Recreating the Medieval Globe
Acts of Recycling, Revision, and Relocation
Published on 30. November 2020
Book
Hardback
181 pages
978-1-64189-425-8 (ISBN)
Description
Examines the creative reuse of materials, texts, and ideas throughout the interconnected, global Middle Ages, and their continued relevance for the shaping of modernity.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Leeds
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
34 s/w Abbildungen, 1 s/w Zeichnung
1 Line drawings, black and white; 34 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-64189-425-8 (9781641894258)
DOI
10.17302/TMG.6-2
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Joseph Shack ============
Joseph Shack is a researcher in English and Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
Hannah Weaver =============Hannah Weaver is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Carol Symes =========== 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.Content
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
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