Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age : : Innovative Approaches and Perspectives /

Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age : : Innovative Approaches and Perspectives / / ed. by Albrecht Classen.

Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful comparative and transdisciplinary studies, as this volume demonstrates, offering a wide range of innovative perspectives on often neglected literary, p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Abed, Sally,
Aldeeb, Najlaa R.,
Baddar, Maha,
Benati, Chiara,
Boukail, Amina,
Caparrini, Marialuisa,
Classen, Albrecht,
Dobek, Peter,
Donnarumma, Leo,
El-Sawy, Amany,
Fajardo-Acosta, Fidel,
Gan, Quan,
Gonzalbez, Nina Maria,
Lorenzo-Rodríguez, Abel,
Mahan, William,
Münster, Reinhold,
Pinto, Karen C.,
Samaké, Abdoulaye,
Tomíček, David,
Tormey, Warren,
Willard, Thomas,
HerausgeberIn:
Classen, Albrecht,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 27
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 643 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Globalism in the Pre-Modern World? Questions, Challenges, and the Emergence of a New Approach to the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
  • Global Inferno: Medieval Giants, Monsters, and the Breaching of the Great Barrier
  • Swords as Medieval Icons and Early “Global Brands”
  • Ecce! A Ninth-Century Isidorean T-O Map Labeled in Arabic
  • Going Rogue Across the Globe: International Vagrants, Outlaws, Bandits, and Tricksters from Medieval Europe, Asia, and the Middle East
  • Modifying Ancestral Memories in Post-Carolingian West Francia and Post-Tang Wuyue China
  • Scalping Saint Peter’s Head: An Interreligious Controversy over a Punishment from Baghdad to Rome (Eighth to Twelfth Centuries)
  • A Global Dialogue in al-Kindī’s “A Short Treatise on the Soul”
  • Globalism in Paul of Antioch’s Letter to a Muslim Friend and Its Refutation by Ibn Taymiyya
  • The Global Fable in the Middle Ages
  • Globalism in the Late Middle Ages: The Low German Niederrheinische Orientbericht as a Significant Outpost of a Paradigm Shift. The Move Away from Traditional Eurocentrism
  • The Germanic Translations of Lanfranc’s Surgical Works as Example of Global Circulation of Knowledge
  • Brick by Brick: Constructing Identity at Don Lope Fernández de Luna’s Parroquieta at La Seo
  • Quello assalto di Otranto fu cagione di assai male. First Results of a Study of the Globalization in the Neapolitan Army in the 1480s
  • The Diplomat and the Public House: Ioannes Dantiscus (1485–1548) and His Use of the Inns, Taverns, and Alehouses of Europe
  • Globalism During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
  • Between East and West: John Pory’s Translation of Leo Africanus’s Description of Africa
  • The Old and the New – Pepper, Bezoar, and Other Exotic Substances in Bohemian Narratives about Distant Lands from the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (up to the 1560s)
  • John Dee and the Creation of the British Empire
  • Eberhard Werner Happel: A Seventeenth-Century Cosmographer and Cosmopolitan
  • Globalism Before Modern Globalism
  • List of Illustrations
  • Biographies of the Contributors
  • Index

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