The Ocean of Mount Atlas: Atlantic History and/in the Ancient World
By Nicholas Purcell
The counterpointing of Mediterranean and Atlantic histories is a natural corollary of the particular trajectory of European power in the world from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and it has gained authority and fame from the contribution of Fernand Braudel to the theory and practice of both Mediterranean history and its supplanting by a new Atlantic order.
The Atlantic Histories of Late Antique Ireland
By Elva Johnston
This paper will offer a new analysis of Irish social communities between the first and fifth centuries CE (concentrating primarily on the fourth and fifth), situating the island within the material and interpretative parameters of the Roman Atlantic West.
Atlantic Commerce and Social Mobility in Southwestern Iberia
By Carlos F. Norena
This paper examines the recursive relationship between geography, commerce, wealth, and upward social mobility in southwestern Iberia, in the Roman imperial provinces of Baetica and Lusitania.
Building the Atlantic Super-Seaway in the Roman Period
By Greg Woolf
This paper argues that the Roman period saw a transformation of the maritime infrastructure of Atlantic Europe, with consequences that extended well beyond the end of the political unification of the region.