| Particularly refreshing is the adoption in this volume of the notion of Eurasia as an integral ecumene of economic and cultural interaction. |
| Instead, they constituted a “global ecumene,” involving a complex pattern of intermittent but numerous and profoundly consequential contacts. |
| Protector of the ecumene, also referred to as commander, was the rank of the supreme commander of the military forces of the Forerunner ecumene. |
| Studies look at how the Atlantic ecumene is refracted in and has influenced the Pacific ecumene. |
| Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses. |
| The appearance of print added a powerful new weapon to the arsenal of debate within the ecumene. |
