Toward a Global Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward a Global Middle Ages write by Bryan C. Keene. This book was released on 2019-09-03. Toward a Global Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Hastening Toward Prague
Hastening Toward Prague - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hastening Toward Prague write by Lisa Wolverton. This book was released on 2012-10-09. Hastening Toward Prague available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first comprehensive study in English of Czech society and politics in the High Middle Ages. It paints a vivid portrait of a flourishing Christian community in the decades between 1050 and 1200. Bohemia's social and political landscape remained remarkably cohesive, centered on a throne in Prague, the Premyslid duke who occupied it, a society of property-owning freemen, and the ascendant Catholic church. In decades fraught with political violence, these provided a focal point for Czech identity and political order. In this, the Czechs' heavenly patron, Saint Vaclav, and the German emperor beyond their borders too had a role to play. An impressive, systematic dissection of a medieval polity, Hastening Toward Prague is based on a close rereading of written and material artifacts from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Arguing against a view that puts state or nation formation at heart, Wolverton examines interactions among dukes, emperors, freemen, and the church on their own terms, asking what powers the dukes of Bohemia possessed and how they were exercised within a broader political community. Evaluating not only the foundations and practice of ducal lordship but also the form and progress of resistance to it, she argues in particular that violence was not a sign of political instability but should be interpreted as reflecting a dynamic economy of checks and balances in a fluid, mature political system. This also reveals the values and strategies that sustained the Czech Lands as a community. The study honors the complexity and dynamism of the medieval exercise of power.
Workers of the World
Workers of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Workers of the World write by Marcel van der Linden. This book was released on 2008-09-30. Workers of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The studies offered in this volume integrate the history of wage labor, of slavery, and of indentured labor. They contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism.
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages write by Geraldine Heng. This book was released on 2018-03-08. The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.
Medieval Cities
Medieval Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Cities write by Henri Pirenne. This book was released on 1925. Medieval Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This little volume contains the substance of lectures ... delivered from October to December 1922 in several American universities."--Pref. Bibliography: p. [245]-249.
