The Boundless Sea

Peregrine Horden is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and an Extraordinary Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is co-author, with Nicholas Purcell, of The Corrupting Sea (2000) and of its forthcoming successor. He co-edited with Sharon Kinoshita A Companion to Mediterranean History (2014). Two volumes of his Collected Studies on the history of medicine and charity are published by Routledge, and he is also writing a history of early hospitals. Nicholas Purcell is Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford and Fellow of Brasenose College. He is co-author, with Peregrine Horden, of The Corrupting Sea (2000) and of its forthcoming successor. He has also written extensively on the social, cultural, and economic history of the city of Rome in Antiquity, and of ancient Italy. In 2012, he gave the Sather Classical Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on buying and selling in the Greek and Roman worlds, and is currently preparing them for publication.

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Fixity
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The Ancient Mediterranean: The View from the Customs House
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Colonisation and Mediterranean History
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The Mediterranean and the European Economy in the Early Middle Ages
Not previously published





Water in Mediterranean History
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Tide, Beach, and Backwash: The Place of Maritime Histories
The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography, ed. P. N. Miller (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013), pp. 84–108





Situations Both Alike? Connectivity, the Mediterranean, the Sahara
Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa, ed. J. McDougall and J. Scheele (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012), pp. 25–38









Mediterranean Connectivity: A Comparative Approach
New Horizons: Mediterranean Research in the 21st Century, ed. M. Dabag, D. Haller, N. Jaspert, and A. Lichtenberger (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink/Ferdinand Schöningh, 2016), pp. 211–24







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