| Contents |
The introductory elements of the Global Middle Ages series -- All good things have a beginning : the when, how, and what of the "Global Middle Ages" -- "An idea whose time has come" : why the global turn in premodern studies matters -- Rethinking time, scientific and industrial revolutions, modernity, and premodernity -- Attending to local, national, regional, global : the politics of intertwined, interlocking scales of relation -- What is early globalism? The world, the globe, and the planet, part one -- What's in a name? The European "Middle Ages," the "Global Middle Ages," and premodern time around the globe -- Why periodization still matters : acknowledging epistemic shifts and differences across time -- Globalization, globalism, world systems : the planet, the globe, and the world, part two -- Globalization : a name for today, but not for all time -- World-systems : the why, the when, and the what -- Worlds of differences : the Cambridge Elements in the Global Middle Ages : collaboration, experimentation, and an open-ended process. |
