![]() What emerged was a picture of the Mediterranean region as one in which. Some structural changes are rapid while others move at an almost glacial pace. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Philip II. Braudel's concept of the longue duree became the framework for describing varying rates of change in the patterns and structures of the Mediterranean social world. The earlier consensus followed the work of Fernand Braudel (The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II ), in which the history of social patterns and structures replaced the more typical history of nations, wars, political developments and other events. The central issue, among both historians and ethnographers, has been finding "common denominators in the Mediterranean past which may serve to justify the systematic comparison of social, economic, and even cultural history across a wide arc of time that reaches from the Bronze Age to the edge of modernity" (10). Over the last forty years a modest paradigm shift has taken place in the historical study of the Mediterranean region. ![]() Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity. ![]()
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