| Recreating the Medieval Globe: Acts of Recycling, Revision, and Relocation Contributor(s): Shack, Joseph (Editor), Weaver, Hannah (Editor), Symes, Carol (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1641894253 ISBN-13: 9781641894258 Publisher: ARC Humanities Press OUR PRICE: $123.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Civilization - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Physical Information: 181 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The creative reuse of materials, texts, and ideas was a common phenomenon in the medieval world. The seven chapters offer here a synchronic and diachronic consideration of the receptions and meanings of events and artifacts, analyzing the processes that allowed medieval works to remain relevant in sociocultural contexts far removed from those in which they originated. In the process, they elucidate the global valences of recycling, revision, and relocation throughout the interconnected Middle Ages, and their continued relevance for the shaping of modernity. The essays examine cases in the Arab and Muslim world, China and Mongolia, and the Prussian-Lithuanian frontier of eastern Europe. |
