The Global Middle Ages
The Global Middle Ages
An Introduction
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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 this relatively new field of academic endeavor. An Introduction surveys the considerable gains to be had in developing a critical early global studies, and introduces the collaborative work of the Cambridge Elements series in the Global Middle Ages.
Product details
December 2021Paperback
9781009161169
75 pages
229 × 151 × 4 mm
0.12kg
Not yet published - available from February 2025
Table of Contents
- 1. The Introductory Elements in the Global Middle Ages Series
- 2. All Good Things Have a Beginning: The When, How, and What of the 'Global Middle Ages'
- 3. 'An Idea Whose Time Has Come': Why the Global Turn in Premodern Studies Matters
- 4. Rethinking Time, Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, Modernity and Premodernity
- 5. Attending to Local, National, Regional, Global: The Politics of Intertwined, Interlocking Scales of Relation
- 6. What is Early Globalism? The World, the Globe, and the Planet, Part One
- 7. What's in a Name? The European 'Middle Ages', the 'Global Middle Ages', and Premodern Time around the Globe
- 8. Why Periodization Still Matters: Acknowledging Epistemic Shifts and Differences across Time
- 9. Globalization, Globalism, World-Systems: The Planet, the Globe, and the World, Part Two
- 10. Globalization: A Name for Today, but Not for All Time
- 11. World-Systems: The Why, the When, and the What
- 12. Worlds of Differences: The Cambridge Elements on the Global Middle Ages
- Collaboration, Experimentation, and an Open-Ended Process.
