The Global Middle Ages
An Introduction

This Element explains the globalisms of a thousand years, and introduces the Cambridge Elements in the Global Middle Ages.

Geraldine Heng (Author)

9781009161169, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 December 2021

75 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 0.4 cm, 0.12 kg

The Global Middle Ages: An Introduction discusses how, when, and why a 'global Middle Ages' was conceptualized; explains and considers the terms that are deployed in studying, teaching, and researching a Global Middle Ages; and critically reflects on the issues that arise in the establishment of this relatively new field of academic endeavor. An Introduction surveys the considerable gains to be had in developing a critical early global studies, and introduces the collaborative work of the Cambridge Elements series in the Global Middle Ages.

1. The Introductory Elements in the Global Middle Ages Series
2. All Good Things Have a Beginning: The When, How, and What of the 'Global Middle Ages'
3. 'An Idea Whose Time Has Come': Why the Global Turn in Premodern Studies Matters
4. Rethinking Time, Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, Modernity and Premodernity
5. Attending to Local, National, Regional, Global: The Politics of Intertwined, Interlocking Scales of Relation
6. What is Early Globalism? The World, the Globe, and the Planet, Part One
7. What's in a Name? The European 'Middle Ages', the 'Global Middle Ages', and Premodern Time around the Globe
8. Why Periodization Still Matters: Acknowledging Epistemic Shifts and Differences across Time
9. Globalization, Globalism, World-Systems: The Planet, the Globe, and the World, Part Two
10. Globalization: A Name for Today, but Not for All Time
11. World-Systems: The Why, the When, and the What
12. Worlds of Differences: The Cambridge Elements on the Global Middle Ages
Collaboration, Experimentation, and an Open-Ended Process.

Subject Areas: Medieval history [HBLC1], Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC], European history [HBJD], General & world history [HBG]