Western Perspectives on the Mediterranean

Andreas Fischer is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.Ian Wood is Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leeds, UK.

• IntroductionThe Burgundians and ByzantiumIan Wood (School of History, University of Leeds, Uk)'Avenger of All Perjury' in Constantinople, Ravenna and Metz: St Polyeuctus, Sigibert I and the Division OfCharibert's Kingdom in 568 Stefan Esders (Friedrich-meinecke-institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) The Historian as Cultural Broker in the Late and Post-roman West Helmut Reimitz (Department of History, Princeton University, USA)Rewriting History: Fredegar's Perspectives on the MediterraneanAndreas Fischer (Friedrich-meinecke-institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)Greek Popes: Yes or No, and Did It Matter? Thomas Noble (Department of History, University of Notre Dame, USA)Mediterranean Lessons for Northumbrian Monks in Bede's Chronica Maiora Sören Kaschke (Seminar Für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany)Index

Collectively, these six essays reveal vividly that the communication routes of the early medieval Mediterranean carried not only commodities, objects of devotion, and travelers themselves, but intangible cultural products as well.