Recreating the Medieval Globe : : Acts of Recycling, Revision, and Relocation / / ed. by Hannah Weaver, Joseph Shack.

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 s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
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Place / Publishing House:Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2021]
©2020
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:The medieval globe
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Physical Description:1 online resource (174 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction to Recreating the Medieval Globe: Acts of Recycling, Revision, and Relocation
  • Self-​Revision and the Arabic Historical Tradition: Identifying Textual Reuse and Reorganization in the Works of al-​Balādhurī
  • When Curtains Fall: A Shape-​Shifting Silk of the Late Abbasid Period
  • Salvaging Meaning: The Art of Recycling in Sino-​Mongol Quanzhou, ca. 1276– 1408
  • Recontextualizing Indigenous Knowledge on the Prussian– Lithuanian Frontier, ca. 1380– 1410
  • Meubles: The Ever Mobile Middle Ages
  • Reflection
  • Index