Entre mers—Outre-mer. Spaces, Modes and Agents of Indo-Mediterranean Connectivity

Abstract: The history of individual seascapes has recently become a vibrant and innovative field of research. Yet, connections between seas (entre mers) and imaginations of lands „beyond the Sea“ (Outre-mers) have only rarely been focused in these contexts. This is the main aim of the present collection of essays, which goes back to a conference held at Heidelberg University. The individual papers treat various aspects of transmarine connections, their regulation and mental expansion in an Indo-Mediterranean context which comprises the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean as well as projections of seaways, spanning a wide chronological spectrum reaching from Egyptian antiquity to the onset of the Atlantic Age in the sixteenth century.