Recreating the Medieval Globe
Title
Recreating the Medieval Globe
Subtitle
Acts of Recycling, Revision, and Relocation
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ISBN
9781641894258
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Hardback
Number of pages
181
Language
English
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15.6 x 23.4 cm
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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

Joseph Shack, Hannah Weaver (eds)

Recreating the Medieval Globe

Acts of Recycling, Revision, and Relocation

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.
Editors

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.