Recreating the Medieval Globe

Acts of Recycling, Revision, and Relocation
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-64189-425-8
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 181 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: The Medieval Globe Books

The creative reuse of materials, texts, and ideas was a common phenomenon in the medieval world. The seven chapters offer here a synchronic and diachronic consideration of the receptions and meanings of events and artifacts, analyzing the processes that allowed medieval works to remain relevant in sociocultural contexts far removed from those in which they originated. In the process, they elucidate the global valences of recycling, revision, and relocation throughout the interconnected Middle Ages, and their continued relevance for the shaping of modernity. The essays examine cases in the Arab and Muslim world, China and Mongolia, and the Prussian-Lithuanian frontier of eastern Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shack, Joseph

Weaver, Hannah

Symes, Carol

Weitere Mitwirkende

Symes, Carol

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction, by Joseph Shack and Hannah Weaver
2. Self-Revision and the Arabic Historical Tradition: Identifying Textual Reuse and Reorganization in the Works of al-Baladhuri, by Ryan J. Lynch
3. When Curtains Fall: A Shape-Shifting Silk of the Late Abbasid Period, by Meredyth Lynn Winter
4. Salvaging Meaning: The Art of Recycling in Sino-Mongol Quanzhou, ca. 1276-1408, by Jennifer Purtle
5. Recontextualizing Indigenous Knowledge on the Prussian-Lithuanian Frontier, ca. 1380-1410, by Patrick Meehan
6. Meubles: The Ever Mobile Middle Ages, by Elizabeth Emery
7. Reflection, by Daniel Lord Smail

Über Autor(innen)

Shack, Joseph
Joseph Shack is a researcher in English and Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

Symes, Carol
Carol Symes is the Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the history of documentary practices and communication media in medieval Europe.

Weaver, Hannah
Hannah Weaver is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.