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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795643703321

Titolo

Recreating the medieval globe : acts of recycling, revision, and relocation / / edited by Joseph Shack and Hannah Weaver [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2020

ISBN

1-64189-963-8

1-64189-425-3

Edizione

[New edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

The medieval globe ; ; volume 6

Disciplina

809.02

Soggetti

Literature, Medieval - History and criticism

Civilization, Medieval

Intercultural communication - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Jun 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to Recreating the Medieval Globe: Acts of Recycling, Revision, and Relocation / Joseph Stack and Hannah Weaver -- Self-Revision and the Arabic Historical Tradition: Identifying Textual Reuse and Reorganization in the Works of Al-Baladhuri / Ryan J. Lynch -- When Curtains Fall: A Shape-Shifting Silk of the Late Abbasid Period / Meredyth Lynn Winter -- Salvaging Meaning: The Art of Recycling in Sino-Mongol Quanzhou, CA. 1276-1408 / Jennifer Purtle -- Recontextualizing Indigenous Knowledge on the Prussian- Lithuanian Frontier, ca. 1380- 1410 / Patrick Meehan -- Meubles: The Ever Mobile Middle Ages / Elizabeth Emery -- Reflection / Daniel Lord Smail.

Sommario/riassunto

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.