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Slavery in East Asia
Av Don J. Wyatt
Häftad, 2023
317 kr
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In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranting little examination, as the power and profits it afforded to the slaver made it a convention …
Swahili Worlds in Globalism
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Element discusses a medieval African urban society as a product of interactions among African communities who inhabited the region between 100 BCE and 500 CE. It deviates from standard approaches that credit urbanism and state in Africa to non-African agents. East Africa, then and now, was …
'Ethiopia' and the World, 330-1500 CE
Av Yonatan Binyam, Verena Krebs
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Cambridge Element offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the histories of the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands from late antiquity to the late medieval period, updating traditional Western academic perspectives. Early scholarship, often by philologists and religious scholars, upheld …
Global Medievalism
An Introduction
Av Helen Young, Kavita Mudan Finn
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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The typical vision of the Middle Ages western popular culture represents to its global audience is deeply Eurocentric. The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones imagined entire medievalist worlds, but we see only a fraction of them through the stories and travels of the characters. Organised around …
The Global Middle Ages
An Introduction
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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The Global Middle Ages: An Introduction discusses how, when, and why a 'global Middle Ages' was conceptualized; explains and considers the terms that are deployed in studying, teaching, and researching a Global Middle Ages; and critically reflects on the issues that arise in the establishment of …
Elephants and Ivory in China and Spain
Av John Beusterien, Stephen West
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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The Element provides a global history of ivory and elephants, acknowledging the individuality and dignity of the elephants that provided that ivory. Sections on China include the first translations of texts about the cultural importance of elephants and ivory in the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and an …
Early Tang China and the World, 618-750 CE
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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For about half a century, the Tang dynasty has held a reputation as the most 'cosmopolitan' period in Chinese history, marked by unsurpassed openness to foreign peoples and cultures and active promotion of international trade. Heavily influenced by Western liberal ideals and contemporary China's …
Early Globalism and Chinese Literature
Av Yuanfei Wang, Victor H. Mair
Häftad, 2026
324 kr
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Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes two primary forms. The first is Buddhist literary diffusion, whose revolutionary impact on Chinese language and literature is illustrated through scriptural translation, transformation …
Global Ships
Seafaring, Shipwrecks, and Boatbuilding in the Global Middle Ages
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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Global Ships examines the major seafaring traditions and technologies that engendered long-distance connections across the world's oceans during the Global Middle Ages. Between the years 500-1500 CE, maritime trade networks spanning the seas globalized commodities, religions, and trade diasporas in …
The Chertsey Tiles, the Crusades, and Global Textile Motifs
Häftad, 2023
317 kr
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While visual cultures mingled comfortably along the silk roads and on the shores of the Mediterranean, medieval England has sometimes been viewed - by both medieval and more recent writers - as isolated. In this Element the author introduces new evidence to show that this understanding of medieval …
Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300-1400
Av Patricia Blessing, Elizabeth Dospěl Williams m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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This study considers the textiles made, traded, and exchanged across Eurasia from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages with special attention to the socio-political and cultural aspects of this universal medium. It presents a wide range of textiles used in both domestic and religious settings, as …
Late Tang China and the World, 750-907 CE
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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In recent decades, the Tang dynasty (618-907) has acquired a reputation as the most 'cosmopolitan' period in Chinese history. The standard narrative also claims that this cosmopolitan openness faded after the An Lushan Rebellion of 755-763, to be replaced by xenophobic hostility toward all things …
The Immersive Global Middle Ages
Av Lynn T. Ramey, Roger L. Martínez-Dávila
Häftad, 2026
253 kr
Kommande
The Immersive Global Middle Ages emerges from a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded institute that explored how immersive digital environments can transform research and teaching about the global Middle Ages. Recognizing the medieval world as interconnected and culturally diverse, this …
Islamicate Environments
Water, Land, Plants, and Society
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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Islam burst forth from Arabia in the seventh century and spread with astonishing speed and force into the Middle East, Asia and northern Africa and the Mediterranean. While its success as a dominant culture has often been attributed to military strength, astute political organization, and religious …
Islamicate Environments
Water, Land, Plants, and Society
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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Islam burst forth from Arabia in the seventh century and spread with astonishing speed and force into the Middle East, Asia and northern Africa and the Mediterranean. While its success as a dominant culture has often been attributed to military strength, astute political organization, and religious …
The Chertsey Tiles, the Crusades, and Global Textile Motifs
Inbunden, 2023
938 kr
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While visual cultures mingled comfortably along the silk roads and on the shores of the Mediterranean, medieval England has sometimes been viewed - by both medieval and more recent writers - as isolated. In this Element the author introduces new evidence to show that this understanding of medieval …
Global Ships
Seafaring, Shipwrecks, and Boatbuilding in the Global Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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Global Ships examines the major seafaring traditions and technologies that engendered long-distance connections across the world's oceans during the Global Middle Ages. Between the years 500-1500 CE, maritime trade networks spanning the seas globalized commodities, religions, and trade diasporas in …
Swahili Worlds in Globalism
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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This Element discusses a medieval African urban society as a product of interactions among African communities who inhabited the region between 100 BCE and 500 CE. It deviates from standard approaches that credit urbanism and state in Africa to non-African agents. East Africa, then and now, was …
Early Globalism and Chinese Literature
Av Yuanfei Wang, Victor H. Mair
Inbunden, 2026
1048 kr
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Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes two primary forms. The first is Buddhist literary diffusion, whose revolutionary impact on Chinese language and literature is illustrated through scriptural translation, transformation …
'Ethiopia' and the World, 330-1500 CE
Av Yonatan Binyam, Verena Krebs
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Cambridge Element offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the histories of the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands from late antiquity to the late medieval period, updating traditional Western academic perspectives. Early scholarship, often by philologists and religious scholars, upheld …
The Global Legend of Prester John
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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The Global Legend of Prester John delves into the enduring fascination with Prester John, an unreachable, collectively-imagined Christian priest-king who figured prominently in Europe's entrance into an interconnected global world. This Element draws on "The International Prester John Project," an …
The Global Legend of Prester John
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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The Global Legend of Prester John delves into the enduring fascination with Prester John, an unreachable, collectively-imagined Christian priest-king who figured prominently in Europe's entrance into an interconnected global world. This Element draws on "The International Prester John Project," an …
Elephants and Ivory in China and Spain
Av John Beusterien, Stephen West
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Element provides a global history of ivory and elephants, acknowledging the individuality and dignity of the elephants that provided that ivory. Sections on China include the first translations of texts about the cultural importance of elephants and ivory in the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and an …
The Immersive Global Middle Ages
Av Lynn T. Ramey, Roger L. Martínez-Dávila
Inbunden, 2026
798 kr
Kommande
The Immersive Global Middle Ages emerges from a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded institute that explored how immersive digital environments can transform research and teaching about the global Middle Ages. Recognizing the medieval world as interconnected and culturally diverse, this …
Death Rituals
The Rūs and 'Vikings' in Arabic and Persian
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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In the study of the early medieval Rūs and the Viking diaspora, Arabic geographical writings on the practice of funerary sacrifice loom large. Against growing uses of this body of source material as evidence on ritual, the treatment of women, and the global connections of the Rūs, critical issues …
Death Rituals
The Rūs and 'Vikings' in Arabic and Persian
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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In the study of the early medieval Rūs and the Viking diaspora, Arabic geographical writings on the practice of funerary sacrifice loom large. Against growing uses of this body of source material as evidence on ritual, the treatment of women, and the global connections of the Rūs, critical issues …
Teaching Early Global Literatures and Cultures
Häftad, 2025
275 kr
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Teaching Early Global Literatures and Cultures is a guide to the terra incognita of the global literature classroom. It begins with a framing rationale for why it is valuable to teach early global literatures today; critically surveys the issues involved in such teaching; supplies details of some …
Teaching Early Global Literatures and Cultures
Inbunden, 2025
854 kr
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Teaching Early Global Literatures and Cultures is a guide to the terra incognita of the global literature classroom. It begins with a framing rationale for why it is valuable to teach early global literatures today; critically surveys the issues involved in such teaching; supplies details of some …
A Franciscan Tombstone in Fourteenth-Century China
A Global History
Av Nancy Wu
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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This Element examines the tombstone for Andrew of Perugia (d. 1332?), the sole surviving object from the 14C Franciscan mission in China. The narrative begins in Zayton, where diverse groups brought to this maritime entrepot old antagonisms and new alliances. The discovery of Andrew's tombstone and …
A Franciscan Tombstone in Fourteenth-Century China
A Global History
Av Nancy Wu
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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This Element examines the tombstone for Andrew of Perugia (d. 1332?), the sole surviving object from the 14C Franciscan mission in China. The narrative begins in Zayton, where diverse groups brought to this maritime entrepot old antagonisms and new alliances. The discovery of Andrew's tombstone and …
