Description
While globalization is a modern phenomenon, premodern people were also interconnected in early forms of globalism, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of the Middle Ages in order to foster new habits of thinking and develop a multilayered, critical sense of the past.
The essays in this volume reach across disciplinary lines to bring insights from music, theater, religion, ecology, museums, and the history of disease into the literature classroom. The contributors provide guidance on texts such as the Thousand and One Nights, Sunjata, Benjamin of Tudela's Book of Travels, and the Malay Annals and on topics such as hotels, maps, and camels. They propose syllabus recommendations, present numerous digital resources, and offer engaging class activities and discussion questions. Ultimately, they provide tools that will help students evaluate popular representations of the Middle Ages and engage with the dynamics of past, present, and future world relationships.
Author: Geraldine Heng
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Published: 10/28/2022
Pages: 472
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.03w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9781603295178
ISBN10: 1603295178
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Medieval
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Study & Teaching