Centre for Motion and Connectivity in the Ancient World

Description

This Centre examines in what ways connectivity contributed to the shaping of distinctive cultures, economies and societies across the breadth of the Roman world and its neighbours. Through the long-lens of deep history, Roman civilisation marked a sharp surge in global connectivity, in terms of human migration, the movement of objects, and the existence of cultural sharing and global consciousness - the extent of which was not surpassed in Eurasia until the modern era. The Centre aims to explore the implications for living in what was a truly globalised and interconnected Roman world, as well as to determine the underlying agency behind such processes.

The Centre’s research focuses upon tracing pathways of motion – of people, objects, languages and ideas, from a variety of perspectives. In doing so, members aim to forge a radical departure from the methodological nationalism that has dominated research frameworks for the last century. In the place of these perspectives a new kind of history is proposed that takes mobility rather than states as its main point of departure. The Centre was created in 2015.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2015

Contact details

On the map

Go to larger version of this map

Categorisation

Type

Project Tags

University affiliation(s)

University of Exeter
Exeter