Title: The boundless sea : writing Mediterranean history /
Authors: Horden, Peregrine; Purcell, Nicholas
Year: 2020
Subjects: Horden, Peregrine.; Horden, Peregrine.; Civilization; Mediterranean Region Civilization; Mediterranean Region History; Mediterranean Region; Mediterranean Region Civilization.; Mediterranean Region History.
Abstract: "This volume brings together for the first time a collection of twelve articles written both jointly and individually by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell as they have participated in the debates generated by their major work, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (2000). One theme in those debates has been how a comprehensive Mediterranean history can be written: how an approach to Mediterranean history by way of its ecologies and the communications between them can be joined up with more mainstream forms of enquiry - cultural, social, economic, and political, with their specific chronologies and turning points. The second theme raises the question of how Mediterranean history can be fitted into a larger, indeed global history. It concerns the definition of the Mediterranean in space, the way to characterise its frontiers, and the relations between the region so defined and the other large spaces, many of them oceans, to which historians have increasingly turned for novel disciplinary-cum-geographical units of study. A volume collecting the two authors' studies on both these themes, as well as their reply to critics of The Corrupting Sea, should prove invaluable to students and scholars from a number of disciplines: ancient, medieval and early modern history, archaeology, and social anthropology"--
Contents: The Mediterranean and the 'New Thalassology'; American Historical Review, special issue, Forum, 'Oceans of History', 111.3 (2006), pp. 722-40 -- Years of Corruption: Response to Critics [of The Corrupting Sea ]; Rethinking the Mediterranean, ed. W. V. Harris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 348-75 -- The Boundless Sea of Unlikeness?: On Defining the Mediterranean; Mediterranean Historical Review, 18.2 (2003), pp. 9-29 -- Fixity; Mobility and Travel from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, ed. R. Schlesier and U. Zellmann (Berlin: Lit, 2004), pp. 74-83 -- Meshwork: Towards a Historical Ecology of Mediterranean Cities; The Mediterranean Cities between Myth and Reality, ed. F. Frediani (Lugano: Nerbini, 2014), pp. 37-51 -- The Ancient Mediterranean: The View from the Customs House; Rethinking the Mediterranean, ed. W. V. Harris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 200-32 -- Colonisation and Mediterranean History; Ancient Colonizations: Analogy, Similarity and Difference, ed. H. Hurst and S. Owen (London: Bristol Classical Press, 2005), pp. 115-39 -- The Mediterranean and the European Economy in the Early Middle Ages; Not previously published.