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. (CS1083).

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Horden, Peregrine; Purcell, Nicholas;

Taylor & Francis Group

Taylor & Francis Ltd

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Collected studies, Abingdon, Oxon, 2020

Collected studies, Abingdon, Oxon, 2019

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Cover 1
Half Title 2
Series Page 3
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
Preface 8
Abbreviations 11
Acknowledgements 12
Chapter 1 The Mediterranean and ‘The New Thalassology’ 14
I 14
II 17
III 20
IV 22
V 27
VI 29
Notes 30
Chapter 2 Years of Corruption: Some Responses to Critics [of The Corrupting Sea] 35
I Quid eis cum pelago? The response by discipline 35
II Les auteurs ne se noient jamais dans leur Méditerranée: theory and scope 38
III Doughnuts in cyberspace: finding the metaphor 41
IV Falsifiability 42
V Monstrous squid or calamari? 46
VI Doing without towns 47
VII Managing monotheisms 48
VIII Render unto Caesar: in quest of narrative 49
Notes 51
Chapter 3 The Boundless Sea of Unlikeness?: On Defining the Mediterranean 55
I The origins of corruption 55
II Not ours: some difficulties with appropriation 58
III What kind of edges? Towards Mediterranean désenclavement 61
IV Histoire à très large échelle 66
Notes 68
Chapter 4 Fixity 74
I Claims about fixity 74
II The essential implausibility of fixity 77
III Christian realism? 79
IV The uses of fixity 80
Notes 82
Selected general bibliography 83
Chapter 5 Meshwork: Towards a Historical Ecology of Mediterranean Cities 85
I 85
II 88
III 89
IV 92
V 93
Notes 94
Chapter 6 The Ancient Mediterranean: The View from the Customs House 97
I On the usefulness of the history of taxation 97
II Taxation and mobility 99
III Three phases of Mediterranean evidence 101
IV Managing interdependence: the nature of the network 105
V Progressive regression? 107
VI Athens and Rome: Mediterranean and other hegemonies 108
VII The edges of the system: conclusion 112
Notes 114
Chapter 7 Colonisation and Mediterranean History 121
I Introduction 121
II Agrosystems and seaways 122
III Frontiers and mobilities 126
IV The ‘most resettled land known’: the example of south Italy 130
V Conclusion: problems of focus 135
Notes 140
Chapter 8 The Mediterranean and the European Economy in the Early Middle Ages 149
I The Mediterranean and Europe 149
II Depressions? 150
III Communications 157
IV Oppressions 160
V Reckonings 162
Notes 165
Chapter 9 Water in Mediterranean History 170
Notes 181
Chapter 10 Tide, Beach, and Backwash: The Place of Maritime Histories 184
I Introductory 184
II Two problems with thalassography 187
III The beach: maritime onset – becoming maritime 193
IV The tide: maritime mobilisation 194
V The backwash: spaces of recursivity 196
VI A place of thalassography: the West Asian hinge 198
Notes 200
Chapter 11 Situations Both Alike?: Connectivity, the Mediterranean, the Sahara 204
Connectivity 205
Saharan routes 207
Modern routes 210
Nodes 211
Ramifications 213
Notes 214
Chapter 12 Mediterranean Connectivity: A Comparative Approach 219
I Changing horizons 219
II The Sahara 222
III The Silk Road 224
IV Europe 226
V Conclusion? 229
Notes 229
Index 232

"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"-- Provided by publisher

2024-06-27