Biographies of the Contributors

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Globalism in the Pre-Modern World? Questions, Challenges, and the Emergence of a New Approach to the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age 1
4. Global Inferno: Medieval Giants, Monsters, and the Breaching of the Great Barrier 99
5. Swords as Medieval Icons and Early “Global Brands” 147
6. Ecce! A Ninth-Century Isidorean T-O Map Labeled in Arabic 189
7. Going Rogue Across the Globe: International Vagrants, Outlaws, Bandits, and Tricksters from Medieval Europe, Asia, and the Middle East 221
8. Modifying Ancestral Memories in Post-Carolingian West Francia and Post-Tang Wuyue China 247
9. Scalping Saint Peter’s Head: An Interreligious Controversy over a Punishment from Baghdad to Rome (Eighth to Twelfth Centuries) 273
10. A Global Dialogue in al-Kindī’s “A Short Treatise on the Soul” 293
11. Globalism in Paul of Antioch’s Letter to a Muslim Friend and Its Refutation by Ibn Taymiyya 315
12. The Global Fable in the Middle Ages 351
13. 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 381
14. The Germanic Translations of Lanfranc’s Surgical Works as Example of Global Circulation of Knowledge 407
15. Brick by Brick: Constructing Identity at Don Lope Fernández de Luna’s Parroquieta at La Seo 445
16. Quello assalto di Otranto fu cagione di assai male. First Results of a Study of the Globalization in the Neapolitan Army in the 1480s 463
17. The Diplomat and the Public House: Ioannes Dantiscus (1485–1548) and His Use of the Inns, Taverns, and Alehouses of Europe 485
18. Globalism During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I 509
19. Between East and West: John Pory’s Translation of Leo Africanus’s Description of Africa 537
20. 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) 553
21. John Dee and the Creation of the British Empire 581
22. Eberhard Werner Happel: A Seventeenth-Century Cosmographer and Cosmopolitan 595
23. Globalism Before Modern Globalism 613
24. List of Illustrations 623
25. Biographies of the Contributors 627
26. Index 635