3/25/2023 0 Comments Medieval manuscripts silkCreated by the Institute for Studies of Illuminated Manuscripts in Denmark. Want to know more about the most popular type of book - the "bestseller" of the Middle Ages? This site gives the nuts and bolts of the contents of these books and how they were used. ![]() British Library Online Gallery: European ManuscriptsĪnother website from the British Library highlighting their treasures, including the Lindisfarne Gospels.Franklin’s book, on the other hand, brings the local perspective to a global context, contributing meaningfully to the emerging field of Global Middle Ages. Works concentrating on the non-European world are often concerned with regional outlooks, seldom addressing larger issues of world history. “This is a thought-provoking work of modern scholarship, a perfect marriage of historical theory and archaeological investigation. ![]() A critical tour de force."-Francesca Bray, author of Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered "Culminating in a tasty stew shared in a medieval Armenian caravanserai, Kate Franklin’s feminist analysis of different scales of the material culture of hospitality and its powers turns the heroic travel narratives of what we call the Silk Road inside out, recapturing the overlapping space-times of moving and staying that co-created the everyday cosmopolitanisms of the medieval world. ![]() She argues that, like other places across Afro-Eurasia, this valley and its people reveal their part in the wider ‘scape’ of a cosmopolitan medieval world, the Silk Roads."-Susan Whitfield, author of Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road The author traces the threads which are woven throughout the land and sensory ‘scapes' of a valley in Armenia: its archaeology, architecture and people’s lives, past and present. With its innovative focus on the far-reaching implications of local practices, Everyday Cosmopolitanisms brings the study of medieval Eurasia into relation with contemporary investigations of cosmopolitanism and globalization, challenging persistent divisions between modern and medieval, global and quotidian. Franklin guides the reader through increasingly intimate scales of global exchange to highlight the cosmopolitan dimensions of daily life, as she vividly reconstructs how people living in and passing through the medieval Caucasus understood the world and their place within it. She argues that Armenia-and the Silk Road itself-consisted of the overlapping worlds created by a diverse assortment of people: not only long-distance travelers but also the local rulers and subjects who lived in Armenia’s mountain valleys and along its highways. In this book, Kate Franklin takes the highlands of medieval Armenia as a compelling case study for examining how early globalization and everyday life intertwined along the Silk Road. Missing are the lives of the ordinary people who inhabited the route and contributed as much to its development as their itinerant counterparts. Learn more at Widely studied and hotly debated, the Silk Road is often viewed as a precursor to contemporary globalization, the merchants who traversed it as early agents of cultural exchange. A free open access ebook is available upon publication.
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