Call for Papers (2023.1) - Dossier "Ancient Mediterranean’s Models of interpretation"

          In the last decades, studies on Ancient History — and historical studies in general — have been deeply transformed by incorporating new objects/evidence and new methods of interpretation. In other words, researchers have been posing new questions to old studying objects, whether they are the result of the incorporation of new documents, such as those brought to light by archaeology or because these questions compose an update, or a extension, of old questions.

          New research questions to old objects pushes the field to renew itself. Since the publication of Corrupting Sea (2000), by Nicholas Purcell and Peregrine Horden, dedicated to the studies of Mediterranean History, space has become a key element for the understanding of the Ancient World in Classical Studies and differing from Fernand Braudel’s Mediterranean History. The sea was no longer the stage of the History – as in Braudel’s interpretation – but the researchers started to study the History of the Sea. These premises of the History of the Mediterranean and the process of Mediterraneanization have being expanded and created new works that are dealing with i) either a more globalizing history — which envisions studies that articulate the peoples of the shores of the Mediterranean with peoples that occupy other areas —; ii) or with the formation of social networks resulting from the process of integration of the Mediterranean space. In the first case, we have the strong influence of methodologies and debates related to Global History, approaching processes of integration, disintegration and crises, experienced and faced by different human groups in key moments of Antiquity. In the second, we have increasingly seen the instrumental apparatus of Social Network Analysis integrating researches about the formation of networks of different dimensions and scales, which are formed and modified in throughout Antiquity.

          In this sense, it is possible to ask: to which extent this “turn” in studies of pre-capitalist worlds is accompanied by new methodologies and new instrumental apparatus? What are the limits of these new perspectives and methods of analysis? The current issue of the Mare Nostrum proposes this reflection and encourages the submission of contributions that deal with methodological issues of this nature and/or that debate new approaches and new methodologies for interpreting the Ancient World, with special emphasis on methodologies of Global History and Social Network Analysis. We invite researchers from different areas of knowledge to send their contributions to this important theoretical-methodological debate. The journal's space is open both for bibliographic reviews and for the presentation of studies that present the application of methods that dialogue with the theme discussed here.

 

Organizers:

Dr. Norberto Luiz Guarinello (USP)

Dr. Bruno dos Santos Silva (USP)

Dr. Thais Rocha da Silva (USP/Oxford University)

 

Submission deadline: May 31, 2023

 

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