“Trading Goods and Exchanging Faiths in the Late Antique Red Sea”
Bard College Valentina Grasso
Wed, 2/28 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 103 Scheide Caldwell
Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity; Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
Beginning with an introduction to early global trade, my paper traces the arrival of monotheism in the Red Sea region through a comparative approach taking into account other nodal first-millennium regions (e.g., Central Asia) to reframe the complex interweaving of faith, identity, and economic activity during Late Antiquity.