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A Franciscan Tombstone In Fourteenth-Century China - A Global History

by Nancy (Educator Emeritus, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art) Wu

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 This Element examines the tombstone for Andrew of Perugia (d. 1332?), the sole surviving object from the 14C Franciscan mission in China. Its discovery, and that of other Christian monuments over the centuries, demonstrate how various Christian churches interacted with their host society from the eighth through the fourteenth centuries.
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A Franciscan Tombstone In Fourteenth-Century China - A Global History

by Nancy (Educator Emeritus, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art) Wu

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 This Element examines the tombstone for Andrew of Perugia (d. 1332?), the sole surviving object from the 14C Franciscan mission in China. Its discovery, and that of other Christian monuments over the centuries, demonstrate how various Christian churches interacted with their host society from the eighth through the fourteenth centuries.
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Early Globalism And Chinese Literature

by Victor H. (University Of Pennsylvania) Mair e Yuanfei (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) Wang

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 Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes two primary forms. The authors contend that early global literary diffusion left a lasting imprint on Chinese language, literature, and culture. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Early Globalism And Chinese Literature

by Victor H. (University Of Pennsylvania) Mair e Yuanfei (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) Wang

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 Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes two primary forms. The authors contend that early global literary diffusion left a lasting imprint on Chinese language, literature, and culture. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Death Rituals - The Rus And 'Vikings' In Arabic And Persian

by Tonicha M. (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden) Upham

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 This Element reevaluates geographical writings on Rus death and sacrificial rituals, redirecting focus towards the textual transmission of ideas in both Arabic and Persian to offer a critical guide to geographical knowledge dissemination on Rus funerary practices.
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Death Rituals - The Rus And 'Vikings' In Arabic And Persian

by Tonicha M. (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden) Upham

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 This Element reevaluates geographical writings on Rus death and sacrificial rituals, redirecting focus towards the textual transmission of ideas in both Arabic and Persian to offer a critical guide to geographical knowledge dissemination on Rus funerary practices.
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Teaching Early Global Literatures And Cultures

by Geraldine (University Of Texas At Austin) Heng

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 Teaching Early Global Literatures and Cultures is a guide to the terra incognita of the global literature classroom. It should be possible for faculty and graduate instructors to take this Element and begin teaching its sample syllabus right away.
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Teaching Early Global Literatures And Cultures

by Geraldine (University Of Texas At Austin) Heng

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 Teaching Early Global Literatures and Cultures is a guide to the terra incognita of the global literature classroom. It should be possible for faculty and graduate instructors to take this Element and begin teaching its sample syllabus right away.
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Islamicate Environments - Water, Land, Plants, And Society

by D. Fairchild (University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign) Ruggles

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 Islam burst forth from Arabia in the seventh century and spread with astonishing speed and force into the Middle East, Asia and northern Africa and the Mediterranean. This Element focuses on the environmental conditions from which early Islamic societies sprang.
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Islamicate Environments - Water, Land, Plants, And Society

by D. Fairchild (University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign) Ruggles

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 Islam burst forth from Arabia in the seventh century and spread with astonishing speed and force into the Middle East, Asia and northern Africa and the Mediterranean. This Element focuses on the environmental conditions from which early Islamic societies sprang.
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Elephants And Ivory In China And Spain

by John (Texas Tech University) Beusterien e Stephen (University Of California, Berkeley) West

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 The Element provides a global history of ivory and elephants, acknowledging the individuality and dignity of the elephants that provided that ivory.
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Elephants And Ivory In China And Spain

by John (Texas Tech University) Beusterien e Stephen (University Of California, Berkeley) West

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 The Element provides a global history of ivory and elephants, acknowledging the individuality and dignity of the elephants that provided that ivory.
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The Global Legend Of Prester John

by Christopher E. (Western New Mexico University) Taylor

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 The Global Legend of Prester John delves into the enduring fascination with Prester John, an unreachable, collectively-imagined Christian priest-king who figured prominently in Europe's entrance into an interconnected global world.
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'Ethiopia' And The World, 330-1500 Ce

by Verena Krebs e Yonatan Binyam

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 This Cambridge Element offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the histories of the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands from late antiquity to the late medieval period, updating traditional Western academic perspectives.
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Global Ships - Seafaring, Shipwrecks, And Boatbuilding In The Global Middle Ages

by Amanda (Ohio State University-Marion) Respess

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 Global Ships examines the major seafaring traditions and technologies that engendered long-distance connections across the world's oceans during the Global Middle Ages. Global Ships highlights essential historical context, technological case studies, and logics of seafaring around the world before the modern age.
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Global Ships - Seafaring, Shipwrecks, And Boatbuilding In The Global Middle Ages

by Amanda (Ohio State University-Marion) Respess

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 Global Ships examines the major seafaring traditions and technologies that engendered long-distance connections across the world's oceans during the Global Middle Ages. Global Ships highlights essential historical context, technological case studies, and logics of seafaring around the world before the modern age.
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Â€˜Ethiopiaâ€™ And The World, 330â€“1500 Ce

by Verena (Ruhr-Universitat, Bochum, Germany) Krebs e Yonatan (Institute For Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey) Binyam

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 This Cambridge Element offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the histories of the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands from late antiquity to the late medieval period, updating traditional Western academic perspectives.
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Â€˜Ethiopiaâ€™ And The World, 330â€“1500 Ce

by Verena (Ruhr-Universitat, Bochum, Germany) Krebs e Yonatan (Institute For Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey) Binyam

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 This Cambridge Element offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the histories of the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands from late antiquity to the late medieval period, updating traditional Western academic perspectives.
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Swahili Worlds In Globalism

by Chapurukha M. Kusimba

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 Discusses a medieval African urban society as a product of interactions among African communities who inhabited the region between 100 BCE and 500 CE. Positioned as the gateway into and out of eastern Africa, the Swahili coast became a site through which people, inventions, and innovations bi-directionally migrated, were adopted, and evolved.
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The Chertsey Tiles, The Crusades, And Global Textile Motifs

by Amanda (College Of The Holy Cross) Luyster

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 While visual cultures mingled comfortably along the silk roads and on the shores of the Mediterranean, medieval England has sometimes been viewed as isolated. In this Element the author introduces new evidence to show that this understanding of medieval England's visual relationship to the rest of the world demands revision.
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Swahili Worlds In Globalism

by Chapurukha M. (University Of South Florida) Kusimba

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 Discusses a medieval African urban society as a product of interactions among African communities who inhabited the region between 100 BCE and 500 CE. Positioned as the gateway into and out of eastern Africa, the Swahili coast became a site through which people, inventions, and innovations bi-directionally migrated, were adopted, and evolved.
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Swahili Worlds In Globalism

by Chapurukha M. (University Of South Florida) Kusimba

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 Discusses a medieval African urban society as a product of interactions among African communities who inhabited the region between 100 BCE and 500 CE. Positioned as the gateway into and out of eastern Africa, the Swahili coast became a site through which people, inventions, and innovations bi-directionally migrated, were adopted, and evolved.
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Late Tang China And The World, 750-907 Ce

by Shao-Yun Yang

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 This Element reassesses the standard cosmopolitanism-to-xenophobia narrative of late Tang China, presenting a more empirically-grounded and nuanced interpretation of the Tang empire's foreign relations after 755.
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Medieval Textiles Across Eurasia, C. 300-1400

by Eiren L. Shea, Elizabeth Dospel Williams e Patricia Blessing

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