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4 results in The Medieval Globe

Medieval Strategies of Entreaty from North Africa to Eurasia
  • Edited by Petra M. Sijpesteijn
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    18 December 2024
    Print publication:
    30 April 2024
  • This volume in The Medieval Globe Books series surveys the distinctive but also shared rhetorical practices that characterize written requests for intercession, support, and patronage across many languages, cultures, and forms of interaction. Examples range from mundane requests to diplomatic negotiations, preserved in a variety of material media: potsherds, papyrus, paper, administrative handbooks, chronicles, and letter collections. Each contribution focuses on one textual sample or corpus of letters, providing new English translations as well as editions of the original texts in cases where no previous edition is available. Together, they represent the textual conventions and innovations of learned and vernacular epistolary traditions from many regions of North Africa and Eurasia, from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries CE.

Practices of Commentary
  • Medieval Traditions and Transmissions
  • Edited by Amanda Goodman, Suzanne Conklin Akbari
  • General editor Carol Symes
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    17 February 2024
    Print publication:
    31 August 2023
  • The comparative or connected study of localized intellectual traditions poses special challenges to the global turn in medieval studies. How can we enable conversations across language groups and intricate cultural formations, as well as disciplines? Practices of commentary offer a compelling opportunity: their visual layouts reveal assumptions about the relative status of text and gloss, while interpretive interlinear or marginal prompts capture the dynamic relationships among generations of teachers, students, and readers. The material traces of manuscript usage - from hastily scrawled marginal notes to vivid rubrication - illuminate the shared didactic and communicative practices developed within scholarly communities. By bringing together researchers working on specific cultures and discourses across Eurasia, this volume moves toward a global account of premodern commentary traditions.

New Evidence for the Dating and Impact of the Black Death in Asia
  • Robert Hymes, Monica H. Green
  • Edited by Carol Symes
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    06 April 2023
    Print publication:
    30 November 2022
  • Since 2014, when The Medieval Globe first presented the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on the Black Death as a global pandemic, the pace and intensity of research has intensified. This follow-up volume features two extended essays laying out evidence that the Second Plague Pandemic was already ravaging China by the second quarter of the thirteenth-century - over a century before it made its appearance in the greater Mediterranean region.

The Global North
  • Spaces, Connections, and Networks before 1600
  • Edited by Carol Symes
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    20 January 2022
    Print publication:
    31 December 2021
  • When Janet Abu-Lughod sketched the contours of a medieval 'world system' in 1989, she located most communication networks in the southern hemisphere. In recent decades, however, new trends in research and new forms of evidence have complicated, enriched, and expanded this picture, geographically and chronologically. We now know that vast portions of the world were interconnected throughout the Middle Ages and, moreover, that the entire circumpolar North was a contact zone in its own right. In this volume, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the boreal globe from the late Iron Age to the seventeenth century, offering fresh perspectives that cross the frontiers of national historiographies and presenting new research on migration, trade, mapping, cultural exchange, and the interactions of humans with their environment.