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Pendant quelque trois mille ans, le bassin méditerranéen a été un foyer de civilisation de premier ordre. Il a exercé une influence majeure sur les affaires du monde. David Abulafia retrace ici l’histoire d’une mer à hauteur d’homme, de la guerre de Troie à la piraterie, des batailles navales entre Carthage et Rome à la diaspora juive des mondes hellénistiques, de la montée de l’Islam aux Grands Tours du XIXe siècle jusqu’au tourisme de masse du XXe siècle.Plutôt que d’imposer une unité artificielle à l’activité foisonnante qui se déroule à la surface de la "Grande Mer", David Abulafia insiste sur sa diversité, qu’elle soit ethnique, linguistique, religieuse ou politique. Au cœur de sa thèse se trouve l’idée que la prospérité de cités maritimes telles qu’Alexandrie, Trieste, Salonique, Venise et beaucoup d’autres, a reposé pour une large part sur leur capacité à accueillir peuples, religions et identités et à leur permettre de coexister : la Méditerranée a incarné pendant des millénaires ce lieu exceptionnel où religions, économies et systèmes politiques se sont rencontrés, affrontés, influencés et finalement assimilés.

Intercultural communication --- Histoire --- Mediterranean Region --- Mediterranean Region --- Mediterranean Sea --- Méditerranée

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"In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed-why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared foreverAt the end of the acclaimed history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone by invasion, revolt, natural disasters, famine, and the demise of international trade. An interconnected world that had boasted major empires and societies, relative peace, robust commerce, and monumental architecture was lost and the so-called First Dark Age had begun. Now, in After 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the compelling story of what happened next, over four centuries, across the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean world. It is a story of resilience, transformation, and success, as well as failures, in an age of chaos and reconfiguration.After 1177 B.C. tells how the collapse of powerful Late Bronze Age civilizations created new circumstances to which people and societies had to adapt. Those that failed to adjust disappeared from the world stage, while others transformed themselves, resulting in a new world order that included Phoenicians, Philistines, Israelites, Neo-Hittites, Neo-Assyrians, and Neo-Babylonians. Taking the story up to the resurgence of Greece marked by the first Olympic Games in 776 B.C., the book also describes how world-changing innovations such as the use of iron and the alphabet emerged amid the chaos. Filled with lessons for today about why some societies survive massive shocks while others do not, After 1177 B.C. reveals why this period, far from being the First Dark Age, was a new age with new inventions and new opportunities." "In a follow-up to 1177 BC, this book provides a portrait of the 400 years following the collapse of the Bronze Age, a period referred to as the First Dark Age, but which Cline will show was also an era of rebirth and resilience."

Iron age. --- HISTORY / Ancient / General --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology --- Mediterranean Region --- Civilization. --- History

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"This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the sixteenth century. It includes chapters not only on romances that were written and read in the broader Byzantine world but also on literary texts from regions around the Mediterranean Sea. The volume offers new insights and covers a variety of interrelated subjects concerning the narrative representations of self-identities, gender, and communities, the perception of political and cultural otherness, and the interaction of space and time with identity formation. The chapters focus on texts from the Byzantine, western European, and Ottoman worlds, thus promoting a cross-cultural approach that highlights the role of the Mediterranean as a shared environment that facilitated communications, cultural interaction, and the trading and reconfiguration of identities. The volume will appeal to a wide audience of researchers and students alike specializing or simply interested in cultural studies, Byzantine, western medieval, and Ottoman history and literature"--

Romances, Byzantine --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Roman courtois byzantin --- Identité dans la littérature. --- Narration. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Mediterranean Region --- Intellectual life.