Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds

Mirela Ivanova is a Junior Research Fellow at University College, Oxford. Her research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on ideas about writing and literacy.Hugh Jeffery is a Career Development Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is an archaeologist focusing on material culture in Western Asia Minor from the sixth through to the twelfth century.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Maps and IllustrationsContributorsIntroductionMirela Ivanova and Hugh JefferyPart 1: Movement of People1 Evidence for Female Pilgrims at Abu MinaGrace Stafford2 Travelling Painters’ Workshops in the Late Antique Levant: Preliminary ObservationsJulia Burdajewicz3 A New Pilgrimage Site at Late Antique Ephesus. Transfer of Religious Ideas in Western Asia MinorKatinka Sewing4 “Slavery” outside the Slave Trade. The Movement and Status of Captives between Byzantine Calabria and the Islamic WorldAdele CurnessPart 2: Transmitting Traditions5 ‘This Shocking Lobster’: Understanding the Fantastic Creatures of the Armenian Alexander RomanceAlex MacFarlane6 Mauropous as Menander’s Student of Rhetoric. An Exile ProgymnasmaJovana Anđelković7 Reappraising the Arabic Accounts for the Conflict of 446/1054–5. An Egyptian Perspective on Constantine IX and His Immediate SuccessorsMathew Barber8 The Apparition of Leo of Chalcedon. Anna Komnene’s Reproduction of a Lost Family Account of the DoukaiPetér BaraPart 3: Contact9 The Evidence of Byzantine Sgraffito Ware in 12th-Century Sicily. A Case Study into Economic and Socio-cultural Connections between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and Komnenian Greece?Matteo G. Randazzo10 Between East Rome and Armenia: Paulician Ethnogenesis c.780–850Carl Dixon11 By Land or by Sea: Tracing the Adoption of Cotton in the Economies of the MediterraneanAnna Kelleyindex