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Recreating the medieval globe : acts of recycling, revision, and relocation /

The creative reuse of materials, texts, and ideas was a common phenomenon in the medieval world. The seven chapters offer here a synchronic and diachronic consideration of the receptions and meanings of events and artifacts, analyzing the processes that allowed medieval works to remain relevant in s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Shack, Joseph (Editor ), Weaver, Hannah (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2020.
Edición:New edition.
Colección:The Medieval Globe Bks.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series information
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • Introduction to Recreating the Medieval Globe: Acts of Recycling, Revision, and Relocation
  • Note on the Transliteration of Arabic
  • Bibliography
  • Self-Revision and the Arabic Historical Tradition: Identifying Textual Reuse and Reorganization in the Works of Al-Baladhuri
  • Notes on the Arabic Historical Tradition and Its Source Materials
  • Author and Compiler-Compiler as Author
  • Detecting Textual Reuse via Computer-Mediated Analysis
  • Recycled Material from The Book of the Conquest of Lands in The Lineage of Nobles
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • When Curtains Fall: A Shape-Shifting Silk of the Late Abbasid Period
  • Reconstructing the Silk Fragments
  • The "Draped Universe" of Buyid Administration
  • The Enduring Power of the Sitr in the Late Abbasid Era
  • From Buyid Curtain to Seljuk Robe
  • Reflecting on Alteration and Reuse in the Late Abbasid World
  • Bibliography
  • Salvaging Meaning: The Art of Recycling in Sino-Mongol Quanzhou, CA. 1276-1408
  • Relocating Quanzhou: The Site, Its Inhabitants, and Their Religious Institutions
  • Reusable Imagery: Picturing Natural and Supernatural Worlds in Stone
  • Repurposed Iconography: Communicating Beliefs between Religions
  • Reproductive Modules: Re-purposing and Replicating Salvaged Stone
  • Re-installable Components: Architectural Detritus as Structural Element
  • Saving Grace: Fabricating Tolerance from the Modularity of Difference
  • Bibliography
  • Recontextualizing Indigenous Knowledge on the Prussian-Lithuanian Frontier, ca. 1380-1410
  • Lithuania and the Wegeberichte
  • The leitsleute
  • Recontextualizing Knowledge
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Meubles: The Ever Mobile Middle Ages
  • Conservatory Processes: Sacrilege and Worship
  • "Furniture Worthy of an Enchanter's Palace": Restoration, Renovation, or Recycling?
  • The Ever Mobile Middle Ages
  • Bibliography
  • Reflection
  • Bibliography
  • Index