FOREWORD In Antiquity, the Mediterranean world was a common space of classical civili- tion. The Romans referred to the Mediterranean Sea as mare nostrum, or 'our sea'. In their minds, it did not so much geographically separate the northern and southern shores, but rather bound people and cultures together. It would not have struck them as remarkable that the greatest book inspired by the Sac of Rome in 410 was written by a bishop from the present-day Algeria, St. Augustine. Today, the gentle waves of the Mediterranean Sea no longer roll on the shores of one civilization. Centuries of...
FOREWORD In Antiquity, the Mediterranean world was a common space of classical civili- tion. The Romans referred to the Mediterranean Sea as mare nost...
