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TRANSMARE. Maritime Studies and the Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas from Antiquity to the Present

  • Edited by: Ulrike Gehring and Christoph Schäfer
eISSN: 2943-7784
ISSN: 2943-7776
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TRANSMARE | Maritime Studies is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and cross-epochal series publishing innovative research that contributes to current debates on maritime history, issues and concepts ranging from the ancient world to the present day. The series is associated with the TRANSMARE Institute at Trier University, but invites contributions from external authors and editors wishing to publish on relevant topics of maritime research.

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Volume 1 in this series

The dangers and risks lurking in the deep waters of the world, be they profane and natural (storms, currents, shoals, cliffs, pirates) or divine and supernatural (the wrath of one or more gods, magic, sea monsters) are as individual and diverse as the stories of their consequences – and as numerous as the intentions behind these retellings and reconfigurations. In their telling, specific dangers become accepted risks that those who undertake the venture of a sea voyage choose (or not) to expose themselves to. Maritime actors make their assessments of the balance between risk and benefit according to historical and contemporary cultural criteria, which are contingent on the discursive horizon of their time, as reflected in iconographic and textual sources. Building on sociological and historical understandings of "risk" as conscious exposure to specific dangers, the case studies in this volume engage with conceptions and discourses of maritime risks in written and visual media from antiquity to the early modern world, with contributions ranging from early Greek epic to British Atlantic merchants in the 1700s. This broad perspective enables a multifaceted study of representations of maritime dangers in words, images, and numbers, and to discuss contemporary discourses on causes, consequences, and methods for avoidance of maritime risk.

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Volume 2 in this series

Wie organisierten sich Familien und Haushalte in antiken Gesellschaften, in denen Männer häufig lange auf See, im Krieg oder mit Viehherden unterwegs waren? Welche sozialen Strukturen entwickelten sich in deren Abwesenheit – und welche wirtschaftlichen Rollen nahmen Frauen dabei ein?

Die Studie untersucht die Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Völkerschaften an der östlichen Adriaküste – in Epirus, Illyrien und Liburnien – vom 4 Jhd v. Chr. bis ins 1. Jhd n. Chr. Anhand von Freilassungs- und Grabinschriften, Orakeltafeln und literarischen Zeugnissen analysiert sie Haushaltsstrukturen, Heiratsmuster, Eigentumsverhältnisse und Geschlechterrollen. Zentral ist dabei die Frage, wie sich männliche Mobilität und weibliche Handlungsmacht aufeinander beziehen – und welche Formen von Familienleben jenseits griechisch-römischer Normen entstanden.

Mit ihrem interdisziplinären Zugriff auf epigraphische, literarische und ethnologische Vergleichsquellen bietet die Arbeit einen innovativen Beitrag zurantiken Sozial- und maritimen Kulturgeschichte des westlichen Balkans. Als Band der Reihe TRANSMARE verbindet sie Sozialgeschichte mit maritimer Mobilitätsforschung und eröffnet neue Perspektiven auf familiäre Alltagswelten im westlichen Balkanraum.

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