The Global Middle Ages
An Introduction

Table of Contents

1. The Introductory Elements in the Global Middle Ages Series
2. All Good Things Have a Beginning: The When, How, and What of the 'Global Middle Ages'
3. 'An Idea Whose Time Has Come': Why the Global Turn in Premodern Studies Matters
4. Rethinking Time, Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, Modernity and Premodernity
5. Attending to Local, National, Regional, Global: The Politics of Intertwined, Interlocking Scales of Relation
6. What is Early Globalism? The World, the Globe, and the Planet, Part One
7. What's in a Name? The European 'Middle Ages', the 'Global Middle Ages', and Premodern Time around the Globe
8. Why Periodization Still Matters: Acknowledging Epistemic Shifts and Differences across Time
9. Globalization, Globalism, World-Systems: The Planet, the Globe, and the World, Part Two
10. Globalization: A Name for Today, but Not for All Time
11. World-Systems: The Why, the When, and the What
12. Worlds of Differences: The Cambridge Elements on the Global Middle Ages
Collaboration, Experimentation, and an Open-Ended Process.

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