Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past

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.

Preface ; 1. Strong ties, networks and the diffusion of new ideas: who do you trust?; Part I. Sanctuaries-- 2. "Orientalising" Networks and the Nude Standing Female: Synchronic and Diachronic Dimensions of Ideology Transfer; 3. Weak and strong ties in the diffusion of coinage during the Greek Archaic period; 4. The Samothracian diaspora in network perspective: Strong ties and deep habits; Part II. Storytelling-- 5. Ritual ties, ‘portable communities’ and the transmission of common knowledge through festival networks in the Hellenistic world; 6. A Network Analysis of the Mithraic Tauroctony: Local Innovation and Diversity in Roman Mithras-Worship; 7. Networks, Apostolic Itineraries, and Mediterranean Witnesses to the Oral Traditions of South India; Part III. Systems-- 8. Networking Christians? The spread of Christianity in the Eastern Mediterranean; 9. Strong Ties and Ecclesiastical Law in the Later Roman Empire; 10. Orthodox and heterodox networks: lollardy, neighbourhood and topography in early fifteenth-century Bristol; Index.