Introduction: Towards a Global Middle Ages
Introduction: Towards a Global Middle Ages
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简介:迈向全球中世纪
DOI:
10.1093/pastj/gty030
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发表时间:
2018
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影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
Holmes C
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作者:
Holmes C
In modern popular culture the term ‘global’is synonymous with global connectedness, even ‘globalization’. The Netflix seriesSense8offers an example of this understanding. The story is a fantasy of total global connectivity in the present day, and follows eight people who are scattered around the world, but linked telepathically. The first series was filmed entirely on location in Berlin, Chicago, London, Mexico City, Mumbai, Nairobi, Reykjavik, San Francisco and Seoul. The opening credits contained 108 shots showing the extraordinary cultural diversity of the world in which we live now. 1 But as varied, interesting and downright awesome as that sequence is, diversity and connectivity are not modern phenomena alone; nor are many other characteristics widely associated with the global, including empires, long-distance commercial activity, diasporas, migrations and religious missions. The wider temporal relevance of such global topics makes it strange that the study of global history has rarely included the millennium before 1500 despite a wealth of available evidence. There are several reasons for this marginalization. One is the still ubiquitous idea that truly global history only began with European long-distance maritime expeditions in the early modern centuries. Another is the usually unstated but persistently powerful assumption about the essential backwardness of the Middle Ages. Also inhibiting are approaches which regard the medieval world as intrinsically alternative to the modern; or post-colonialist anxieties about linking such an apparently Eurocentric term as ‘Middle Ages’ to anything called ‘global’. 2 Our response is to eschew doubt and get on with the task of examining the Global Middle Ages. We argue that however great the methodological, terminological and political difficulties associated with an approach termed the ‘Global Middle Ages’, the plentiful evidence for behaviour and interaction on a global scale in the millennium before 1500 deserves sustained and precise1< https://www. youtube. com/watch? v¼GQ-uGCsgxVs>(viewed 15 May 2018). The locations are identified here: http://tvtrippin. com/travel/where-in-the-world-pinningdown-sense8-openers-108-scenes/(accessed 1 June 2018). 2 Contested interpretations of the European Middle Ages as either the seedbed of western modernity or as modernity’s essential ‘other’have a long history, particularly among medievalists in North America: Paul Freedman and Gabrielle Spiegel,‘Medievalisms Old and New: The Rediscovery of Alterity in North American Medieval Studies’, American Historical Review, ciii, 3 (1998). See 16–19 below for more on post-colonialist anxieties.
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