• Mapping Global Middle Ages, Toward a Global Middle Ages

    Author(s):
    Asa Simon Mittman (see profile)
    Editor(s):
    Bryan C. Keene
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Medieval English Literature, Medieval Studies, The Medieval landscape/seascape
    Subject(s):
    Middle Ages, Maps in literature, Cartography, History
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Christian map, medieval maps, Medieval, Medieval studies, History of cartography
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/bbzb-w662
    Abstract:
    In Order to understand what a "global Middle Ages" might be, we need to define "global" in and in relation to the "Middle Ages." To do so, I turn to medieval (Christian) maps. Their construction of the world-the most, maybe all, others-was founded on inclusion and exclusion. In seeking to construct a global Middle Ages, the authors in this volume are therefore working not only against scholarly traditions of periodization but also against indigenous medieval ideas, against autochthonous ideologies. "Global Middle Ages" is a term that is gaining increasing currency as part of a welcome and much-overdue effort to acknowledge in teaching and research that the Middle Ages can encompass more geography than present-day Europe, more religions than Latin and Byzantine Christianity, and more humanity then whiteness. But what this term might mean is dependent on the lens we bring to the period, the geography, the people, and the material we study.
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    Publisher:
    J. Paul Getty Museum
    Pub. Date:
    September 3, 2019
    Book Title:
    Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts
    Editor(s):
    Bryan C. Keene
    Page Range:
    99 - 101
    ISBN:
    978-1606065983
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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