![]() Toward a Global Middle Ages does an admirable job at showing some of the ways the medieval world was much bigger than we tend to think.” “A book with real intellectual (and literal) heft. “A nuanced and balanced study of the interconnectedness of reading, writing and illustrating in the world before printing.” This is a challenging first attempt at an overview and a great achievement. Seldom has this reviewer learned so much, and with such pleasure. All essays are annotated, and the cumulative bibliography, which includes studies from many disciplines, is a goldmine. “This exciting and handsomely produced volume offers 22 studies, by an international team of authors, addressing what a “global Middle Ages” might mean for the study of illustrated manuscripts. Geraldine Heng, founder and director of the Global Middle Ages Project and Perceval Professor at the University of Texas at Austin This book should be on everyone’s shelves." Those of us who research, teach, and study a Global Middle Ages (gratifyingly, this volume’s editor, unlike many scholars, is alive to the problematic character of this now-popular term for naming the past) are richly rewarded by the perspicacity and diversity exhibited in this sumptuous, magnificent volume. Keene curates a selection of essays and images that attest how book arts, in conceptualizing and depicting the lived and imagined worlds of their time, played a complex role in forging early globalisms. That variegated world, stretching from the Americas to Afro-Eurasia to Austronesia, is offered to the reader through extraordinary images and thoughtful essays that delight, instruct, and surprise us. "Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts showcases a kaleidoscopic and multifaceted premodern world though decorated books of many kinds. ![]() Keene presents an open-ended book that speaks to the vibrancy, energy, and aspirations of medieval studies today.” “Offers a timely response to a swiftly changing field. Embraces a diversity of individuals, objects, stories, cultures, and traditions, and engages the reader in an inspiring conversation about illustrated books and globality.” He specializes in codex cultures of a global Middle Ages and fantasy medievalisms. Keene (he/él/they/elle) is assistant professor of art history at Riverside City College and a former associate curator of manuscripts at the J. ![]() ![]() 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.įeaturing over 150 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.īryan C. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. 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. South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands (USD $) ![]()
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