Introduction: Movement and Mobility in the Medieval Mediterranean: Changing Perspectives from Late Antiquity to the Long-Twelfth Century
Christian Heath|Clemens Gantner|Edoardo Manarini
This article introduces the themed section Â»Movement and Mobility in Medieval Mediterranean: Changing Perspectives from Late Antiquity to Long-Twelfth CenturyÂ«. series of articles engages with ongoing debates historiography on role movement mobility socio-political frameworks medieval societies throughout Mediterranean world Iberia Near East. The papers introduced here consider a wide range contacts exchange diplomatic encounters late antique Byzantium via (religious) ideas spiritual objects Italy East fundamental capital, slaves goods. Rather than reveal static, ossified self-contained landscapes, this will argue that there were not only cross-cultural, religious political but also economic social connections fused into heterogenous contact zone cultures, products. Using broader framework as border region between across longue durÃ©e represented by period until end twelfth century allows contributions demonstrate movement, stasis after Rome expansion horizons rather their restriction.
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