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Global Middle Ages - An Introduction

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This Element explains the globalisms of a thousand years, and introduces the Cambridge Elements in the Global Middle Ages.

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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.

Summary

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.

Product details

Authors Geraldine Heng, Heng Geraldine
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.11.2021
 
EAN 9781009161169
ISBN 978-1-0-0916116-9
No. of pages 75
Series Elements in the Global Middle Ages
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

HISTORY / World, General & world history, General and world history

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