Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminate - Getty Museum Store

Edited by Bryan C. Keene 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 over 150

Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminate - Getty Museum Store

Wooden Writing Tablets, Coptic

Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminate - Getty Museum Store

Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering by Keene, Bryan C.

Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering by Keene, Bryan C.

Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminate - Getty Museum Store

Alumni Fields of Vision

Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering by Keene, Bryan C.

Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering by Keene, Bryan C.

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Christine de Pizan and a City of Ladies