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

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

Innovative Approaches and Perspectives

Edited by: Albrecht Classen

Volume 27 in the series Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111190228

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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, philosophical, historical, or medical documents. Texts, images, ideas, knowledge, and objects migrated throughout the world already in the pre-modern world, even if the quantitative level compared to the modern world might have been different. In fact, by means of translations and trade, for instance, global connections were established and maintained over the centuries. Archetypal motifs developed in many literatures indicate how much pre-modern people actually shared. But we also discover hard-core facts of global economic exchange, import of exotic medicine, and, on another level, intensive intellectual debates on religious issues. Literary evidence serves best to expose the extent to which contacts with people in foreign countries were imaginable, often desirable, and at times feared, of course. The pre-modern world was much more on the move and reached out to distant lands out of curiosity, economic interests, and political and military concerns. Diplomats crisscrossed the continents, and artists, poets, and craftsmen traveled widely. We can identify, for instance, both the Vikings and the Arabs as global players long before the rise of modern globalism, so this volume promises to rewrite many of our traditional notions about pre-modern worldviews, economic conditions, and the literary sharing on a global level, as perhaps best expressed by the genre of the fable.

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Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Globalism in the Pre-Modern World? Questions, Challenges, and the Emergence of a New Approach to the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Global Inferno: Medieval Giants, Monsters, and the Breaching of the Great Barrier Fidel Fajardo-Acosta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Swords as Medieval Icons and Early “Global Brands” Warren Tormey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Ecce! A Ninth-Century Isidorean T-O Map Labeled in Arabic Karen C. Pinto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Going Rogue Across the Globe: International Vagrants, Outlaws, Bandits, and Tricksters from Medieval Europe, Asia, and the Middle East William Mahan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Modifying Ancestral Memories in Post-Carolingian West Francia and Post-Tang Wuyue China Quan Gan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Scalping Saint Peter’s Head: An Interreligious Controversy over a Punishment from Baghdad to Rome (Eighth to Twelfth Centuries) Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
A Global Dialogue in al-Kindī’s “A Short Treatise on the Soul” Maha Baddar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Globalism in Paul of Antioch’s Letter to a Muslim Friend and Its Refutation by Ibn Taymiyya Najlaa R. Aldeeb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
The Global Fable in the Middle Ages Abdoulaye Samaké and Amina Boukail Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
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 Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
The Germanic Translations of Lanfranc’s Surgical Works as Example of Global Circulation of Knowledge Chiara Benati and Marialuisa Caparrini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
Brick by Brick: Constructing Identity at Don Lope Fernández de Luna’s Parroquieta at La Seo Nina Maria Gonzalbez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
Quello assalto di Otranto fu cagione di assai male. First Results of a Study of the Globalization in the Neapolitan Army in the 1480s Leo Donnarumma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
The Diplomat and the Public House: Ioannes Dantiscus (1485–1548) and His Use of the Inns, Taverns, and Alehouses of Europe Peter Dobek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
Globalism During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I Amany El-Sawy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	509
Between East and West: John Pory’s Translation of Leo Africanus’s Description of Africa Sally Abed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	537
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) David Tomíček Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	553
John Dee and the Creation of the British Empire Thomas Willard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	581
Eberhard Werner Happel: A Seventeenth-Century Cosmographer and Cosmopolitan Reinhold Münster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	595
Globalism Before Modern Globalism Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	613
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	623
Biographies of the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	627
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	635

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Literary scholars, historians, medical historians, art historians, scholars of religion, political historians
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 643
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 9
- Coloured Illustrations: 21
Keywords: pre-modern globalism; travel literature; inter-religious dialog; economic globalism

eBook

Published: September 5, 2023
ISBN: 9783111190228

Hardcover

Published: September 5, 2023
ISBN: 9783111189079