Contributions to a global understanding of the medieval period need not encompass the globe in any territorial sense. The Medieval Globe advances a new theory and praxis of medieval studies by bringing into view phenomena that have been rendered practically or conceptually invisible by anachronistic boundaries, categories, and expectations: these include polities, networks, affinity groups, artistic influences, identities, bodies of knowledge, faiths, and forms of association.
Contents
Special Issue: Reassessing the “Global Turn” in Medieval Art
«Editor’s Introduction» – Christina Normore
«A Camel’s Pace: A Cautionary Global» – Bonnie Cheng
«The Fatimid Holy City: Rebuilding Jerusalem in the Eleventh Century» – Jennifer Pruitt
«Worldliness in Byzantium and Beyond: Reassessing the Visual Networks of Barlaam and Ioasaph» – Cecily J. Hilsdale
«Exchange of Sacrifices: West Africa in the Medieval World of Goods» – Sarah Guérin
«The Beryozovo Cup: A Byzantine Object at the Crossroads of the Twelfth-Century Medieval World» – Alicia Walker
«Spiritualized Warfare and Christian-Muslim Encounters in a Medieval Dagger» – Heather Badamo
«Global Medieval at the “End of the Silk Road,” circa 756 CE: The Shōsō-in Collection in Japan» – Jun Hu
«Response Medievalists and Early Modernists: A World Divided?» – Lia Markey and Jessica Keating
