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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of Contents1. 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.
