Teaching The Global Middle Ages

Author : Geraldine Heng
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603295192

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Teaching the Global Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng Pdf

While globalization is a modern phenomenon, premodern people were also interconnected in early forms of globalism, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of the Middle Ages in order to foster new habits of thinking and develop a multilayered, critical sense of the past. The essays in this volume reach across disciplinary lines to bring insights from music, theater, religion, ecology, museums, and the history of disease into the literature classroom. The contributors provide guidance on texts such as the Thousand and One Nights, Sunjata, Benjamin of Tudela's Book of Travels, and the Malay Annals and on topics such as hotels, maps, and camels. They propose syllabus recommendations, present numerous digital resources, and offer engaging class activities and discussion questions. Ultimately, they provide tools that will help students evaluate popular representations of the Middle Ages and engage with the dynamics of past, present, and future world relationships.

Author : Geraldine Heng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009204781

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The Global Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng Pdf

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.

Author : Bryan C. Keene
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606065983

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Toward a Global Middle Ages by Bryan C. Keene Pdf

This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. Featuring more than 160 color illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.

Author : Robert Squillace,Angela Jane Weisl
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843847038

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Medievalisms in a Global Age by Robert Squillace,Angela Jane Weisl Pdf

Discusses contemporary medievalism in studies ranging from Brazil to West Africa, from Manila to New York. Across the world, revivals of medieval practices, images, and tales flourish as never before. The essays collected here, informed by approaches from Global Studies and the critical discourse on the concept of a "Global Middle Ages", explore the many facets of contemporary medievalism: post-colonial responses to the enforced dissemination of Western medievalisms, attempts to retrieve pre-modern cultural traditions that were interrupted by colonialism, the tentative forging of a global "medieval" imaginary from the world's repository of magical tales and figures, and the deployment across borders of medieval imagery for political purposes. The volume is divided into two sections, dealing with "Local Spaces" and "Global Geographies". The contributions in the first consider a variety of medievalisms tied to particular places across a broad geography, but as part of a larger transnational medievalist dynamic. Those in the second focus on explicitly globalist medievalist phenomena whether concerning the projection of a particular medievalist trope across borders or the integration of "medieval" pasts from different parts of the globe in a contemporary incarnation of medievalism. A wide range of topics are addressed, from Japanese manga and Arthurian tales to The O-Trilogy of Maurice Gee, Camus, and Dungeons and Dragons.

Author : Kimberly Klimek,Pamela L. Troyer,Sarah Davis-Secord,Bryan C. Keene
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351593083

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Global Medieval Contexts 500 – 1500 by Kimberly Klimek,Pamela L. Troyer,Sarah Davis-Secord,Bryan C. Keene Pdf

Global Medieval Contexts 500–1500: Connections and Comparisons provides a unique wide-lens introduction to world history during this period. Designed for students new to the subject, this textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. The expert author team aims to advance a global view of the period and introduce the reader to histories and narratives beyond an exclusively European context. Key Features: Divided into chronological sections, chapters are organized by four key themes: Religion, Economics, Politics, and Society. This framework enables students to connect wider ideas and debates across 500 to 1500. Individual chapters address current theoretical discussions, including issues around gender, migration, and sustainable environments. The authors’ combined teaching experience and subject specialties ensure an engaging and accessible overview for students of history, literature, and those undertaking general studies courses. Theory boxes and end-of-chapter questions provide a basis for group discussion and research. Full-color maps and images illustrate chapter content and support understanding. As a result, this text is essential reading for all those interested in learning more about the histories and cultures of the period, as well as their relevance to our own contemporary experiences and perspectives. This textbook is supported by a companion website providing core resources for students and lecturers.

Author : Kristen Collins,Bryan C. Keene
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606067857

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Balthazar by Kristen Collins,Bryan C. Keene Pdf

This abundantly illustrated book examines the figure of Balthazar, one of the biblical magi, and explains how and why he came to be depicted as a Black African king. According to the Gospel of Matthew, magi from the East, following a star, traveled to Jerusalem bearing precious gifts for the infant Jesus. The magi were revered as wise men and later as kings. Over time, one of the three came to be known as Balthazar and to be depicted as a Black man. Balthazar was familiar to medieval Europeans, appearing in paintings, manuscript illuminations, mosaics, carved ivories, and jewelry. But the origin story of this fascinating character uncovers intricate ties between Europe and Africa, including trade and diplomacy as well as colonization and enslavement. In this book, experts in the fields of Ethiopian, West African, Nubian, and Western European art explore the representation of Balthazar as a Black African king. They examine exceptional art that portrays the European fantasy of the Black magus while offering clues about the very real Africans who may have inspired these images. Along the way, the authors chronicle the Black presence in premodern Europe, where free and enslaved Black people moved through public spaces and courtly circles. The volume’s lavish illustrations include selected works by contemporary artists who creatively challenge traditional depictions of Black history.

Author : Erik Hermans
Publisher : ARC Humanities Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1942401752

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A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages by Erik Hermans Pdf

This companion analyzes the different ways in which societies from Oceania to Europe and beyond were connected in the period 600-900 CE.

Author : Sally N. Vaughn,Jay Rubenstein
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015069353194

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Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000-1200 by Sally N. Vaughn,Jay Rubenstein Pdf

The essays in this collection focus not on texts but on people, specifically on teachers and their students, beginning with the late Carolingian era and continuing through the creation of monastic and secular schools in the centuries before the first universities. Central to the articles in this volume are the schools and communities of Northern France and England, including Reims, Bec, Soissons, and Canterbury, whose patterns of thought and learning gave shape to intellectual endeavours throughout medieval Europe. In addition to some of the most prominent personalities of the day (among them Gerbert of Reims, Lanfranc and Anselm of Bec, Ivo of Chatres, and John of Salisbury), the contributors examine those teachers and students who worked in the shadows: figures like the biblical exegete Richard of Preaux and the musical innovator Theinred of Dover. The focus throughout the volume is on personalities and personal relationships, thus recreating the human connections that lay behind medieval humanism and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance. Taken together, the essays here create a coherent and compelling picture of the tumultuous time before the universities came to organize and take control of teaching and learning-a seminal period when teaching methods and curricula grew out of the particular experience of specific teachers and their interactions with their students.

Author : Erin K. Wagner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501512186

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The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature by Erin K. Wagner Pdf

Vernacular writers of late medieval England were engaged in global conversations about orthodoxy and heresy. Entering these conversations with a developing vernacular required lexical innovation. The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature examines the way in which these writers complemented seemingly straightforward terms, like heretic, with a range of synonyms that complicated the definitions of both those words and orthodoxy itself. This text proposes four specific terms that become collated with heretic in the parlance of medieval English writers of the 14th and 15th centuries: jangler, Jew, Saracen, and witch. These four labels are especially important insofar as they represent the way in which medieval Christianity appropriated and subverted marginalized or vulnerable identities to promote a false image of unassailable authority.

Author : Helen Young,Kavita Mudan Finn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009122412

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Global Medievalism by Helen Young,Kavita Mudan Finn Pdf

The typical vision of the Middle Ages western popular culture represents to its global audience is deeply Eurocentric. The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones imagined entire medievalist worlds, but we see only a fraction of them through the stories and travels of the characters. Organised around the theme of mobility, this Element seeks to deconstruct the Eurocentric orientations of western popular medievalisms which typically position Europe as either the whole world or the centre of it, by making them visible and offering alternative perspectives. How does popular culture represent medievalist worlds as global-connected by the movement of people and objects? How do imagined mobilities allow us to create counterstories that resist Eurocentric norms? This study represents the start of what will hopefully be a fruitful and inclusive conversation of what the Middle Ages did, and should, look like.

Author : Amanda Luyster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009353151

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The Chertsey Tiles, the Crusades, and Global Textile Motifs by Amanda Luyster Pdf

While visual cultures mingled comfortably along the silk roads and on the shores of the Mediterranean, medieval England has sometimes been viewed – by both medieval and more recent writers – as isolated. In this Element the author introduces new evidence to show that this understanding of medieval England's visual relationship to the rest of the world demands revision. An international team led by the author has completed a digital reconstruction of the so-called Chertsey combat tiles (sophisticated pictorial floor tiles made c. 1250, England), including both images and lost Latin texts. Grounded in the discoveries made while completing this reconstruction, the author proposes new conclusions regarding the historical circumstances within which the Chertsey tiles were commissioned and their significant connections with global textile traditions.

Author : Robert V. Graybill,John E. Hallwas,Judy Hample
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 0942912012

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Teaching the Middle Ages II by Robert V. Graybill,John E. Hallwas,Judy Hample Pdf

Author : Lynn T. Ramey
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813055046

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Black Legacies by Lynn T. Ramey Pdf

Black Legacies looks at color-based prejudice in medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe’s Middle Ages were foundational in the development of the western concept of race. Using historical, literary, and artistic sources, Lynn Ramey shows that twelfth- and thirteenth-century discourse was preoccupied with skin color and the coding of black as “evil” and white as “good.” Ramey demonstrates that fears of miscegenation show up in all medieval European societies. She pinpoints these same ideas in the rhetoric of later centuries. Mapmakers and travel writers of the colonial era used medieval lore of “monstrous peoples” to question the humanity of indigenous New World populations, and medieval arguments about humanness were employed to justify the slave trade. Ramey even analyzes how race is explored in films set in medieval Europe, revealing an enduring fascination with the Middle Ages as a touchstone for processing and coping with racial conflict in the West today.

Author : Geraldine Heng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108422789

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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng Pdf

This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.

Author : Andrew Albin,Mary C. Erler,Thomas O'Donnell,Nicholas L. Paul,Nina Rowe
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823285594

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Whose Middle Ages? by Andrew Albin,Mary C. Erler,Thomas O'Donnell,Nicholas L. Paul,Nina Rowe Pdf

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and in subtler ways that inform how we think about our histories, our countries, and ourselves. Each author looks to a history that has refused to remain past and uses the tools of the academy to read and re-read familiar stories, objects, symbols, and myths. Whose Middle Ages? gives nonspecialists access to the richness of our historical knowledge while debunking damaging misconceptions about the medieval past. Myths about the medieval period are especially beloved among the globally resurgent far right, from crusading emblems on the shields borne by alt-right demonstrators to the on-screen image of a purely white European populace defended from actors of color by Internet trolls. This collection attacks these myths directly by insisting that readers encounter the relics of the Middle Ages on their own terms. Each essay uses its author’s academic research as a point of entry and takes care to explain how the author knows what she or he knows and what kinds of tools, bodies of evidence, and theoretical lenses allow scholars to write with certainty about elements of the past to a level of detail that might seem unattainable. By demystifying the methods of scholarly inquiry, Whose Middle Ages? serves as an antidote not only to the far right’s errors of fact and interpretation but also to its assault on scholarship and expertise as valid means for the acquisition of knowledge.