The Medieval Globe Books – serie
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11 produkter
Re-Assessing the Global Turn in Medieval Art History
Inbunden, 2018
2391 kr
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Study of the migration of motifs, materials, personnel, and finished objects in Eurasia has a long pedigree in medieval art history, and the broadening attention to material culture as an alternative to purely textually based historical accounts has been integral to reshaping the conception of an …
Seals - Making and Marking Connections across the Medieval World
Inbunden, 2019
2533 kr
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By placing medieval sealing practices in a global and comparative perspective, the essays gathered in this volume challenge the traditional understanding of seals as tools of closure and validation in use since the dawn of civilization. Far from being a universal technique, sealing is revealed as a …
Medieval Sicily, al-Andalus, and the Maghrib
Writing in Times of Turmoil
Av Nicola Carpentieri, Carol Symes
Inbunden, 2020
1964 kr
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This volume explores a millennium of multilingual literary exchanges among the peoples of Sicily, the Iberian Peninsula, and North Africa: the Maghrib, or westernmost strongholds of medieval Islam. Beginning in the seventh century, Muslim expansion into the western Mediterranean initiated a new …
Recreating the Medieval Globe
Acts of Recycling, Revision, and Relocation
Av Joseph Shack, Hannah Weaver
Inbunden, 2020
1964 kr
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The creative reuse of materials, texts, and ideas was a common phenomenon in the medieval world. The seven chapters offer here a synchronic and diachronic consideration of the receptions and meanings of events and artifacts, analyzing the processes that allowed medieval works to remain relevant in …
Global North
Spaces, Connections, and Networks before 1600
Av Carol Symes
Inbunden, 2021
1964 kr
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When Janet Abu-Lughod sketched the contours of a medieval “world system” in 1989, she located most communication networks in the southern hemisphere. In recent decades, however, new trends in research and new forms of evidence have complicated, enriched, and expanded this picture, geographically …
Practices of Commentary
Medieval Traditions and Transmissions
Av Amanda Goodman, Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Inbunden, 2023
2352 kr
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The comparative or connected study of localized intellectual traditions poses special challenges to the global turn in medieval studies. How can we enable conversations across language groups and intricate cultural formations, as well as disciplines? Practices of commentary offer a compelling …
New Evidence for the Dating and Impact of the Black Death in Asia
Av Robert Hymes, Monica H. Green m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1590 kr
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Since 2014, when The Medieval Globe first presented the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on the Black Death as a global pandemic, the pace and intensity of research has intensified. This follow-up volume features two extended essays laying out evidence that the Second Plague Pandemic was …
Medieval Strategies of Entreaty from North Africa to Eurasia
Inbunden, 2024
2106 kr
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This volume in The Medieval Globe Books series surveys the distinctive but also shared rhetorical practices that characterize written requests for intercession, support, and patronage across many languages, cultures, and forms of interaction. Examples range from mundane requests to diplomatic …
Shaping the Nation in Medieval Europe
Av Éloïse Adde
Inbunden, 2026
1964 kr
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This volume in The Medieval Globe book series explores a fundamental problem of European historiography within a global context: the history of medieval nations and the question of their relationship to modern nation-states. Focusing on the emerging or established societies of Christian Europe and …
Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World
Rethinking the Black Death
Inbunden, 2015
2818 kr
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This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism (Yersinia pestis) can allow a rethinking of the Black Death pandemic and its …
Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe
Inbunden, 2017
2391 kr
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Law has been a primary locus and vehicle of contact across human history—as a system of ideas embodied in people and enacted on bodies; and also as a material, textual, and sensory "thing." The seven essays gathered here analyze a variety of legal encounters on the medieval globe, ranging from …
