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Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts ed. by Bryan C. Keene

Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts ed. by Bryan... Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/1/114/867410/0270114.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 Bryan C. Keene, ed., Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019), 296 pp. To review a book on any aspect of globalization in the midst of a pandemic is to ree fl ct on the ways in which the term globalization has been mobilized in eco- nomics, politics, and, not least, cultural studies. Whether COVID- 19 or climate change, the world confronts existential challenges that are all- encompassing in scale and scope. This admirable collection of essays, which followed from the exh- i bitions Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts (2016) and Pathways to Paradise: Medieval India and Europe (2018), examines the phenomenon historically through the medium of the illuminated manuscript. In general, it regards glo - balization, understood historically in the past as a decentered process of encoun - ter and exchange among far-u fl ng cultures, or historiographically in the present as a concerted effort to uncover cultural interactions and interdependence— s as a positive development. In this way it represents a welcome extension of cri - tiques of colonialism or simplistic models of inu http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts ed. by Bryan C. Keene

Hamburger, Jeffrey F.
Common Knowledge , Volume 27 (1) – Jan 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/1/114/867410/0270114.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 Bryan C. Keene, ed., Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019), 296 pp. To review a book on any aspect of globalization in the midst of a pandemic is to ree fl ct on the ways in which the term globalization has been mobilized in eco- nomics, politics, and, not least, cultural studies. Whether COVID- 19 or climate change, the world confronts existential challenges that are all- encompassing in scale and scope. This admirable collection of essays, which followed from the exh- i bitions Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts (2016) and Pathways to Paradise: Medieval India and Europe (2018), examines the phenomenon historically through the medium of the illuminated manuscript. In general, it regards glo - balization, understood historically in the past as a decentered process of encoun - ter and exchange among far-u fl ng cultures, or historiographically in the present as a concerted effort to uncover cultural interactions and interdependence— s as a positive development. In this way it represents a welcome extension of cri - tiques of colonialism or simplistic models of inu

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