultural objects were exchanged, displayed, copied, and framed, she provides a new methodological framework that transforms our understanding of the Italian Renaissance court. Clark's volume provides a multi-sensorial, innovative reading of Italian Renaissance art. It demonstrates that the early modern culture of collecting was more than a humanistic enterprise associated with the European roots of the Renaissance. Rather, it was sustained by interactions with global material cultures from the Islamic world and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• The historical context
• Wool from trees : cotton
• The golden grain : Asiatic rice
• Persian apples : citruses
• Familiar but foreign : eastern cucurbits
• The Egyptian bean : the sacred lotus
• A forgotten tuber : taro
• Timber for god and king : Sissoo
• How to turn tropical

• Introduction
• Tyre
• Carthage
• Syracuse
• Ravenna
• Antioch
• Conclusion.

"Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures. Here, history has blurred with legend. The glittering surface of the sea conceals the remnants of lost civilisations, wrecked treasure ships and the bones of long-drowned sailors, traders and modern refugees. Of the many cities that dot this ancient coastline, Tyre, Carthage, Syracuse, Ravenna and Antioch are among the oldest and most intriguing. All are beautifully situated, and for layers of history and cultural riches they are rivalled only by their sister cities of Rome, Istanbul and Jerusalem. Yet their fates have been remarkably different. Once major power centres, all five have declined into relative obscurity. Nevertheless, their entwined history takes in Alexander the Great, Nebuchadnezzar, Archimedes and the Roman, Byzantine, Arab and Norman conquests, and their greatness still lingers for those who seek it out. To bring these mysterious lost capitals to life, historian Katherine Pangonis sets out on a voyage from the dawn of civilisation on the Lebanese coast to a modern-day Turkey wracked by the devastation of the 2023 earthquake. Combining on the ground research with spellbinding storytelling skills, here is a revelatory new story of the Mediterranean, and a powerful reflection on the sometimes fleeting glory of empires"-- Publisher's description.

• Introduction: A Neighborhood Perspective on Byzantine Cities
• Benjamin Anderson and Fotini Kondyli
• Part I: Defining Byzantine Neighborhoods
• 1. The View from Byzantine Texts
• Albrecht Berger
• 2. The View from Byzantine Archaeology
• Fotini Kondyli
• Part II: Byzantine Neighborhoods as Social Spaces
• 3. Who is the Person Living Next Door? Neighborly Relations in Early Byzantine Assos
• Beate Boehlendorf-Arslan
• 4. Urban Space and Collective Action in Late Antique Arisnoe
• Amy Papalexandrou, William Caraher, and R. Scott Moore
• 5. Water and Social Relationships in Early Byzantine Neighborhoods
• Jordan Pickett
• Part III: Byzantine Neighborhoods as Political Agents
• 6. The Oxeia: A Neighborhood Biography
• Benjamin Anderson
• 7. Gortyn, Eleutherna, and Their Neighborhoods: The Politics of Transformation (4th-Early 9th Centuries)
• Christina Tsigonaki
• 8. A Tale of Two Cities: Thebes and Chalcis in a World of Change (9th-15th Centuries)
• Nikos D. Kontogiannis
• 9. Privacy, Friendship, and Social Regulation in Byzantine Neighborhoods
• Leonora Neville.
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The Byzantine Neighbourhood contributes to a new narrative regarding Byzantine cities through the adoption of a neighbourhood perspective. It offers a multi-disciplinary investigation of the spatial and social practices that produced Byzantine concepts of neighbourhood and afforded dynamic interactions between different actors, elite and non-elite. Authors further consider neighbourhoods as political entities, examining how varieties of collectivity formed in Byzantine neighbourhoods translated into political action. By both acknowledging the unique position of Constantinople, and giving serious attention to the varieties of provincial experience, the contributors consider regional factors (social, economic, and political) that formed the ties of local communities to the state and illuminate the mechanisms of empire. Beyond its Byzantine focus, this volume contributes to broader discussions of premodern urbanism by drawing attention to the spatial dimension of social life and highlighting the involvement of multiple agents in city-making.
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• Introduction. Writing the history of the Zirids and Normans
• Geographic orientations and the rise of the Fatimids
• The contest for Sicily in the eleventh century
• Commerce and conflict from 1087 to 1123
• The end of the emirate and the beginning of the kingdom
• The Norman kingdom of Africa
• The fall of Norman Africa and the legacy of Zirid-Norman interactions.

"This book examines the interconnected histories of the Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily during the Middle Ages. In doing so, it shows the substantial economic, political, and cultural connections between them as well as the larger importance of the Zirids to the history of the medieval Mediterranean."-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Writing the History of the Zirids and Normans
• 1. Geographic Orientations and the Rise of the Fatimids
• 2. The Contest for Sicily in the Eleventh Century
• 3. Commerce and Conflict from 1087 to 1123
• 4. The End of the Emirate and the Beginning of the Kingdom
• 5. The Norman Kingdom of Africa
• 6. The Fall of Norman Africa and the Legacy of Zirid-Norman Interactions Epilogue.
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Dynasties Intertwined traces the turbulent relationship between the Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In doing so, it reveals the complex web of economic, political, cultural, and military connections that linked the two dynasties to each other and to other polities across the medieval Mediterranean. Furthermore, despite the contemporary interfaith holy wars happening around the Zirids and Normans, their relationship was never governed by an overarching ideology like jihad or crusade. Instead, both dynasties pursued policies that they thought would expand their power and wealth, either through collaboration or conflict. The relationship between the Zirids and Normans ultimately came to a violent end in the 1140s, when a devastating drought crippled Ifriqiya. The Normans seized this opportunity to conquer lands across the Ifriqiyan coast, bringing an end to the Zirid dynasty and forming the Norman kingdom of Africa, which persisted until the Almohad conquest of Mahdia in 1160. Previous scholarship on medieval North Africa during the reign of the Zirids has depicted the region as one of instability and political anarchy that rendered local lords powerless in the face of foreign conquest. Matt King shows that, to the contrary, the Zirids and other local lords in Ifriqiya were integral parts of the far-reaching political and economic networks across the Mediterranean. Despite the eventual collapse of the Zirid dynasty at the hands of the Normans, Dynasties Intertwined makes clear that its emirs were active and consequential Mediterranean players for much of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, with political agency independent of their Christian neighbors across the Strait of Sicily.
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• Introduction : Evidence Combined : Western and Eastern Sources in Dialogue / Raija Mattila, Sebastian Fink
• Politics and Hybrid Identities : The Greek Theatre in Hellenistic Babylon / Claudia Horst
• Two obols for the fare across the Styx : Concepts of the deceased's journey to the underworld in Greece and Mesopotamia / Monika Schuol
• Planets, Palaces and Empire : Herodotus on Deioces and Ecbatana (Hdt. 1.98-99) / Julian Degen
• The Mazarrón 1 Shipwreck : Construction Details, Original Function and Cultural Affiliation of an Iron Age Boat from the Iberian Peninsula / Carlos Cabrera Tejedor
• Continuity and variability in funerary practices in the Eastern and Western Phoenician world / Barbara Mura
• Trade and exchange between Phoenicia and Greece : the early pottery evidence / May Haider
• Textiles from Mesopotamia to Greece : (3rd millennium BCE : 3rd century CE) / Mary Harlow and Cécile Michel
• Dress, Gender and Social Status : Considerations on Garments in Mari (Syria, 25-24th centuries BCE) / Barbara Couturaud
• Nude Females and Girded Men : Clothes and Gender in Akkadian Literature / Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel
• What to Wear? : Dress-codes in Ancient Greek Sanctuaries / Cecilie Brøns
• Lydia, Phrygia and the Cimmerians : Mesopotamian and Greek evidence combined / Mait Kõiv
• Gyges Between East and West / Adam Howe
• The Great Conflict over the Levant (612-562 BC) and its consequences for the Greeks / Liviu Mihail lancu
• Between wealth and politics : Arsames, the prince, satrap and estate-holder / Hilmar Klinkott
• Reflecting on borders and interconnections in the Mediterranean World : a brief reconsideration of methodological approaches / Simonetta Ponchia
• Epigraphic habit in Western Asia Minor and in the Levant / Krzysztof Nawotka, Piotr Głogowski
• Comparing laments for the fallen city in the ancient Near Eastern and Greek traditions / Simone Oppen
• A Comparison of Dissimilarity : Lunar Eclipses in the Enuma Anu Enlil and the Malhama of Daniel / Selim Ferruh Adali
• Jerusalem in the Light of Athens or the Missing Link to the Formation of the Pentateuch / Stéphanie Anthonioz
• Nectanebo II of Greek and Egyptian sources / Agnieszka Wojciechowska

• Introduction: Polyrhythmia
• 1. Sequence
• 2. Rupture
• 3. Flux
• 4. Unrest Conclusion: Arrhythmia.
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This volume fluctuates between conceptualizations of movement; either movements that buildings in the medieval Mediterranean facilitated, or the movements of the users and audiences of architecture. From medieval Anatolia to Southern France and the Genoese colony of Pera across Constantinople, The Fluctuating Sea investigates how the relationship between movement and the experiences of a multiplicity of users with different social backgrounds can provide a new perspective on architectural history. The book acknowledges the shared characteristics of medieval Mediterranean architecture, but it also argues that for the majority of people inhabiting the fragmented microecologies of the Mediterranean, architecture was a highly localized phenomenon. It is the connectivity of such localized experiences that The Fluctuating Sea uncovers. The Fluctuating Sea is a valuable source for students and scholars of the medieval Mediterranean and architectural history.
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• Introduction, Claire Fauchon-Claudon & Marie-Adeline Le Guennec
• Pt. 1. Hospitalité et régulation : lois des hommes, lois des dieux
• Accueillir l'étranger en Mésopotamie : mythe et réalité de l'intégration, Francis Joannès
• L'accueil d'ambassades étrangères en Syrie et Mésopotamie à l'époque paléo-babylonienne, Pauline Leroy
• De l'hospitalité en territoire "barbare" : pistes de réflexion autour d'une pratique celtique peu connue, Sandra Péré-Noguès
• Les Sidoniens de Sichem, le Garizim, la xénia et Antiochos IV (175-164 a.C.), Gilles Gorre
• Hospitalité et hiérarchies dans le judaïsme d'époque romaine, lvfaureen Attali
• Louer l'hospitalité des évêques dans l'Antiquité tardive en Gaule : entre traditions et nouvelles exigences chrétiennes, Éric Morvillez
• Pt. 2. Acteurs et actrices de l'hospitalité : réguler les accueillis, réguler les accueillants
• Les relations d'hospitalité entre aristocrates romains et notables locaux à la fin de la République dans le corpus cicéronien : valeurs et normes, Robinson Baudry
• Sthenius de Thermes, hôte exemplaire des Romains dans la Sicile du 1e s. a.C., Élizabeth Deniaux
• The hospitium militare : A Late Antique Overview, Sylvain Destephen
• Femmes, hospitalité et évergétisme : l'humilité épigraphique, conséquence d'une régulation par le genre dans la Jérusalem tardo-antique ?, Konstantin Klein
• Hommes saints et femmes laïques : règles d'hospitalité et de piété dans l'Antiquité tardive au Proche-Orient, Marlena Whiting
• Pt. 3. Hospitalité et rencontre avec l'altérité : confrontations, négociations et contournements
• S'informer et négocier auprès des Perses. L'impossible régulation par les cités des liens d'hospitalité enre Grecs et Perses d'après Xénophon, Marie Durnerin
• Eadem condicione esses une f6rmula jundica clave en los pactos de hospitalidad de Hispanie, Paloma Battit ? : Chamorro
• Sauve qui peut ! Ou comment (tenter de) contourner l'obligation de loger les officiels romains dans les provinces de l'empire, Nicola Zwingmann
• Pouvoir, hospitalité et refus d'hospitalité dans les communautés chrétiennes au tournant du Ir s. p.C., Jonathan Cornillon
• International Political Hospitality and Non-Hospitality in Late Antiquity : High-Profile Strangers between Asylum and Extradition, Ekaterina Nechaeva
• Pt. 4. La régulation de l'hospitalité dans sa matérialité : objets et lieux
• Charité bien ordonnée. Les établissements d'accueil et de soins de la fin de l'Antiquité en Orient Pauline Piraud-Fournet
• Hospitalité le long des routes dans l'Italie au haut Moyen Âge : un principe de régulation multiscalaire, Eleonora Destefanis
• Expressions de l'hospitalité dans les arts de l'Afrique subsaharienne, Alexandre Girard-Muscagorry & Marie Perrier
• Strangers on the way : hospitalité, identité et défis lors des voyages à la fin de l'Antiquité, Cristina Corsi.

"Cet ouvrage est le fruit d'un colloque international organisé à Lyon (ENS de Lyon, U. Lumière Lyon 2 et Jean Moulin Lyon 3) les 5, 6 et 7 septembre zoi8, dans le cadre d'un programme de recherche développé par les éditrices depuis 2015 à l'ENS de Lyon (projet collectif HospitAm, Hospitalités dans [Antiquité méditerranéenne). Il propose, en vingt contributions, un regard global sur une pratique culturelle partagée par les différentes civilisations du bassin méditerranéen antique : l'hospitalité. L'hospitalité se définit comme un accueil non stipendié, incluant le gîte et le couvert et survenant souvent en contexte de mobilité. Mais bien plus qu'un recours pour le voyageur en quête d'hébergement, l'hospitalité constitue dans l'Antiquité méditerranéenne une relation sociale à part entière, encadrant les rapports avec l'autre", que les sociétés anciennes associent communément à la figure de l'étranger. C'est donc le rôle fondamental de l'hospitalité dans l'"épreuve d'altérité" provoquée par la "sédentarité temporairement ou durablement quittée" (A. Gotman) que ce livre entend analyser, de la Mésopotamie du deuxième millénaire a.C. à l'Italie de l'Antiquité tardive. Dans ce but, cet ouvrage propose d'étudier l'hospitalité par le prisme du concept de régulation. Empruntée aux sciences sociales, la régulation invite à penser cette forme d'accueil en tant que mécanisme permettant aux sociétés du bassin méditerranéen antique de gérer l'intégration, la mise à distance ou le rejet d'un individu ou d'un groupe allogène, pour rétablir l'équilibre que son arrivée avait contribué à troubler. Quatre axes d'étude parcourent notre enquête : l'analyse des lois, codes et règles de l'hospitalité antique ; la manière dont ces dispositifs sont mis en pratique par les acteurs, accueillis comme accueillants ; les tentatives de négociation et de contournement dont ils ont pu faire l'objet ; enfin, la régulation de et par l'hospitalité dans sa matérialité. Des ouvertures comparatistes permettent de prolonger pour d'autres contextes civilisationnels l'étude de cette fonction de régulation de l'altérité, qui semble pouvoir être considérée comme un invariant de l'hospitalité humaine."--Page 4 of cover.

• Preface
• List of Figures and Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests: An Introduction
• Josephine van den Bent , Floris van den Eijnde and Johan Weststeijn
• 2 The Qur'anic Rum: A Late Antique Perspective
• Clare Wilde
• 3 Wine and Impurity in the Sura of the Bees: A Structuralist Interpretation of Qur'an 16:67
• Johan Weststeijn
• 4 Historical-Critical Research of the S i ra of the Prophet Muhammad: What Do We Stand to Gain?
• Harald Motzki
• 5 Arabicization, Islamization, and the Colonies of the Conquerors
• Kevin van Bladel
• 6 Continuity and Change: Elite Responses to the Founding of the Caliphate
• Peter Webb
• 7 Muhammad's World in Egypt
• Petra M . Sijpesteijn
• 8 "May God be Mindful of Yazid the King": Further Reflections on the Yazid Inscription and the Development of Arabic Scripts
• Ahmad Al-Jallad
• 9 Of Siblings, Kingdoms, and the Days of the Messiah: Jewish Literary Responses to the New Order in the Land of Israel in the First Muslim Period
• Constanza Cordoni
• 10 New Light on the Dark Ages: A Byzantine Perspective on the Arab Expansion
• Joanita Vroom
• Index.
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Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests is a showcase of new discoveries in an exciting and rapidly developing field: the study of the transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam. The contributors to this volume engage with previously neglected sources, such as Arabic rock inscriptions, papyri and Byzantine archaeological remains. They also apply new interpretative methods to the literary tradition, reading the Qur'an as a late antique text, using Arabic poetry as a source to study the gestation of an Arab identity, and extracting settlement patterns of the Arabian colonizers in order to explain regional processes of Arabicization and Islamization. This volume shows how the Arab conquests changed both the Arabian conquerors and the conquered.
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• Introduction
• Ancient sculptures lost at sea
• Interpreting the maritime transport and underwater deposition of ancient sculptures in the Mediterranean Sea
• Aims, objectives and research questions of the project
• Structure of this book
• Primary sources and literature review
• Introduction
• Ancient sources and historical records on the maritime transport and underwater deposition of sculptures
• The underwater deposition of the 'Arundel collection'
• The Mentor shipwreck
• The HMS Colossus shipwreck
• The SS Castor shipwreck
• The history of discovering ancient sculptures underwater
• Approaches to the study of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures from under water
• Conclusion
• Methodology of the research
• Introduction
• The importance of archaeological contexts in the study of sculptures from the waters of the Mediterranean Sea
• Macro-scale research
• Micro-scale research
• Conclusion
• The database for the maritime transport of sculptures in the ancient Mediterranean
• Introduction
• Geographical distribution of underwater deposits
• Chronological distribution of underwater deposits
• Types of sculptures transported by sea
• Possible reasons and patterns of transport
• The packing and stowing of sculptures on board ancient merchant vessels
• Conclusion
• Revisiting the Porticello shipwreck
• Introduction
• History of the discovery and research
• The ship remains
• The shipboard artefacts and the non-sculptural cargo
• The sculptures
• Interpreting the maritime transport of sculptures
• Conclusion
• The Favaritx shipwreck and the maritime transport of bronze sculptures as scrap
• Introduction
• Discovery and previous study of the Favaritx shipwreck
• The sculptural artefacts
• The non-sculptural artefacts
• Interpreting the maritime transport of the Favaritx ship
• Conclusion
• The Mahdia shipwreck: reconsidering old data, making new observations
• Introduction
• Discovery and previous research
• Re-evaluating the Mahdia shipwreck material
• The ship remains
• The sculptural artefacts
• The other non-sculptural artefacts
• Interpreting the maritime transport of the Mahdia ship
• Conclusion
• Discussion
• Introduction
• Where were sculptures transported by sea in the ancient Mediterranean?
• When were sculptures transported by sea in the ancient Mediterranean?
• Why were sculptures transported by sea in the ancient Mediterranean?
• How were sculptures transported by sea in the ancient Mediterranean?
• The maritime transport of sculptures in retrospect
• Conclusion
• Results of the research
• Future directions
• References
• Appendix 1 (Online) Database
• Appendix 2 (Online) Finds not included in the Database
• Index.
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The Maritime Transport of Sculptures in the Ancient Mediterranean examines where, when, why and how sculptures were transported on the Mediterranean Sea during Classical Antiquity through the lenses of both maritime and classical archaeology. From the 16th century onwards numerous ancient sculptures have been discovered in the Mediterranean from the context of surveyed shipwrecks, unrecorded potential shipwrecks or as isolated finds. Scholars so far have analysed those sculptural artefacts from an art historical perspective, with interpretation of their maritime transportation remaining conjectural due to the problematic recording and the remoteness of their underwater context. With a focus on the underwater context of already retrieved sculptures, this book aims at comprehending in detail the various circumstances under which ancient sculptural artefacts were carried on board ancient merchant ships and were consequently deposited underwater. Through the creation of an extensive Mediterranean-wide database, with more than 100 known incidents of ancient sculptures found underwater, and the in-depth analysis of three case studies, the Porticello, Mahdia and Favaritx shipwrecks, a new interpretation is presented for this maritime activity. Thereby, new details for the maritime transport and distribution of sculptures during the period of Classical Antiquity are revealed. Finally, the volume demonstrates the importance of the thorough recording of underwater archaeological evidence in the hope of raising awareness and eliminating the salvage of ancient sculptures out of their underwater context, a practice that has been encouraging the illicit trade of such antiquities.
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• The Names of Osiris in the Litany of the So-Called Spell 141/142 of the Book of the Dead in Ancient Egypt / Giuseppina Lenzo
• Divine Epithets as Perspectival Discourse / Mark S. Smith
• Nomina nuda tenemus: The God Elyon (ʻlyn) / Anna Elise Zernecke
• Naming and Mapping the Gods in Cyprus: a Matter of Scales? / Corinne Bonnet
• Regional Loyalties in the Iliad: The Cases of Zeus, Apollo, and Athena / Mary R. Bachvarova
• Agrotera: Situating Artemis in Her Landscapes / Massimo Giuseppetti
• πολύθεοι ἕδραι: Terms for Spatio-Cultic Relationships in Greek / Emrys Schlatter
• Les épiclèses toponymiques comme outil interprétatif chez Hérodote : quelques exemples / Fabrizio Gaetano
• ΚΥΠΡΙΣ. Ovvero l'interpretazione degli epiteti divini nel Περὶ θεῶν di Apollodoro di Atene (244 FGrHist 353) / Andrea Filoni
• Place Names as Divine Epithets in Pausanias / José Marcos Macedo
• Artemis and Her Territory: Toponymic and Topographical Cult-Epithets of Artemis in Attica / Micaela Canopoli
• Alla ricerca della "Buona Fama": Eukleia tra epiclesi di Artemide e teonimo indipendente / Alessio Sassù
• Insights into the Cult of Apollo and Artemis at the Parian Sanctuaries / Erica Angliker
• Founders, Leaders, or Ancestors? Ἀρχηγέτης/-ις: Variations on a Name / Claudio Biagetti
• Zeus « qui-règne-sur Dodone (Hom., Il. 16.233-234) » et ses épigones. Les attributs onomastiques construits sur medeôn, -ousa + toponyme / Sylvain Lebreton
• The Quadruviae: Cult Mobility and Social Agency in the Northern Provinces of the Roman Empire / Audrey Ferlut
• Naming the Gods in Roman Sicily: The Case of Enguium / Beatrice Lietz
• Khnoum d'Éléphantine et Isis de Philae : la lutte pour le contrôle de la première cataracte du Nil et du Dodécaschène / Audrey Eller
• From High to Low: Reflections about the Emplacement of Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia / Nicola Laneri
• A New Mobilities Approach to Naming and Mapping Deities: Presence, Absence, and Distance at Kuntillet 'Ajrud / Eric M. Trinka
• Entre espace et puissance : le séjour des morts et la persistance de structures polythéistes dans la Bible hébraïque / Hélène Grosjean, Christophe Nihan
• Death at the Centre of Life: Some Notes on Gods and the Dead, Temples and Tombs in the Phoenician Context / Giuseppe Garbati
• In and Out What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Role of Liminality in the Phoenician Rites / Ida Oggiano
• Graeco-Phoenician Figurines in Phoenicia. A Medley of Imports, Derivatives, Imitations, and Hybrids / Barbara Bolognani
• The Gods of the Others: Images of Foreign Deities in the Hellenistic Cult Place of Kharayeb / Marianna Castiglione
• Remarques sur le rôle du sel dans les pratiques votives de Kition : un exemple d'interaction entre les figurines divines et leur milieu / Pauline Maillard
• On Gods and Caves: Comparing Cave-Sanctuaries in the Ancient Western Mediterranean / Adriano Orsingher
• Between Astarte, Isis and Aphrodite/Venus. Cultural Dynamics in the Coastal Cities of Sardinia in the Roman Age: The Case Study of Nora / Romina Carboni
• Déplacements, mobilité, communication. Quelques réflexions sur le mode d'action d'Iris dans la poésie archaïque / Ombretta Cesca
• Spatialité, performance, choralité divines et humaines : les Charites de Pindare et Bacchylide / Michel Briand
• Linking Centre and Periphery: Nymphs and Their Cultic Space in Euripides, Electra 803-843 / Doralice Fabiano
• La plebs des dieux. Réflexions sur la hiérarchie et la spatialité des dieux romains / Francesca Prescendi
• A Contest for the Control of Ideological Space in Ovid's Metamorphoses XI 146-94: Apollo/Augustus, Pan, and an Allegory of the Romanization of Hellenistic Lydia / Gabriele Roccella
• The Gods at Play: Mapping the Divine at the Amphitheatres in Hispania / Jaime Alvar Ezquerra
• Spaces of Reinvented Religious Traditions in the Danubian Provinces / Csaba Szabó
• Where Did the Gods Speak? A Proposal for (Re)defining "Oracular Sanctuaries" on the Basis of Anatolian Data of the Hellenistic and Roman Period / Kevin Bouillot
• Akhenaten and His Aten Cult in Abydos and Akhmim / Briana C. Jackson
• Nippur: City of Enlil and Ninurta / Bernhard Schneider
• Urban Religion in First Millennium BCE Babylonia / Rocío Da Riva
• Hatra of Shamash. How to assign the city under the divine power? / Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider
• Un réseau de rapports symboliques. Santuari, territorio e pratiche collettive nella Sparta arcaica / Lucio Maria Valletta
• Spatializing 'Divine Newcomers' in Athens / Sabine Neumann
• L'articulation de l'espace religieux et de l'espace civique : l'exemple du sanctuaire de Zeus sur l'agora de Thasos / Natacha Trippé
• Squaring Nemesis: Alexander's Dream, the Oracle, and the Foundation of the New Smyrna / Daniela Bonanno
• Gods in the City / Jörg Rüpke
• « Religious Ancient Placemaking » : une nouvelle approche méthodologique pour l'évaluation des religions à l'époque antique / Asuman Lätzer-Lasar
• Cybele and Attis from the Phrygian Crags to the City. History, Places and Forms of the Cult of Magna Mater in Rome / Fulvio Coletti, Francesca Diosono
• La ritualisation des territoires ibériques : les sanctuaires urbains de l'Âge du Fer / Angélique Guigner
• Jumping Among the Temples: Early Christian Critique of Polytheism's "Spatial Fix" / Emiliano R. Urciuoli
• The Space of "Paganism" in the Early Medieval City: Rome's Polytheistic Past along the Real and Imaginary Topography of the Pilgrims' Paths / Nicola Luciani
• Que faut-il pour faire un sanctuaire ? / Philippe Boissinot.

• Pierre Brulé, Avant-propos - Les dieux, bon, d'accord, mais y a pas que... Hiéros surpris en quelques-unes de ses aventures
• Pt. 1. Oubli, (re)construction, survivances : la malléabilité de la mémoire religieuse
• L'île Sacrée des rois Ptolémées, un lieu de mémoire oublié
• Les mécanismes de définition des identités culturelles dans une zone frontalière. Le cas des sanctuaires naturels de l'Émilie occidentale
• Mémoire(s) d'oppidum en Gaule narbonnaise
• La mémoire magnifiée du culte dans les judaiimes d'après 70
• Pt. 2. Jeux d'échelles : expression religieuse des identités individuelles et collectives
• La mémoire dans la peau. Les vestigia entre identité du "je" et pratiques religieuses collectives dans les provinces romaines d'Afrique du Nord
• Mémoire royale et identité héroïque dans les épitaphes théréennes aux époques hellénistique et impériale
• "Eusébéia — piété et statues". Les bases de statues de Délos à l'oque hellénistique
• Genio uici canabarum et uicanorum canabensium. Pratiques religieuses et constructions identitaires autour des castra de Strasbourg
• Pt. 3. Piété civique et stratégies politiques
• Damia et Auxésia à Égine ou l'art de (bien) voler des statues. L'anamnèse, un déchiffiement de l'invisible
• Épithètes divines et enjeux mémoriels dans l'Athènes classique et hellénistique
• Rituel et mémoire féminine à Rome. Le cas d'Acca Larentia et de Tarpéia
• Conclusions : Pratiques religieuses, mémoire, identités : entre fluidité et complexité.

"Dans les mondes antiques comme pour d'autres périodes historiques, les liens du fait religieux avec le social et les conduites de vie constituent un thème privilégié de l'histoire culturelle. La religion a une fonction d'intégration et de socialisation en tant que cadre éthique et normatif déterminant l'action des individus et des communautés. Elle offre un cadre propice à la transmission de valeurs, de référents et de comportements constitutifs de la dynamique du souvenir culturel. Une perspective sur le long terme a été adoptée ici sur le rôle de la mémoire, dans un cadre élargi au monde gréco-romain. Cette dimension revêt une importance particulière, puisqu'elle engage à réfléchir à d'éventuelles évolutions ou transferts des pratiques. Il s'agit donc de scruter les efforts de mémoire dont nos sources témoignent dans la sphère des pratiques religieuses, en lien avec la construction des identités."--Page 4 of cover.

• List of Contributors Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Reading, Books, and Bookish Circles in the Ancient Mediterranean: An Introduction, Jonathan Norton (Heythrop College, University of London, UK) 2. The Social Stratification of Scribes and Readers in Greco-Roman Judaism, Lindsey A. Askin (University of Bristol, UK) 3. Aspects of Scripturality in the Community Rule (S): A Key to the History of Qumran Literature, Annette Steudel (Georg-August Universitat, Germany) 4. The Making of the Theme of Immortality in the Wisdom of Solomon, Ekaterina Matusova (Eberhard Karls University, Germany) 5. Bookish Circles? The Move toward the Use of Written Texts in Rabbinic Oral Culture, Catherine Hezser (SOAS, University of London, UK) 6. Sympotic Learning: Symposia Literature and Cultural Education, Sean A. Adams (University of Glasgow, UK) 7. Adult Teaching and Learning in Philosophical Schools: The Cases of Epictetus and Calvenus Taurus, Michael Trapp (King's College, UK) 8. The Lone Genius and the Docile Literati: How Bookish Were Paul's Churches?, Jonathan Norton (Heythrop College, University of London, UK) 9. Reading the New Testament in the Context of Other Texts: A Relevance Theory Perspective, Steve Smith (University of Chichester
• St Mellitus College, UK) 10. Divine Dissimulation and the Apostolic Vision of Acts, John Moxon, (University of Roehampton, UK) 11. Scriptural Literacy within the Corinthian Church: From the Corinthian Correspondence to 1 Clement, H. H. Drake Williams, III (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Belgium and University of the Free State, South Africa) 12. Libraries, Special Libraries, and John of Patmos, Garrick V. Allen, (University of Glasgow) Bibliography Index.
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By integrating conversations across disciplines, especially focusing on classical studies and Jewish and Christian studies, this volume addresses several imbalances in scholarship on reading and textual activity in the ancient Mediterranean. Contributors intentionally place Jewish, Christian, Roman, Greek and other reading circles back into their encompassing historical context, avoiding subdivisions along modern subject lines, divisions still bearing marks of cultural and ideological interests. In their examination, contributors avoid dwelling upon traditional methodological debates over orality vs. literacy and social classifications of literacy, instead turning their attention to the social-historical: groups of people, circles and networks, strata and class, scribal culture, material culture, epigraphic and papyrological evidence, functions and types of literacy and the social relationships that all of these entail. Overall, the volume contributes to an emerging and important interdisciplinary collaboration between specialists in ancient literacy, encouraging future discussion between two currently divided fields.
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• Part 1 Setting the Stage 1 Contextualizing the Study of Ecstatic Experience in Ancient Old World Societies 2 Not Only Ecstasy: Pouring New Concepts into Old Vessels 3 From Shamans to Sorcerers: Empirical Models for Defining Ritual Practices and Ecstatic Experience in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Societies
• Part 2 Psychoactive Substances Past and Present 4 Psychoactive Plants in the Ancient World: Observations of an Ethnobotanist 5 Ecstasy Meets Paleoethnobotany: Botanical Stimulants in Ancient Inner Asia 6 Caucasian Cocktails: The Early Use of Alcohol in "The Cradle of Wine" 7 Mind-altering Plants in Babylonian Medical Sources 8 Plant-based Potions and Ecstatic States in Hittite Rituals 9 Forbidden at Philae: Proscription of Aphrodisiac and Psychoactive Plants in Ptolemaic Egypt 10 The Ring-Kernoi and Psychotropic Substances
• Part 3 Ecstatic Experience and the Numinous 11 Beer, Beasts and Bodies: Shedding Boundaries in Bounded Spaces 12 Lament, Spectacle and Emotion in a Ritual for Ishtar 13 Writing for the Dead, Welcoming the Solar-Eye Goddess and Ecstatic Expression in Egyptian Religion 14 Altered States on Prepalatial Crete 15 Bodies in Ecstasy: Shamanic Elements in Minoan Religion 16 The Mycenaeans and Ecstatic Ritual Experience 17 Emotional Arousal, Sensory Deprivation and "Miraculous Healing" in the Cult of Asclepius 18 Ecstasy and Initiation in the Eleusinian Mysteries 19 Apolline and Dionysian Ecstasy at Delphi 20 Communing with the Spirits: Funeral Processions in Ancient Rome
• Part 4 Expressions of the Ecstatic Mind 21 Ecstatic Experience and Possession Disorders in Ancient Mesopotamia 22 Ghosts In and Outside the Machine: A Phenomenology of Intelligence, Psychic Possession and Prophetic Ecstasy in Ancient Mesopotamia 23 Ecstatic Speech in Ancient Mesopotamia 24 Ecstatic Experience: The Proto-Theme of a Near Eastern Glyptic Language Family 25 Understanding the Language of Trees: Ecstatic Experience and Interspecies Communication in Late Bronze Age Crete 26 Psychedelic Art and Ecstatic Visions in the Aegean 27 Sight as Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient Mediterranean.
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For millennia, people have universally engaged in ecstatic experience as an essential element in ritual practice, spiritual belief and cultural identification. This volume offers the first systematic investigation of its myriad roles and manifestations in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. The twenty-nine contributors represent a broad range of scholarly disciplines, seeking answers to fundamental questions regarding the patterns and commonalities of this vital aspect of the past. How was the experience construed and by what means was it achieved? Who was involved? Where and when were rites carried out? How was it reflected in pictorial arts and written records? What was its relation to other components of the sociocultural compact? In proposing responses, the authors draw upon a wealth of original research in many fields, generating new perspectives and thought-provoking, often surprising, conclusions. With their abundant cross-cultural and cross-temporal references, the chapters mutually enrich each other and collectively deepen our understanding of ecstatic phenomena thousands of years ago. Another noteworthy feature of the book is its illustrative content, including commissioned reconstructions of ecstatic scenarios and pairings of works of Bronze Age and modern psychedelic art. Scholars, students and other readers interested in antiquity, comparative religion and the social and cognitive sciences will find much to explore in the fascinating realm of ecstatic experience in the ancient world.
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• Introduction: Approaches to the Later Imperial Mediterranean as an Environment
• Part 1. Imagination and Domination: Mediterranean as a Conceptual Environment
• Part 2. A Networked Environment
• Part 3. Braving the Sea in the Later Empire

• 1. Meeting the Alloglottic Other: The Socio-Linguistic Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Spread of Christianity
• 2. Languages and Identities in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity
• 3. The Tower of Babel and Beyond: Primordial Linguistic Situation, Original Language, and the Start of Linguistic Diversification
• 4. Speaking in Tongues in Christian Late Antiquity
• 5. Foreign Languages and the Discourse of Otherness
• 6. The Languages of Saints and Demons.
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This is the story of the transformation of the ways in which the increasingly Christianized elites of the late antique Mediterranean experienced and conceptualized linguistic differences. The metaphor of Babel stands for the magnificent edifice of classical culture that was about to reach the sky, but remained self-sufficient and self-contained in its virtual monolingualism - the paradigm within which even Latin was occasionally considered just a dialect of Greek. The gradual erosion of this vision is the slow fall of Babel that took place in the hearts and minds of a good number of early Christian writers and intellectuals who represented various languages and literary traditions. This step-by-step process included the discovery and internalization of the existence of multiple other languages in the world, as well as subsequent attempts to incorporate their speakers meaningfully into the holistic and distinctly Christian picture of the universe.
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• Introduction: Medieval and Modern Gender-Based Violence Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues, Lorenzo Caravaggi, Giulia M. Paoletti Part I: Women and War
• 1. "Both General and Lady": the 1135 Defence of Gangra by its Amira Maximilian Lau
• 2. Representations of women's violence in the epic: the female 'furor' in the Old French Guillaume d'Orange Cycle, the Byzantine Digenis Akritis and the Persian Shahnameh by Ferdowsi Nina Soleymani Majd
• 3. Reflections on Women's Behaviour in War Contexts in Communal Italy (Twelfth-Thirteenth centuries) Alberto Luongo
• 4. A l'epreuve des guerres seigneuriales. Des roles feminins dans la trame de l'Histoire de Corse (quinzieme siecle) Lucie Arrighi Part II: Women and Criminal Courts
• 5. Opportunities to Charge Rape in Thirteenth-Century Bologna Carol Lansing
• 6. Legal regulation of sex crimes in medieval Serbia and its Mediterranean communes under its rule Nina Krsljanin
• 7. Lascivious crimes and legitimate proofs: women and the juridical transformation of Norman and Staufen Sicily Philippa Byrne Part III: Violence and Female Social Roles
• 8. La parresia comme expression de la violence feminine a Byzance Elisabeth Malamut
• 9. Slavery and Violence Against Women in Renaissance Central Italy Loek Luiten
• 10. 'With her aid, direction, and fervor': Women and the Politics of Lordship in Fourteenth-Century Tuscany Joseph Figliulo-Rosswurm
• 11. Gendering Crime in Byzantium: Abortion, Infanticide and Female Violence Stephanie Novasio Conclusion Annick Peters-Custot.
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This book builds on the contributions of the social sciences, and in particular feminist criminology, which will interest all those researching the history of the role of women / This book analyses both violence against women and violence perpetrated by women, in order to show how medieval assumptions postulated a tight connection between the two / This book will be of particular value to those interested in medieval culture, gender roles, and law.
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• Introduction: investigating the ancient Mediterranean 'childscape'
• Lesley A. Beaumont, Matthew Dillon and Nicola Harrington
• PART I: What is a child?
• 1. The ancient Egyptian conception of children and childhood
• Nicola Harrington
• 2. What is a child in Aegean prehistory?
• Anne P. Chapin
• 3. Ideological constructions of childhood in Bronze and Early Iron Age Italy: personhood between marginality and social inclusion
• Elisa Perego
• 4. Defi ning childhood and youth: a regional approach to Archaic and Classical Greece: the case of Athens and Sparta
• Lesley A. Beaumont
• 5. The child in Etruscan Italy
• Marjatta Nielsen
• 6. Children and the Hellenistic period
• Mark Golden
• 7. Roman childhood revisited
• Veronique Dasen
• 8. From birth to rebirth: perceptions of childhood in Greco-Roman Egypt
• Lissette M. Jimenez
• 9. Looking for children in Late Antiquity
• Geoff rey Nathan
• 10. From village to monastery: fi nding children in the Coptic record from Egypt
• Jennifer Cromwell
• PART II: Daily life
• 11. The child's experience of daily life in ancient Egypt
• Amandine Marshall
• 12. Changing states: daily life of children in Mycenaean and Early Iron Age Greece
• Susan Langdon
• 13. Children in early Rome and Latium
• Sanna Lipkin and Eero Jarva
• 14. Being a child in Archaic and Classical Greece
• Robert S.J. Garland
• 15. The daily life of Etruscan babies and children
• Larissa Bonfante
• 16. Being a child in the Hellenistic world: a subject out of proportion?
• Christian Laes
• 17. Diff erent lives: children's daily experiences in the Roman world
• Fanny Dolansky
• 18. Children as instruments of policy in Hadrian's Egypt
• Myrto Malouta
• 19. Daily life of children in Late Antiquity: play, work and vulnerability
• Ville Vuolanto
• PART III: Religion and ritual
• 20. "Child in the nest": children in Pharaonic Egyptian religion and rituals
• Kasia Szpakowska
• 21. Children and Aegean Bronze Age religion
• Ute Gunkel- Maschek
• 22. Initiating children into Italian Bronze and Early Iron Age ritual, religion and cosmology
• Erik van Rossenberg
• 23. Children in Archaic and Classical Greek religion: active and passive ritual agency
• Matthew Dillon
• 24. Children in Etruscan religion and ritual
• Jean MacIntosh Turfa
• 25. Children's roles in Hellenistic religion
• Olympia Bobou
• 26. Children in Roman religion and ritual
• Janette McWilliam
• 27. Children, religion and ritual in Greco-Roman Egypt
• Ada Nifosi
• 28. The child in Late Antique religion and ritual
• Beatrice Caseau
• PART IV: Death
• 29. Child, infant and foetal burials in the Egyptian archaeological record: exploring cultural capacities from the Predynastic to Middle Kingdom Periods (c. 4400-1650 BC)
• Ronika K. Power
• 30. "Do not say 'I am young to be taken' ": children and death in ancient Egypt: Second Intermediate Period to the Late Period
• Jessica Kaiser
• 31. Children and death in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece
• Chrysanthi Gallou
• 32. Children, death and society in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Sicily
• Gillian Shepherd
• 33. Children and death in Archaic and Classical Greece
• Vicky Vlachou
• 34. Infancy and childhood in funerary contexts of Early Iron Age Middle Tyrrhenian Italy: a comparative approach
• Francesca Fulminante and Simon Stoddart
• 35. Child death in the Hellenistic world
• Nikolas Dimakis
• 36. Death of a Roman child
• Hugh Lindsay
• 37. Death of a child: demographic and preparation trends of juvenile burials in the Graeco-Roman Fayoum
• Kerry Muhlestein and R. Paul Evans
• 38. Infant mortality, Michael Psellos and the Byzantine demon Gillo
• Lynda Garland
• PART V: Bioarchaeology
• 39. The bioarchaeology of children in Greco-Roman antiquity
• Kathryn E. Marklein and Sherry C. Fox
• 40. Infancy and childhood in Roman Egypt: bioarchaeological perspectives
• Sandra M. Wheeler, Lana Williams and Tosha L. Dupras
• 41. "The greatest of treasures": advances in the bioarchaeology of Byzantine children
• Chryssi Bourbou.
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This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses classical studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and bioarchaeology. With a chronological range of the Bronze Age to Byzantium and regional coverage of Egypt, Greece, and Italy this is the largest survey of childhood yet undertaken for the ancient world. Within this chronological and regional framework both the social construction of childhood and the child's life experience are explored through the key topics of the definition of childhood, daily life, religion and ritual, death, and the information provided by bioarchaeology. No other volume to date provides such a comprehensive, systematic and cross-cultural study of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean world. In particular, its focus on the identification of society-specific definitions of childhood and the incorporation of the bioarchaeological perspective makes this work a unique and innovative study. Children in Antiquity provides an invaluable and unrivalled resource for anyone working on all aspects of the lives and deaths of children in the ancient Mediterranean world.
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• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Introduction by Aaron W. Irvin 1
• 1. The Beauty of the Oikumene Has Two Edges: Nurturing Roman Imperialism in the "Glocalizing" Traditions of the East by Ljuben Tevdovski
• 2. Triggered identity: the use of Macedonian ethnicity by Blaundos in confrontation with the Roman Empire by Luca Mazzini
• 3. The population of Siscia in the light of epigraphy by Ivan Radman-Livaja
• 4. Roman presence in Athens in light of the epigraphic evidence evidence by Aleksandar Simic
• 5. Global and Local in the Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods in Marathon: the construction of a Cultural Identity in Roman Greece by Dafni Maikidou-Poutrino
• 6. Consciousness of Connectivity: Roman temples in southern Syria by Francesca Mazzilli
• 7. Macedonian, Greek, or Egyptian? Navigating the Royal Additive Identities of Ptolemy I Soter and Ptolemy II Philadelphus by Rachel J. Mittelman
• 8. Being Mithraist: Embracing 'Otherness' in the Roman Cultural Milieu by Nina Mazhjoo
• 9. "There are always two sides to every story": Roman rule, cultural continuities and ethnic identity in southern Hispania by Francisco Machuca Prieto
• 10. Unlocking ritual performances in the Romano-British countryside: How small finds and structured deposits enrich our understanding of provincial priesthoods by Alessandra Esposito
• 11. Purification Through Puppies: Dog Symbolism and Sacrifice in the Mediterranean World by Aaron W. Irvin and Jason Lundock
• 12. Communities at the Edges of the Roman World: The Perception of Identity in the Roman Iron Age Barbaricum by Kala Drewniak
• 13. Deconstructing "Balkan Latin" by Dragana Kun?er
• 14. The importance of being earnest: Why precise language matters by Kaja Stemberger Flegar
• 15. The dictatorship of identity: Soviet scholarship and Roman imperialism by Anton Baryshnikov.
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A timely and academically-significant contribution to scholarship on community, identity, and globalization in the Roman and Hellenistic worlds Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World examines the construction of personal and communal identities in the ancient world, exploring how globalism, multi-culturalism, and other macro events influenced micro identities throughout the Hellenistic and Roman empires. This innovative volume discusses where contact and the sharing of ideas was occurring in the time period, and applies modern theories based on networks and communication to historical and archaeological data. A new generation of international scholars challenge traditional views of Classical history and offer original perspectives on the impact globalizing trends had on localized areas-insights that resonate with similar issues today. This singular resource presents a broad, multi-national view rarely found in western collected volumes, including Serbian, Macedonian, and Russian scholarship on the Roman Empire, as well as on Roman and Hellenistic archaeological sites in Eastern Europe. Topics include Egyptian identity in the Hellenistic world, cultural identity in Roman Greece, Romanization in Slovenia, Balkan Latin, the provincial organization of cults in Roman Britain, and Soviet studies of Roman Empire and imperialism. Serving as a synthesis of contemporary scholarship on the wider topic of identity and community, this volume: Provides an expansive materialist approach to the topic of globalization in the Roman world Examines ethnicity in the Roman empire from the viewpoint of minority populations Offers several views of metascholarship, a growing sub-discipline that compares ancient material to modern scholarship Covers a range of themes, time periods, and geographic areas not included in most western publications Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World is a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and graduate students examining identity and ethnicity in the ancient world, as well as for those working in multiple fields of study, from Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman historians, to the study of ethnicity, identity, and globalizing trends in time. .
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• Introduction. Graffiti in religious spaces in first-century Pompeii : Lararia, neighborhood shrines, and graffiti in the early Roman Empire / Rebecca R. Benefiel
• Contextualizing Christian pilgrim graffiti in the late antique Holy Land / Marlena Whiting
• Jewish devotional graffiti and Dipinti in the Holy Land / Leah Di Segni
• 'Servant of the Apostle Philip' : Byzantine graffiti from Hierapolis of Phrygia (Turkey) / Francesco Guizzi
• Late antique Christian graffiti : the case of Rome (third to fifth centuries CE) / Antonio Felle
• At the origins of European pilgrimage : the devotional graffiti of the Anglo-Saxons in Rome (seventh-ninth centuries) / Carlo Carletti
• Inscribing space in Christian Egypt / Jacques Van Der Vliet
• Graffiti from Christian Egypt and the cult of the saints : a case study from Dayr Abū Ḥinnis / Alain Delattre
• Pilgrims and seafarers : a survey of travellers' graffiti from the Aegean Islands / Paweł Nowakowski
• Associational religion in Late Antiquity? : professional groups, factions, and confraternities in Christian-cultic graffiti / Efthymios Rizos
• Religious graffiti from early Islam inj Arabia and the Near East / Frédéric Imbert
• Cultic graffiti in Christian Nubia (six to fifteenth centuries) / Adam Łajtar
• Inscriptions, graffiti, graffiti devotionis causa : some concluding notes and reflections / Antonio E. Felle
• Graffiti and religion : some concluding remarks and perspectives / Bryan Ward-Perkins

A volume that collects and discusses the graffiti, scratched or drawn on religious shrines in the first centuries of Christianity and Islam, by ordinary men and women, seeking the help of their God and their favoured saints. Graffiti, scratched or drawn on the walls of religious shrines, provide unique unmediated evidence of how ordinary men and women, many of them pilgrims, invoked and sought the help of God and the saints in Late Antiquity. The papers in this volume document and discuss cultic graffiti across the entire late antique Mediterranean, and into Nubia and Arabia. The principal focus is the Christian world, but there are also papers that look back to pre-Christian practice, and into the world of early Islam. Presenting evidence that is often unfamiliar, this is an important volume for anyone interested in the History and Archaeology of Late Antiquity. In examining cultic practice, we are almost always compelled to view the actions of devotees through texts written by the ecclesiastical elite, often with a clear hagiographical agenda in mind - cultic graffiti are evidence produced by the protagonists themsleves"-- Provided by publisher

• Préparer et conduire la guerre
• Comment préparer une croisade ?
• Renseignement, prédication et propagande avant la cinquième croisade
• Le jihad à l'époque nasride selon la Tubfat al-anfus d'Ibn Hudayl
• Eunuques de guerre à Byzance
• Les origines, du ive siècle au règne de Justinien Ier
• Défendre le littoral
• Le rôle des ribàts dans la protection des ports et des mouillages en Ifriqiya au Moyen Âge
• La tour du Gapeau et la défense de la rade d'Hyères à la fin du Moyen Âge
• L'exemple d'un partenariat "public-privé"
• La maison-tour de Giannoudi à Réthymnon (Crète)
• Une expression architecturale éclectique en contexte de guerre de conquête
• De la guerre à la négociation
• Du combat à la négociation, le doge face au sultan
• Venise, fin du Moyen Âge
• La diplomatie byzantine (IXe-XIIe siècle)
• Instrument pour la paix ou arme de guerre ?
• Les premiers contacts diplomatiques entre l'Ifriqiya et la commune de Pise au XIIe siècle
• L'ambassade florentine de 1422 et l'établissement des relations commerciales avec les Mamelouks
• Les premiers documents
• Les cadeaux entre souverains byzantins et étrangers aux XIIe-XVe siècles.

"L'histoire de la Méditerranée médiévale ne se résume pas à des affrontements perpétuels ; elle est aussi marquée par des périodes de paix et d'échanges diplomatiques intenses. Un mince fil séparait la guerre et la paix. Comment passait-on de la préparation, de l'organisation et de la conduite de la guerre à des relations pacifiques ? Cette thématique s'inscrit dans un ensemble disparate, l'Occident, Byzance et l'Islam, avec des sociétés et des idéologies distinctes, tout en étant liées entre elles par les échanges, les contacts et les communications multiples. L'ouvrage porte sur les transitions entre la guerre et la paix, sur les croisés répondant à l'appel de la propagande pontificale, les gôzi mobilisés par le gihôd, les eunuques byzantins qui se retrouvaient sur tous les fronts. La guerre signifiait aussi organiser la défense en temps de paix. La Méditerranée et ses milliers de kilomètres de côtes se sont hérissés de fortifications, de ribôts et de bases navales. La question des négociations occupe le coeur du volume. Elle témoigne de l'intérêt de l'historiographie actuelle pour l'étude de ce moment emblématique d'échanges diplomatiques, comme entre Venise et les Ottomans. À Byzance où prédominait l'idéologie de la paix comme fondement chrétien de l'Empire, la négociation n'avait parfois d'autre issue que la guerre. Pour magnifier le temps de paix les cadeaux diplomatiques se répandaient dans toutes les cours de la Méditerranée médiévale."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: Desire and Death in Elite Medieval Emotional Communities1. Philomena and the Erotics of Privilege in the Middle Ages2. Widows and the Romance of Grief3. Masculinity, Mourning, and Epic Sacrifice4. Toward a Mediterranean Erotics of GriefConclusion: The Erotics of Grief and the Stakes of Community
• Cornell University Press.
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The Erotics of Grief considers how emotions propagate power by exploring whose lives are grieved and what kinds of grief are valuable within and eroticized by medieval narratives. Megan Moore argues that grief is not only routinely eroticized in medieval literature but that it is a foundational emotion of medieval elite culture. Focusing on the concept of grief as desire, Moore builds on the history of the emotions and Georges Bataille's theory of the erotic as the conflict between desire and death, one that perversely builds a sense of community organized around a desire for death. The link between desire and death serves as an affirmation of living communities. Moore incorporates literary, visual, and codicological evidence in sources from across the Mediterranean-from Old French chansons de geste, such as the Song of Roland and La mort le roi Artu and romances such as Erec et Enide, Philomena, and Floire et Blancheflor; to Byzantine and ancient Greek novels; to Middle English travel narratives such as Mandeville's Travels. In her reading of the performance of grief as one of community and remembrance, Moore assesses why some lives are imagined as mattering more than others and explores how a language of grief becomes a common language of status among the medieval Mediterranean elite. -- Cornell University Press.
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• Introduction: Desire and Death in Elite Medieval Emotional Communities1. Philomena and the Erotics of Privilege in the Middle Ages2. Widows and the Romance of Grief3. Masculinity, Mourning, and Epic Sacrifice4. Toward a Mediterranean Erotics of GriefConclusion: The Erotics of Grief and the Stakes of Community
• Cornell University Press.
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The Erotics of Grief considers how emotions propagate power by exploring whose lives are grieved and what kinds of grief are valuable within and eroticized by medieval narratives. Megan Moore argues that grief is not only routinely eroticized in medieval literature but that it is a foundational emotion of medieval elite culture. Focusing on the concept of grief as desire, Moore builds on the history of the emotions and Georges Bataille's theory of the erotic as the conflict between desire and death, one that perversely builds a sense of community organized around a desire for death. The link between desire and death serves as an affirmation of living communities. Moore incorporates literary, visual, and codicological evidence in sources from across the Mediterranean-from Old French chansons de geste, such as the Song of Roland and La mort le roi Artu and romances such as Erec et Enide, Philomena, and Floire et Blancheflor; to Byzantine and ancient Greek novels; to Middle English travel narratives such as Mandeville's Travels. In her reading of the performance of grief as one of community and remembrance, Moore assesses why some lives are imagined as mattering more than others and explores how a language of grief becomes a common language of status among the medieval Mediterranean elite. -- Cornell University Press.
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• Introduction: Desire and Death in Elite Medieval Emotional Communities1. Philomena and the Erotics of Privilege in the Middle Ages2. Widows and the Romance of Grief3. Masculinity, Mourning, and Epic Sacrifice4. Toward a Mediterranean Erotics of GriefConclusion: The Erotics of Grief and the Stakes of Community
• Cornell University Press.
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The Erotics of Grief considers how emotions propagate power by exploring whose lives are grieved and what kinds of grief are valuable within and eroticized by medieval narratives. Megan Moore argues that grief is not only routinely eroticized in medieval literature but that it is a foundational emotion of medieval elite culture. Focusing on the concept of grief as desire, Moore builds on the history of the emotions and Georges Bataille's theory of the erotic as the conflict between desire and death, one that perversely builds a sense of community organized around a desire for death. The link between desire and death serves as an affirmation of living communities. Moore incorporates literary, visual, and codicological evidence in sources from across the Mediterranean-from Old French chansons de geste, such as the Song of Roland and La mort le roi Artu and romances such as Erec et Enide, Philomena, and Floire et Blancheflor; to Byzantine and ancient Greek novels; to Middle English travel narratives such as Mandeville's Travels. In her reading of the performance of grief as one of community and remembrance, Moore assesses why some lives are imagined as mattering more than others and explores how a language of grief becomes a common language of status among the medieval Mediterranean elite. -- Cornell University Press.
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• Introduction: Desire and Death in Elite Medieval Emotional Communities1. Philomena and the Erotics of Privilege in the Middle Ages2. Widows and the Romance of Grief3. Masculinity, Mourning, and Epic Sacrifice4. Toward a Mediterranean Erotics of GriefConclusion: The Erotics of Grief and the Stakes of Community
• Cornell University Press.
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The Erotics of Grief considers how emotions propagate power by exploring whose lives are grieved and what kinds of grief are valuable within and eroticized by medieval narratives. Megan Moore argues that grief is not only routinely eroticized in medieval literature but that it is a foundational emotion of medieval elite culture. Focusing on the concept of grief as desire, Moore builds on the history of the emotions and Georges Bataille's theory of the erotic as the conflict between desire and death, one that perversely builds a sense of community organized around a desire for death. The link between desire and death serves as an affirmation of living communities. Moore incorporates literary, visual, and codicological evidence in sources from across the Mediterranean-from Old French chansons de geste, such as the Song of Roland and La mort le roi Artu and romances such as Erec et Enide, Philomena, and Floire et Blancheflor; to Byzantine and ancient Greek novels; to Middle English travel narratives such as Mandeville's Travels. In her reading of the performance of grief as one of community and remembrance, Moore assesses why some lives are imagined as mattering more than others and explores how a language of grief becomes a common language of status among the medieval Mediterranean elite. -- Cornell University Press.
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The late antique and early medieval Mediterranean was characterized by wide-ranging cultural and linguistic diversity. Yet, under the influence of Christianity, communities in the Mediterranean world were bound together by common concepts of good rulership, which were also shaped by Greco-Roman, Persian, Caucasian, and other traditions. This collection of essays examines ideas of good Christian rulership and the debates surrounding them in diverse cultures and linguistic communities. It grants special attention to communities on the periphery, such as the Caucasus and Nubia, and some essays examine non-Christian concepts of good rulership to offer a comparative perspective. As a whole, the studies in this volume reveal not only the entanglement and affinity of communities around the Mediterranean but also areas of conflict among Christians and between Christians and other cultural traditions. By gathering various specialized studies on the overarching question of good rulership, this volume highlights the possibilities of placing research on classical antiquity and early medieval Europe into conversation with the study of eastern Christianity.
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"This book presents a plausible account of how thousands of unusually pure copper ore from Isle Royale in northern Michigan's Lake Superior was mined and shipped to Europe by the Minoans 4500 years ago during the Bronze Age, and how Stonehenge in England was used as an aid to Minoan celestial navigation back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean. The author proposes that Minoan ocean navigators used stone circles, particularly Stonehenge, to advance the science of celestial astronomy of Bronze Age navigation and trade"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1.Introduction, Robin Vose, Sarah Davis-Secord, and Belen Vicens
• Section I: Perceiving the Other2. The Four Seas of Medieval Mediterranean Intellectual History, Thomas E. Burman3. Coronidis Loco: On the Meaning of Elephants, from Baghdad to Aachen, Paul M. Cobb4. Martial and Spiritual at San Baudelio de Berlanga, Jerrilynn D. Dodds5. Seeing the Substance: Rhetorical Muslims and Christian Holy Objects in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, Ryan Szpiech.6.The Perception of the Religious Other in Alonso de Espina's Fortalitium Fidei: A Tool for Inquisitors? Ana Echevarria
• Section II: Interfaith Relationships7. A Global 'Infection' of Judaizing: Investigations of Portuguese New Jews and New Christians in the 1630s and 1640s, Gretchen Starr-LeBeau8.Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Late Medieval Society: The Case of Avila, Teofilo F. Ruiz.- 9. Sex, Lies, and Alleged Rape: Scandal and Corruption in Fourteenth-Century Mudejar Lleida, Brian A. Catlos 10. A Tunisian Jurist's Perspective on Jihad in the Age of the Fondaco, Janina M. Safran.- 11.The Significance of Morisco Feuding in the Kingdom of Valencia, Mark D. Meyerson12. An Incident at Damietta-1733, Molly Greene.
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This book is a collaborative contribution that expands our understanding of how interfaith relations, both real and imagined, developed across medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean. The volume pays homage to the late Olivia Remie Constable's scholarship and presents innovative, thought-provoking, interdisciplinary investigations of cross-cultural exchange, ranging widely across time and geography. Divided into two parts, "Perceptions of the 'Other'" and "Interfaith relations, " this volume features scholars engaging with church art, literature, historiography, scientific treatises, and polemics, in order to study how the religious "Other" was depicted to serve different purposes and audiences. There are also microhistories that examine the experiences of individual families, classes, and communities as they interacted with one another in their own specific contexts. Several of these studies draw their source material from church and state archives as well as jurisprudential texts, and span the centuries from the late medieval to early modern periods.
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This book is a study of architecture and urban design across the Mediterranean Sea from the 12th to the 14th Century, a time when there was no single, hegemonic power dominating the area. The focus of the study, four cities on the Italian peninsula, and four cities in Syria and Egypt demonstrate the interconnectedness of the design and use of urban structures, streets and open space. Each chapter in turn offers a descriptive and historical analysis of the buildings and spaces used for trade, education, political display and public action. The study includes historical and social analysis of the mercantile, social, political and educational cultures of the eight cities, highlighting similarities and differences between Christian and Islamic practices. Sixteen new maps drawn specifically for the text supplement immersive descriptions of the eight cities based on the writings of medieval travelers.
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• Acknowledgement
• Introduction
• Maps
• Chapter 1 Travel Literature and Geographical Guides - 1. Al-Harawi on Antioch, Tiberias and its surroundings, Acre, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, and Ascalon -2. Ibn Jubayr on the Christians of Mount Lebanon and trade between Muslims and Franks - 3. Ibn Jubayr on the cities of Banzas, Acre, Tyre, and the Muslims under Frankish rule - 4. Yaqut al-Hamawi on Ascalon, Jaffa, Caesarea, Atlit, Acre, Tyre, Margat, Saone, and Kerak
• Chapter 2 Jihad Books an Juridical Directives - 1. Ibn 'Asakir on Jihad - Al-'Izz son of 'Abd al-Salam's juridical directive banning the sale of arms to the Franks - 4. Ibn Taymuyya's juridical directive against the Shi'is
• Chapter 3 Chronicles, Memoirs, and Poetry - 1. Ibn al-Athir on the emerence of the Franks - 2. Ibn al-Qalanisi on the capture of Antioch, Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, and Jerusalem, and the attack against Ascalon in 1098-1099 - 3. Ibn Al-Athir on the capture or Jerusalem and the attack against Ascalon - 4. Al-'Azimi on the Battle of the Field of Blood (1119) and several events between 1108 and 1141 - 5. Hamdan al-Atharibi on receiving a land tenure from the Frankish lord of al-Atharib - 6. Al-Qaysarani's poems about the Frankish and Greek women in Antioch - 7. Ibn al-Qalanisi on the siege of Damascus in 1148 - 8. Ibn al-Athir on the siege of Damascus - 9. Ibn'asakir's poem about Nur al-Din in honor of his forces taking Egypt in 1169 - 10. Ibn al-Athir on the defeat of the Franks at Hattin in 1187 - 11. 'Imad al-Dinal-Ifsahani on the seizure of the Relic of the True Cross, the capture of Tiberias, and the execution of the Frankish prisoners - 12. Rashid al-Din al-Nabulusi's poem on Saladin's liberation of Jerusalem in 1187 - 13. Ibn Shaddad on the expedition of the German emperor and the letter of the Armenian catholicos to Saladin in 1190 - 14. Ibn Al-Athir on the Frank's capture of Damietta in 1219 and their defeat in 1221 - 15. Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi on al-Mu'azzam's destruction of the wall of Jerusalem in 1219 - 16. Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi on the Frank's capture of Damietta in 1219 and their defeat in 1221 - 17. Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi on the envoys of Frederick to al-Mu'azzam in 1226 - 18. Ibn Wasil on Frederick arriving in Acre in September 1228 - 19. Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi on Frederick's visit to the Noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem in March 1229 - 20. Ibn Wasil on the negotiations between al-Kamil and Frederick, and the emperor's visit to the Haram of Jerusalem - 21. Ibn Wasil on the handing over of Jerusalem to the Franks in 1243 - 22. Al-Yumini on a local Christian ransoming a Muslim captive from a Frank - 23. Jamal al-Din Ibn Matruh's poem on the defeat of King Louis IX near Damietta in 1250 - 24. Abu Shama on the Mongol's capture of Damascus in 1260 - 25. Ibn Wasil on the battle o 'Ayn Jalut in 1260 and related events - 26. Ibn Wasil on a Muslim embassy to Emperor Manfred in 1262 - 27. Baybars al-Mansuri on the capture of Crac des Chevaliers (1271) the death of the Sultan Baybars (1278) and teh capture of Tyre, Sidon, Atlit, Beirut, and Haifa (1291) - 28. Al-Nuwayri al-Iskandarani on Peter of Cyprus's sack of Alexandria in 1365
• Chapter 4 Biographies - 1. Ibn 'Asakir on Jesus - 2. Ibn 'Asakir on al-Findalawii - 3. Ibn 'Asakir on Nur al-Din - 4. Sibt Ibn al-jawzi on al-Mu'azzam - 5. Al-Dhahabi on al-Mu'azzam - 6. Ibn Abu Usaybi'a on the Christian physician Ya'qub son of Siqlab - 7. Al-Dhahabi on the Christian physicianya'qub son of Siqlab
• Chapter 5 Correspondences, Treaties, and Truces - 1. Al-Qalqashandi's account of Saladin's letter of condolence to King Baldwin IV in 1174 - 2. Ibn Shadda on Saladin's negotiations with Richard the Lionheart in 1191 and the latter's proposal that al-'Adil marry Richard's sister Joan - 3. Ibn Nazif al-Hamawi's account of Frederick's letter to commander Fakhr al-Din son of Shaykh al-Shuyukh - 4. Al-Qalqashandi's account of the oaths of the truce between Sultan Qalawun and the Franks of Acre, Sidon, and Atlit
• Chapter 6 Inscriptions - 1. Fatimid inscription on a tower fortification in Ascalon (1150) - 2. Inscription on the pulpit that Nur al-Din commissioned for the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem (1168-1169) - 3. Inscription panel marking the foundation of a trench around the fortification wall of the old city of Jerusalem during the reign of Saladin (1191) - 4. Inscription above the entrance to St.Anne's Church in Jerusalem, transformed into a college of Shafi'i law and named after Saladin al-Madrasa al-Salihiyya (1192) - 5. Inscription above the main entrance gate to the shrine in Hebron housing the cenotaphs of Isaac and Rebecca (1215) - 6. Foundation inscription on the wall of the Fortress os Subayba (Nimrod's Fortress) on the hllls overlooking Bayas (1228) - 7. Inscription above the arch of the gate to the northwest tower of the Fortress of Subaya - 8. Inscription on a mosque in the village of Bayt Hanun (1239) - 9. Inscription on the mausoleum of Khalid son of al-Walid in Hims (1266) - 10. Inscription on the shrine of Salman al-Farisi in Ashood (1269) - 11. Inscription commemorating Baybars's renovations of Crac des Chevaliers (1271) - 12. Inscription commemorating Baybars's renovations of the Fortress of Subaya (1275) - 13. Inscription on a hospice for pilgrims in Jerusalem (1282) - 15. Inscription on the top and the bottom of the two doors of the gate that leads to the shrine housing the cenotaphs of Abraham and Sarah (1286)
• Apprendix A Islamic calendar
• Apprendix B Quranic Verses on war and peace
• Appendix C Bibliographic Overview of the Major Muslim sources of the Crusader Period
• Apprendix D Glossary of Dynasties, Persons, Sects, Terms, etc.
• Bibliography --index A Honorific titles
• Index B names
• Index C Place Names
• Index D Terms and Events
• Index E Quranic and Biblical References

Drawn from greater Syria, northern Mesopotamia, and Egypt, the sources in this anthology -- many of which are translated into English for the first time here--provide eyewitness and contemporary historical accounts of what unfolded in the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. In providing representative examples of the many disparate types of Muslim sources, this volume opens a window onto life in the Islamic Near East during the Crusader period and the interactions between Franks and Muslims in the broader context of Islamic history. Ideally suited for use in undergraduate courses on the Crusades or the pre-modern Islamic Near East, this anthology will also appeal to any readers seeking a better understanding of the Islamic response to the Crusades and the general history of the Near East in this period.
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• Introduction / Emily A. Winkler and Andrew Small, page 11
• 1. Norman conquests : nature, nurture, Normanitas / Matthew Bennett, page 43
• 2. Marriage as a strategy for conquering power : Norman matrimonial strategies in Lombard southern Italy / Aurélie Thomas, page 67
• 3. The changing priorities in the Norman incursions into the Iberian Peninsula's Muslim-Christian frontier, c.1018-c.1191 / Lucas Villegas-Aristizábal, page 81
• 4. Norman change, lords, and rural societies / Sandro Carocci, page 123
• 5. The nobility of Norman Italy, c.1085-1127 / Graham A. Loud, page 139
• 6. Shaping the urban landscape : the Norman as new patrons in Salerno / Maddalena Vaccaro, page 163
• 7. Palermo and the Norman conquest of Sicily / Theresa Jäckh, page 187
• 8. Community and conquest on medieval Monte Iato, Sicily / Nicole Mölk, page 211
• 9. Holy war in the central Mediterranean : the case of the Zirids and the Normans / Matt King, page 229
• 10. Hagiography and the politics of memory in the Norman conquest of the Italian south / Kalina Yamboliev, page 249

In both popular memory and in their own histories, the Normans remain almost synonymous with conquest. In their relatively brief history, some of these Normans left a small duchy in northern France to fight with Empires, conquer kingdoms, and form new ruling dynasties. This book examines the explosive Norman encounters with the medieval Mediterranean, c. 1000-1250. It evaluates new evidence for conquest and communities, and offer new perspectives on the Normans? many meetings and adventures in history and memory.00The contributions gathered here ask questions of politics, culture, society, and historical writing. How should we characterize the Normans? many personal, local, and interregional interactions in the Mediterranean? How were they remembered in writing in the years and centuries that followed their incursions? The book questions the idea of conquest as replacement, examining instead how human interactions created new nodes and networks that transformed the medieval Mediterranean. Through studies of the Normans and the communities who encountered them - across Iberia, the eastern Roman Empire, Lombard Italy, Islamic Sicily, and the Great Sea - the book explores macro- and micro-histories of conquest, its strategies and technologies, and how medieval people revised, rewrote, and remembered conquest

• 1. Rethinking the origins of money
• 2. Outline of an approach to money
• 3. A study of Iron Age precious metal hoards
• 4. Money in the Iron Age Southern Levant
• 5. Money in the Iron Age Aegean
• 6. Conclusion
• Appendix.
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Color versions of select print images available on the Resources tab (or here: www.cambridge.org/heymans). This book shows how money emerged and spread in the eastern Mediterranean, centuries before the invention of coinage. While the invention of coinage in Ancient Lydia around 630 BCE is widely regarded as one of the defining innovations of the ancient world, money itself was never invented. It gained critical weight in the Iron Age (ca. 1200 - 600 BCE) as a social and economic tool, most dominantly in the form of precious metal bullion. This book is the first study to comprehensively engage with the early history of money in the Iron Age Mediterranean, tracing its development in the Levant and the Aegean. Building on a detailed study of precious metal hoards, Elon D. Heymans deploys a wide range of sources, both textual and material, to rethink money's role and origins in the history of the eastern Mediterranean.
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• Part I: Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean
• 1. Introduction to thinking about women and monarchy in the ancient world.
• Elizabeth D. Carney and Sabine Muller
• Part II: Egypt and the Nile Valley
• 2. The King's Mother in Old and Middle Kingdoms
• Lisa Sabbahy
• 3. Regnant Women in Egypt
• Martina Minas-Nerpal
• 4. The Image of Nefertiti
• Athena Van der Perre
• 5. The God's Wife of Amun: Origins and Rise to Power
• Mariam F. Ayad
• 6. The Role and Status of Royal Women in Kush
• Angelika Lohwasser
• 7. Ptolemaic Royal Women
• Anne Bielman Sanchez and Giuseppina Lenzo
• 8. Berenike II
• Sabine Muller
• 9. Royal Women and Ptolemaic Cults
• Stefan Pfeiffer
• 10. Ptolemaic Women's Patronage of the Arts
• Silvia Barbantani
• 11. The Kleopatra Problem: Roman Sources and a Female Ptolemaic Ruler
• Christoph Schafer
• Part III: The Ancient Near East
• 12. Invisible Mesopotamian Royal Women
• Sebastian Fink
• 13. Achaimenid Women
• Maria Brosius
• 14. Karian Royal Women and the Creation of a Royal Identity
• Stephen Ruzicka
• 15. Seleukid Women
• Marek Jan Olbrycht
• 16. Apama and Stratonike: the first Seleukid basilissai
• Gillian Ramsey
• 17. Seleukid Marriage Alliances
• Monica d'Agostini
• 18. Royal Mothers and Dynastic Power in Attalid Pergamon
• Dolores Miron
• 19. Hasmonean Women
• Julia Wilker
• 20. Women at the Arsakid Court
• Irene Madreiter and Udo Hartmann
• 21. Women of the Sasanid Dynasty (224-651 CE)
• Josef Wiesehoefer
• 22. Zenobia of Palmyra
• Lucinda Dirven
• Part IV: Greece and Macedonia
• 23. "Royal" Women in the Homeric Epics
• Johannes Heinrichs
• 24. Royal Women in Greek Tragedy
• Hanna M. Roisman
• 25. Argead Women
• Sabine Muller
• 26. Women in Antigonid Monarchy
• Elizabeth D. Carney
• Part V: Commonalities
• 27. Transitional Royal Women: Kleopatra, sister of Alexander the Great, Adea Eurydike, and Phila
• Elizabeth D. Carney
• 28. Women and Dynasty and the Hellenistic Imperial Courts
• Rolf Strootman
• 29. Royal Brother-Sister marriage, Ptolemaic and otherwise
• Sheila L. Ager
• 30. Jugate Images in Ptolemaic and Julio-Claudian Monarchy
• Dimitris Plantzos
• Part VI: Rome: Late Republic through Empire
• 31. Octavia Minor and Patronage
• Katrina Moore
• 32. Livia and the Principate of Augustus and Tiberius
• Christiane Kunst
• 33. Julio-Claudian Imperial women
• Francesca Cenerini
• 34. The Imperial Women from the Flavians to the Severi
• Kordula Schnegg
• 35. Portraiture of Flavian imperial women
• Annetta Alexandridis
• 36. The Faustinas
• Stefan Priwitzer
• 37. Women in the Severan Dynasty
• Riccardo Bertolazzi
• 38. Women in the Family of Constantine
• Michaela Dirschlmayer
• Part VII: Reception from Antiquity to Present Times
• 39. Semiramis: Perception and Presentation of Female Power in an Oriental Garb
• Brigitte Truschnegg
• 40. Tanaquil and Tullia in Livy as Roman Caricatures of Greek Mythic and Historic Hellenistic Queens
• Judith P. Hallett and Karen Klaiber Hersch
• 41. Roman Empresses on Screen: an Epic Failure?
• Anja Wieber.
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This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently addresses certain issues across all dynasties: title; role in succession; the situation of mothers, wives, and daughters of kings; regnant and co-regnant women; role in cult and in dynastic image; and examines a sampling of the careers of individual women while placing them within broader contexts. Written by an international group of experts, this collection is based on the assumption that women played a fundamental role in ancient monarchy, that they were part of, not apart from it, and that it is necessary to understand their role to understand ancient monarchies. This is a crucial resource for anyone interested in the role of women in antiquity.
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• 1. Meeting the Alloglottic Other: The Socio-Linguistic Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Spread of Christianity
• 2. Languages and Identities in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity
• 3. The Tower of Babel and Beyond: Primordial Linguistic Situation, Original Language, and the Start of Linguistic Diversification
• 4. Speaking in Tongues in Christian Late Antiquity
• 5. Foreign Languages and the Discourse of Otherness
• 6. The Languages of Saints and Demons.
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This is the story of the transformation of the ways in which the increasingly Christianized elites of the late antique Mediterranean experienced and conceptualized linguistic differences. The metaphor of Babel stands for the magnificent edifice of classical culture that was about to reach the sky, but remained self-sufficient and self-contained in its virtual monolingualism - the paradigm within which even Latin was occasionally considered just a dialect of Greek. The gradual erosion of this vision is the slow fall of Babel that took place in the hearts and minds of a good number of early Christian writers and intellectuals who represented various languages and literary traditions. This step-by-step process included the discovery and internalization of the existence of multiple other languages in the world, as well as subsequent attempts to incorporate their speakers meaningfully into the holistic and distinctly Christian picture of the universe.
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• Intersecting religion and urbanity in late antiquity / Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, Rubina Raja, Jörg Rüpke, and Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli
• A tale of no cities / Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli
• The children of Cain / Clifford Ando
• Faith and the city in the 4th century CE / Teresa Morgan
• Intellectualizing religion in the cities of the Roman Empire / Heidi Wendt
• The city of the dead or: the making of a cultural geography / Lara Weiss
• A new "topography of devotion" / Michele Renee Salzman
• City of prophecies / Paroma Chatterjee
• Creating a city of believers: Rabbula of Edessa / Hartmut Leppin
• Sacred spaces and new cities in the Byzantine East / Michael Blömer
• Roman baths as locations of religious practice / Dirk Steuernagel

Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with "lived religion" in contemporary and (mainly) global cities. It describes the reciprocal formation and mutual influence of religion and urbanity in both their material and ideational dimensions. However, this approach, if duly historicized, can be also fruitfully applied to antiquity. Aim of the volume is the analysis of the entanglement of religious communication and city life during an arc of time that is characterised by dramatic and even contradicting developments. Bringing together textual analyses and archaelogical case studies in a comparative perspective, the volume zooms in on the historical context of the advanced imperial and late antique Mediterranean space (2nd-8th centuries CE).
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• 1. Introduction: New Approaches to Old Crafts
• Helle Hochscheid and Ben Russell part
• 1 i. Communities of Making
• 2. craft, Ownership, and Identity: Making, Thinking, and Being (Together)
• Ann Brysbaert and Helle Hochscheid
• 3. Preparing For War: Craftspeople, Management, and Innovations
• Natacha Massar
• 4. Ancient Maker Spaces: the Value of Craft Communities in Multi-material Workshops in Late Antiquity
• Beth Munro patyii. Craft Organization and Identity
• 5. Roman Stone Carvers and their Chaîne Opératoire
• Ben Russell
• 6. Reconstructing Socio-economic Work Practices Between Industries: Cross-industry Relations in Roman Italy
• Elizabeth A. Murphy
• 7. Reeds to Riches: the Crafts of Making Ancient Auloi
• Danise Van Hal and Helle Hochscheid
• 8. Spinning: the Invisible Profession
• Mary Harlow
• Part II. Form, Function and Authenticity
• 9. Value and exoticism: Cylinder Seals in the Late Bronze Age Aegean (C. 1600-1100 Bc)
• Gert Jan Van Wijngaarden
• 10. Assessing Value Attribution: the Evidence of Votive Offerings
• Heide Frielinghaus
• 11. Precious Pots: Making and Repairing Dolia
• Caroline Cheung
• 12. Greek and Roman Glyptic: Alibi Ars, Alibi Materia
• Kenneth Lapatin
• IV. Old Crafts for the Future
• 13. On the Value of Making and Learning
• Will Wootton

"This volume presents new scholarship on the value and valuing of craft production in ancient societies around the Mediterranean. Ancient economic history, especially when approached archaeologically, has typically - and with good reason - focused upon the objects that were produced by craftspeople, their form and style, and their distribution. Typological approaches necessary for sorting and analysing large bodies of material evidence have also prioritized the final form of artefacts. Yet it was first and foremost the craftspeople behind these items who were responsible for an item's functionality, its purpose, and its value, and these roles have in recent years received fresh attention in anthropological and sociological studies. The contributions gathered in this volume revolve around the role of makers, their handling of materials, and their place in networks of production and consumption, whilst at the same time remembering that craftspeople were never lone forces but depended on wider networks of supplies, colleagues, and consumers, as well as more ephemeral considerations such as aesthetics and religious value. Through this approach, the volume sheds new light not only on a range of crafts and materials from the ancient world, but also on the value of making and the making of value in ancient Mediterranean societies."--Back cover

• 1. Interpreting the Mediterranean
• 2. Chronologies and Histories
• 3. The Movement of People
• 4. Contacts and Exchanges
• 5. Urbanisation
• 6. Written Words
• 7. Conclusions.
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The Mediterranean's Iron Age period was one of its most dynamic eras. Stimulated by the movement of individuals and groups on an unprecedented scale, the first half of the first millennium BCE witnesses the development of Mediterranean-wide practices, including related writing systems, common features of urbanism, and shared artistic styles and techniques, alongside the evolution of wide-scale trade. Together, these created an engaged, interlinked and interactive Mediterranean. We can recognise this as the Mediterranean's first truly globalising era. This volume introduces students and scholars to contemporary evidence and theories surrounding the Mediterranean from the eleventh century until the end of the seventh century BCE to enable an integrated understanding of the multicultural and socially complex nature of this incredibly vibrant period.
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• 1. Interpreting the Mediterranean
• 2. Chronologies and Histories
• 3. The Movement of People
• 4. Contacts and Exchanges
• 5. Urbanisation
• 6. Written Words
• 7. Conclusions.
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The Mediterranean's Iron Age period was one of its most dynamic eras. Stimulated by the movement of individuals and groups on an unprecedented scale, the first half of the first millennium BCE witnesses the development of Mediterranean-wide practices, including related writing systems, common features of urbanism, and shared artistic styles and techniques, alongside the evolution of wide-scale trade. Together, these created an engaged, interlinked and interactive Mediterranean. We can recognise this as the Mediterranean's first truly globalising era. This volume introduces students and scholars to contemporary evidence and theories surrounding the Mediterranean from the eleventh century until the end of the seventh century BCE to enable an integrated understanding of the multicultural and socially complex nature of this incredibly vibrant period.
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This book comprises sixteen essays addressing issues of art and architecture together with archaeology within the context of sacred space, broadly defined. It encompasses a wide range of territories, methodologies, perspectives, and scholarly concerns. Our point of departure is the built environment, with all that this entails, including religious and political ceremony, painted interiors, patronage, contested spaces, structural and environmental concerns, sensory properties, the written word as it pertains to architectural projects, and imagined spaces. In all, the scholars involved in this project find fresh approaches and uncover new meanings and interpretations in the material examined within this volume, including buildings and objects from Europe to Asia, and spanning from Late Antiquity through the end of the Middle Ages

• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction : Colonization as a Framework for Reading Acts
• Locating This Book's Approach to (Luke-) Acts
• Two Common Approaches
• Studies of (Luke-) Actsʼ Genre
• Studies of (Luke-) Actsʼ Geography
• An Alternative Approach : (Luke-) Acts and Cult, Community Foundations
• Studies of Colonization and Related Accounts
• Studies of Paul
• Studies of Luke-Acts
• This Book's Approach : Reading Acts via a Colonizing Framework
• Colonization : An Analytic Framework
• Introduction
• Colonization in the Ancient Mediterranean World
• A Variegated Phenomenon
• Colonization Motifs
• Origins
• Divine Sanction
• Founder(s)
• Colonization Accounts : Case Studies
• Colonization in the Archaic Period
• The Foundation of Gela
• The Foundation of Rhegion
• The Foundation of Croton
• The Foundation of Syracuse
• The Foundation of Cyrene
• Colonization in the Classical Period
• Metropolis and Colony
• Religious Sanction
• Colonization in the Hellenistic Period
• Alexander the Founder according to Arrian, Plutarch, and Ps.-Callisthenes
• The Foundations of Seleucus Nicator according to John Malalas
• Colonization of Rome
• Introduction
• The Foundation of Rome according to Livy, Plutarch, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus
• Conclusions
• The Origins of the Cult Community in Jerusalem (Acts 1-5)
• The Community's Founders(s), Origins, and Divine Mandate (Acts 1-2)
• Founding Figure(s)
• Jerusalem Origins
• Divine Sanction
• Oracle of Colonization
• Precipitation of Colonization
• Summation
• The Colonizing Mission in Jerusalem (Acts 3-5)
• Comparative Introduction
• The Founding Acts of the Apostles
• The Pattern of Founding Acts

• Divine Sanction of the Apostlesʼ Founding Acts
• The "Institutions" of the Jerusalem Community
• Conclusions
• Antioch of Syria : Colony and Mother Community
• Introduction : The Pivotal Role of Antioch in Acts
• Socio-Historical Sketch of Antioch
• Antioch, Colony of the Jerusalem Community
• Crisis Origins
• Foundation through Cult Transfer
• Constitution as a "Mixed" Community
• Precursor : Acts 8 (Philip's Ministry)
• Precursor : Acts 9:1-31 (Paul's Commission)
• Precursor : Acts 10:9-11:18 (Peter in Caesarea)
• Jerusalem Oversight
• Antioch, Mother City of "Second-Generation" Colonies
• Divine Sanction of Colonizing Ventures
• Community "Institutions"
• Leadership Institutions
• Religious Institutions
• Conclusion : The Antiochene Community's Colonies
• Pisidian Antioch and the Rhetoric of "Second-Generation" Colonization
• Introduction : The Significance of Acts 13
• Socio-Historical and Architectural Sketch of Antioch
• Paul's Speech : The Rhetoric of "Second-Generation" Colonization
• Introduction
• The Ancestral Prehistory (13:17-22)
• Introduction
• Prehistory as Preparation
• The Colonizing Message for Antioch (13:23-41)
• Introduction
• Announcing the Colonizing Message (13:23-31)
• Explaining the Colonizing Message (13:32-37)
• Pressing Home the Colonizing Message (13:38-41)
• Summation : The Rhetoric of "Second-Generation" Colonization
• The Outcome of Second-Generation Colonization at Antioch
• The Foundation of a "Mixed" Community
• The Colonization of Pisidian Antioch : A Success?
• Conclusion
• Appendix : Abridged Chart of Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman Colonies
• Bibliography
• Index of Ancient Sources
• Index of Modem Authors
• Index of Subjects