The ecumene must grow, of coruse, but it grows inwardly in intensity and meaning; its form cannot change.

The term for these areas of interaction differ from one world historian to another and include world-system and ecumene.

The True Believer sailed along the southernmost edge of the ecumene, the habitable and inhabited world.

"The Ecumene: Story of Humanity".

He has also written extensively on theory in cultural geography and edited for six years the journal Ecumene which publishes cross-disciplinary work on environment, culture and meaning.

The global area has a familiar name in Greek; it is called 'ecumene', a word from which the term ecology, care of the environment, is derived in numerous languages.

In the original Medieval Greek text the word is "ecumene", a term originally used in the Greco-Roman world to refer to the inhabited Earth.

Nations of Southeast Alaska and Georgia Strait-Puget Sound are included as they are part of the same cultural and historical ecumene.

The tripartite unity that is the ecumene would be broken: the habitable world-island, the single eye in the head that is the world-globe would be voided.

The Flood arrives and ravages Nomdagro as the Audacity and Mantle's Approach leave towards the greater Ark, now the last bastion of the ecumene.

The author J. R. R. Tolkien described his Middle-earth setting for his fiction as equivalent to the Greek ecumene, the abode of Men.

Curry, Jane, Balkan ecumene and synthesis in selected compositions for classical guitar by Bogdanovic, Mamangakis and Ian Krouse D.M.A. diss.

McNeill proposes that the basic engine of world history during this period is the temporary primacy of different regions of the ecumene, with a rough parity re-established as innovations spread to other centers of civilization.

In the Halo universe, more particularly in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and the Forerunner Saga novels, the Forerunner Ecumene spanned the galaxy more than 100,000 years ago.

Our little group has been involved in several sorts of investigations, foolish ones perhaps, to discover whether there are (or more importantly, to be sure that there are not) physical areas and creatures beyond those of th closed ecumene.

Hrvatsko Zagorje represented the natural ecumene for Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers through the whole period of the Pleistocene, and it is definitely a "cradle of Palaeolithic", not only for Croatia, but for the wider SE European area too."

Such behavior is more readily evident in upwardly mobile and educated black people who can afford to acquire status symbols within the world of the colonial ecumene, such as an education abroad and mastery of the language of the colonizer, the white masks.

Member of editorial boards: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Isis, Ecumene, Progress in Human Geography, Journal of Historical Geography, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews.

The Roman problem of rulership involved the unity of disparity - from Spanish to Greek, Macedonian to Carthaginian - Roman rule had extended itself across the breadth of the known world and the myriad pacified cultures forming this ecumene presented a new challenge for justice.