![]() Before 1500 CE in Europe, all texts were hand-copied by scribes, usually monks in monasteries (University of Minnesota Libraries, n.d.) the term "Manuscript" comes from the latin manus (hand) and scriptus (to write) (De Hamel & British Museums 1992.) For special books, such as books for the clergy, pages could be decorated with thinly pressed gold and silver, elaborate lettering and brilliant coloring using materials such as arsenic, saffron, or red lead combined with the whites of eggs. Featuring over 160 colour illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.Illuminated materials date back to as early as 500 CE. Through essays and case studies, the volume's multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Americas - an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. 'Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts' is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books - like today's museums - preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures and everyone's place in it. Epilogue: Global History and the Art Museum / James Cuno.Case Study, Peregrinations of Parchment and Pewter: Manuscripts and Mental Pilgrimage / Rheagan Eric Martin.Traveling off the Page: Bringing the Voyage to Life in Hebrew Poetry and Paintings / Elizabeth A.Narrative Shifts: The Life of the Buddha in Palm-Leaf Manuscripts / Tushara Bindu Gude.Case Study, Manuscripts, Faith, and Trade across the Medieval Sahara / Michelle H.Transplants and Transformations in a Global Middle Ages / Jill Caskey.Itineraries from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Travel, Circulation, and Exchange / Bryan C.Case Study, Visualizing Byzantine and Islamic Devotional Objects in Two Fifteenth-Century Francophone Manuscripts / Alexandra Kaczenski.Novelty and Diversity in Illustrations of Marco Polo's Description of the World / Mark Cruse.Case Study, Horses, Arrows, and Trebuchets: Picturing the Mongol Military Campaign in Eurasia / Kaiqi Hua.Color, Culture, and the Making of Difference in the Vidal Mayor / Pamela A.Case Study, Mobilizing the Collection: Teaching Beyond the (Medieval) Canon with Museum Objects / Kristen Collins and Bryan C.Imperial Brutality: Racial Difference and the Intersectionality of the Ethiopian Eunuch / Roland Betancourt.Identity: Finding One's Place in the Medieval World / Bryan C.Reproducing the Resurrection: From European Prints to Armenian Manuscripts / Sylvie L.Case Study, Missionary Effects and Messianic Aspirations at the Court of Shah ʻAbbas / Sussan Babaie.The Painter's Line on Paper and Clay: Maya Codices and Codex-Style Vessels from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries / Megan E.Case Study, Traveling Medicine: Medieval Ethiopian Amulet Scrolls and Practitioners' Handbooks / Eyob Derillo.Buddhist Illuminated Manuscripts in East Asia / J.The Intermediality of "the Book": Bound, Rolled, and Folded Textual Objects / Bryan C.Case Study, Mapping Global Middle Ages / Asa Simon Mittman. ![]()
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