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Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past: Strong Ties, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange book cover

1st Edition

Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past Strong Ties, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange

Edited By Anna Collar Copyright 2022
316 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

316 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

316 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past: Strong Ties, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange gathers contributions from an international group of scholars to reconsider the role that strong social ties play in the transmission of new ideas, and their crucial place in network analyses of the past. Drawing on case studies that range from the early Iron Age Mediterranean to medieval Britain,... Read more

Preface;

  1. Strong ties, networks and the diffusion of new ideas: who do you trust?

    2. Anna Collar

    Part I. Sanctuaries

  2. "Orientalising" Networks and the Nude Standing Female: Synchronic and Diachronic Dimensions of Ideology Transfer
    Megan Daniels

    3.

  3. Weak and strong ties in the diffusion of coinage during the Greek Archaic period

    4. John Mooring

  4. The Samothracian diaspora in network perspective: Strong ties and deep habits

    5. Sandra Blakely and Joanna Mundy

    Part II. Storytelling

  5. Ritual ties, ‘portable communities’ and the transmission of common knowledge through festival networks in the Hellenistic world

    6. Christina G. Williamson

  6. A　Network Analysis of the Mithraic Tauroctony: Local Innovation and Diversity in Roman Mithras-Worship

    7. Kevin Stoba

  7. Networks, Apostolic Itineraries, and Mediterranean Witnesses to the Oral Traditions of South India

    8. Nathanael Andrade

    Part III. Systems

  8. Networking Christians? The spread of Christianity in the Eastern Mediterranean

    9. Rebecca Sweetman

  9. Strong Ties and Ecclesiastical Law in the Later Roman Empire
    Kilian Mallon

    10.

  10. Orthodox and heterodox networks: lollardy, neighbourhood and topography in early fifteenth-century Bristol

Esther Lewis

Index

Biography

Anna Collar is a Lecturer in Roman Archaeology at the University of Southampton and a founder of The Connected Past international research network and conference series. Her research explores the material culture of religion; social networks; and landscape, mobility, and emotion.

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