A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages

Published by ARC Humanities Press 2020

A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages

Edited by: Erik Hermans

In the series Companions

In the series Arc Companions

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781942401766

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About this book

This companion introduces the connections between early medieval societies that have previously been studied in isolation. By bringing together nineteen experts on different regions across the globe, from Oceania to Europe and beyond, it transcends conventional disciplinary boundaries and synthesizes parallel historiographical narratives. The period 600-900 CE witnessed important historical developments, such as the establishment of a Southeast Asian thalassocracy by the Shailendra dynasty and the expansion of the Frankish polity under Charlemagne on the far ends of Eurasia and the consolidation of the Abbasid and Tang empires in between. A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages integrates these contemporaneous processes and presents new insights into a neglected phase of world history.

Author / Editor information

Hermans Erik :

Erik Hermans (PhD, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU) is an independent scholar, currently based in Washington, DC.

Reviews

David S. Bachrach:
The present volume, therefore, is exceptionally welcome in that it brings together research by scholars with specialities in a very wide range of geo-political contexts and academic traditions. The decision by Erik Hermans, the editor of this volume, to limit its scope to the relatively brief period of c. 600 AD to c. 900 AD, has also proven quite fortuitous in that many of the essays provide overlapping coverage of the same questions and phenomena, but from different geo-political perspectives.[...] Overall, this is an exceptionally valuable volume, which will be of use to scholars across a wide sweep of fields. Many of the individual essays also will provide an easily accessible entrée to the political histories of non-western societies to graduate and even undergraduate students.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Erik Hermans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE: REGIONS
Chapter 1. East Africa Mark Horton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2. South Asia Kenneth R. Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Chapter 3. Southeast Asia John K. Whitmore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Chapter 4. Oceania Glenn R. Summerhayes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Chapter 5. Japan Ross Bender Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter 6. Korea Richard D. McBride Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Chapter 7. China Tineke D’Haeseleer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Chapter 8. Tibet Lewis Doney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Chapter 9. Inner Asia Michael R. Drompp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Chapter 10. West Asia Khodadad Rezakhani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Chapter 11. Byzantium Michael J. Decker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Chapter 12. Northeast Africa George Hatke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Chapter 13. Sahara and West Africa Sonja Magnavita Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Chapter 14. Western Europe Jennifer R. Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Chapter 15. Mesoamerica Heather McKillop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
PART TWO: PROCESSES
Chapter 16. Trade and Commerce Richard L. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
Chapter 17. Migration Johannes Preiser-Kapeller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
Chapter 18. Climate and Disease Peter Sarris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511
Chapter 19. Intellectual Connectivity Erik Hermans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	539
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	553

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 576
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 17
Keywords: Global Middle Ages; connectivity; Comparative History; World History; Early Middle Ages

eBook

Published: February 29, 2020
ISBN: 9781942401766