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

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Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

Innovative Approaches and Perspectives

Edited by: Albrecht Classen

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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Volume 27 | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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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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"Damit trägt er zum ‚global turn‘ der Geschichtswissenschaft bei: Er stellt nicht nur die zeitgenössische
Annahme in Frage, dass der Globalismus sehr jung ist, sondern auch die eingefahrene
Sichtweise des Eurozentrismus früherer Zeiten, was den Aufsätzen dringende Aktualität
verleiht. Darüber hinaus ist das Buch, das sowohl von Nachwuchsforscher_innen als
auch von etablierten Wissenschaftler_innen verfasst wurde, ein hervorragendes Beispiel
für globale, interdisziplinäre wissenschaftliche Forschung." Edward Djordjevic in: KULT_online. Review Journal for the Study of Culture 5/2024

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Globalism in the Pre-Modern World? Questions, Challenges, and the Emergence of a New Approach to the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
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Albrecht Classen

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Global Inferno: Medieval Giants, Monsters, and the Breaching of the Great Barrier
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Fidel Fajardo-Acosta

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Swords as Medieval Icons and Early “Global Brands”
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Warren Tormey

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Ecce! A Ninth-Century Isidorean T-O Map Labeled in Arabic
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Karen C. Pinto

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Going Rogue Across the Globe: International Vagrants, Outlaws, Bandits, and Tricksters from Medieval Europe, Asia, and the Middle East
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William Mahan

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Modifying Ancestral Memories in Post-Carolingian West Francia and Post-Tang Wuyue China
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Quan Gan

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Scalping Saint Peter’s Head: An Interreligious Controversy over a Punishment from Baghdad to Rome (Eighth to Twelfth Centuries)
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Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez

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A Global Dialogue in al-Kindī’s “A Short Treatise on the Soul”
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Maha Baddar

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Globalism in Paul of Antioch’s Letter to a Muslim Friend and Its Refutation by Ibn Taymiyya
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Najlaa R. Aldeeb

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The Global Fable in the Middle Ages
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Abdoulaye Samaké and Amina Boukail

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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
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Albrecht Classen

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The Germanic Translations of Lanfranc’s Surgical Works as Example of Global Circulation of Knowledge
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Chiara Benati and Marialuisa Caparrini

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Brick by Brick: Constructing Identity at Don Lope Fernández de Luna’s Parroquieta at La Seo
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Nina Maria Gonzalbez

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Quello assalto di Otranto fu cagione di assai male. First Results of a Study of the Globalization in the Neapolitan Army in the 1480s
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Leo Donnarumma

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The Diplomat and the Public House: Ioannes Dantiscus (1485–1548) and His Use of the Inns, Taverns, and Alehouses of Europe
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Globalism During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
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Amany El-Sawy

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Between East and West: John Pory’s Translation of Leo Africanus’s Description of Africa
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Sally Abed

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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)
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David Tomíček

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John Dee and the Creation of the British Empire
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Thomas Willard

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Eberhard Werner Happel: A Seventeenth-Century Cosmographer and Cosmopolitan
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Reinhold Münster

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Globalism Before Modern Globalism
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Albrecht Classen

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List of Illustrations
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Biographies of the Contributors
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September 5, 2023

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pre-modern globalism; travel literature; inter-religious dialog; economic globalism

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Literary scholars, historians, medical historians, art historians, scholars of religion, political historians

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Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

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About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Globalism in the Pre-Modern World? Questions, Challenges, and the Emergence of a New Approach to the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

Global Inferno: Medieval Giants, Monsters, and the Breaching of the Great Barrier

Swords as Medieval Icons and Early “Global Brands”

Ecce! A Ninth-Century Isidorean T-O Map Labeled in Arabic

Going Rogue Across the Globe: International Vagrants, Outlaws, Bandits, and Tricksters from Medieval Europe, Asia, and the Middle East

Modifying Ancestral Memories in Post-Carolingian West Francia and Post-Tang Wuyue China

Scalping Saint Peter’s Head: An Interreligious Controversy over a Punishment from Baghdad to Rome (Eighth to Twelfth Centuries)

A Global Dialogue in al-Kindī’s “A Short Treatise on the Soul”

Globalism in Paul of Antioch’s Letter to a Muslim Friend and Its Refutation by Ibn Taymiyya

The Global Fable in the Middle Ages

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

The Germanic Translations of Lanfranc’s Surgical Works as Example of Global Circulation of Knowledge

Brick by Brick: Constructing Identity at Don Lope Fernández de Luna’s Parroquieta at La Seo

Quello assalto di Otranto fu cagione di assai male. First Results of a Study of the Globalization in the Neapolitan Army in the 1480s

The Diplomat and the Public House: Ioannes Dantiscus (1485–1548) and His Use of the Inns, Taverns, and Alehouses of Europe

Globalism During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I

Between East and West: John Pory’s Translation of Leo Africanus’s Description of Africa

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)

John Dee and the Creation of the British Empire

Eberhard Werner Happel: A Seventeenth-Century Cosmographer and Cosmopolitan

Globalism Before Modern Globalism

List of Illustrations

Biographies of the Contributors

Index

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