Migration and identity in Eurasia. From ancient times to the middle ages - Victor Cojocaru Annamria-Izabella Pzsint

The volume Migration and Identity in Eurasia brings to the forefront two topical concepts in European historiography and beyond. In terms of the Antiquity and Early Middle Ages emphasis lay in recent decades on the impact of mobility and migration in the Greek and Roman world migration narratives experiences and structures migration and integration networks connectivity and cultural interactions politics of honour and civic identity in the Hellenistic and Roman world as well as on the archaeological study of migration concepts methods results scholarly traditions and political ideology especially in the case of those territories under political debate among various modern countries . The requested space limits impedes us to further discuss these or other aspects here however chronologically and geographically the ancient times and the Middle Ages provide a wide range of approaches for the study of the foreigner migrant and different patterns of inclusion and exclusion. As such above-mentioned research aspects may also be relevant for issues surfacing under different forms in the current development of society be it with reference to socio-economic political or cultural aspects. Excerpt from Preface