Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism
emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented
through careful comparative and transdisciplinary studies, as this
volume demonstrates, offering a wide range of innovative
perspectives on often neglected literary, philosophical,
historical, or medical documents. Texts, images, ideas, knowledge,
and objects migrated throughout the world already in the pre-modern
world, even if the quantitative level compared to the modern world
might have been different. In fact, by means of translations and
trade, for instance, global connections were established and
maintained over the centuries. Archetypal motifs developed in many
literatures indicate how much pre-modern people actually shared.
But we also discover hard-core facts of global economic exchange,
import of exotic medicine, and, on another level, intensive
intellectual debates on religious issues. Literary evidence serves
best to expose the extent to which contacts with people in foreign
countries were imaginable, often desirable, and at times feared, of
course. The pre-modern world was much more on the move and reached
out to distant lands out of curiosity, economic interests, and
political and military concerns. Diplomats crisscrossed the
continents, and artists, poets, and craftsmen traveled widely. We
can identify, for instance, both the Vikings and the Arabs as
global players long before the rise of modern globalism, so this
volume promises to rewrite many of our traditional notions about
pre-modern worldviews, economic conditions, and the literary
sharing on a global level, as perhaps best expressed by the genre
of the fable.
General
Imprint: |
De Gruyter
|
Country of origin: |
Germany |
Series: |
Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Editors: |
Albrecht Classen
|
Dimensions: |
230 x 155mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
650 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-11-118907-9 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
3-11-118907-4 |
Barcode: |
9783111189079 |
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