Western Perspectives on the Mediterranean: Cultural Transfer in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 400-800 AD

by Andreas Fischer (Editor), Ian Wood (Editor)

Overview

Based on close analyses of contemporary texts, and backed by an examination of the origins of the elements transferred and of the process of transmission, the contributors to this volume focus on the perception and adaptation of knowledge and cultural elements in the West. Taking a variety of approaches, they shed light on the changing lines of communication between the Byzantine empire and other parts of the Mediterranean, on the one hand, and the Burgundian, Frankish and Anglo-Saxon realms and the Papacy on the other.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474269209
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/11/2016
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Andreas Fischer is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Ian Wood is Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leeds, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Burgundians and Byzantium
Ian Wood (School of History, University of Leeds, Uk)

'Avenger of All Perjury' in Constantinople, Ravenna and Metz: St Polyeuctus, Sigibert I and the Division Of
Charibert's Kingdom in 568
Stefan Esders (Friedrich-meinecke-institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

The Historian as Cultural Broker in the Late and Post-roman West
Helmut Reimitz (Department of History, Princeton University, USA)

Rewriting History: Fredegar's Perspectives on the Mediterranean
Andreas Fischer (Friedrich-meinecke-institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

Greek Popes: Yes or No, and Did It Matter?
Thomas Noble (Department of History, University of Notre Dame, USA)

Mediterranean Lessons for Northumbrian Monks in Bede's Chronica
Maiora Sören Kaschke (Seminar Für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany)

Index

Editorial Reviews

"Collectively, these six essays reveal vividly that the communication routes of the early medieval Mediterranean carried not only commodities, objects of devotion, and travelers themselves, but intangible cultural products as well." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review

From the Publisher

Collectively, these six essays reveal vividly that the communication routes of the early medieval Mediterranean carried not only commodities, objects of devotion, and travelers themselves, but intangible cultural products as well.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review