Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages
This exclusive major reference work commissioned by Arc Humanities Press takes an inclusive approach to the history of the middle ages. It includes overviews based on specific regional areas as well as thematic overviews of key concepts within their global contexts.
The encyclopedia provides readers with scholarly articles by global contributors and specialists in all things Medieval, to bring the Medieval world alive and present how, as today, diversity and connection competed with isolation and conflict during this significant era in global history.
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Introducing the Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages
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Introducing the Medieval Globe
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Introduction to the Bibliographies of the Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages
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Bibliography of Disabilities
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Bibliography of Fragments and Fragmentology
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Bibliography of Hagiography
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Bibliography of the Bible
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Bibliography of Sorcery and Marginalization Tactics, 500–1500
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Bibliography of Women’s Letters, 400–1500
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Fictive and Adoptive Kinship in Medieval Islamicate Societies
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Kinship and Gender in Medieval Western Europe
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Kinship and Power: Dynasty, Lineage, and Social Networks
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Life-Stages in the Byzantine Middle Ages
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Marriage
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Rebellion and Unrest in the Global Medieval World
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The Early Tales of Robin Hood
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Jewish Pogroms and the Massacre of York
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The Jack Cade Rebellion
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The Crown of Aragon and the Mediterranean
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Queenship
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Female Agency in Nasrid Islamic Granada in the Fifteenth Century
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Proto-Mongol Khitan Empresses and Emperor Dowagers in the Tenth to Early Twelfth Centuries
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Queenship in the Sultanate of Delhi (1206–1526)
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Tamar of Georgia, 1184–1213
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Welsh Queenship in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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Wu Zetian Tang Empress (624-725)
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Sanctuary Law in Medieval Europe
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The Armenian Lordships in the Levant, ca. 1020–1130
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SPQR and the Rise of the Comune Romano in the Middle Ages
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Rome and the Romans in the Tenth Century
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The Byzantine Empire, 395–1453
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Intellectual Discourse and Global Connectivity in the Early Middle Ages
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Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Crusader States
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Barbarism
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Sorcery and Marginalization Tactics, 500–1500
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The Other, Otherness, and Othering in the Middle Ages
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Agrarian Maya Culture and Civilization
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Fish Farming and the Carp in Medieval Europe
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Trade Systems, 600–900: Tang China and the Abbasid Caliphate
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The Cowrie in East Africa
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Venetian Trade from the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century
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Waste Management in Medieval Europe
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Prester John
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The Arthurian Manuscript Tradition in France
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European Medieval Manuscripts
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Chaucer and Italian Humanism
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Chaucer “for Children”
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Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1342/3–1400)
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Adapting the Wife of Bath in the Twenty-first Century
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Geoffrey Chaucer and Literary Traditions
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Early Byzantine Architecture, 330–843
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Middle Byzantine Architecture, 843–1261
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Late Byzantine Architecture, 1261–1453
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Animals and Animal Studies
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Dogs in the Medieval Period
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North Atlantic Right Whales
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Owls in Medieval Britain
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Ravens in Medieval Northwest Europe
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Wood Use in Northern Europe
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Holy Persons in the Global Middle Ages
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Imperial Sainthood in Medieval Europe
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Eknath of Paithan and Hindu Devotionalism
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Hildegard of Bingen and the Four Temperaments Theory
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Künga Zangpo and Tibetan Buddhist Hagiography
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Medicants and Mesoamericans
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Musical Hagiography in Western Europe with Reference to the Cult of St Nicholas of Myra
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St George (Jirjīs) in Christian and Islamic Hagiography
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Monastery Buildings from Medieval Denmark
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Healing with Saints in Later Medieval Europe
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The Life and Passion of Christ in the Middle Ages
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The Apocalyptic Prophecy Entitled The Last Vision of the Prophet Daniel
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Disabilities in the Middle Ages
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Injuries, Amputation and Disability in the Middle Ages
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Mental Health in the Middle Ages
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Religion and Disability
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Medieval and Premodern Zootherapy
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Healing with Saints in Later Medieval Europe
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Health and Wellbeing in Later Medieval Europe 1200–1600
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Gender in the Middle Ages
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Medieval Transgender Studies
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Fragments and Fragmentology
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African Periodization and the “Medieval” World
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Aotearoa-New Zealand in the Middle Ages
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Southeast Asia (500–1500)
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Inner Asia in the Sixth–Ninth Centuries
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The Korean Kingdom of Silla (ca. 300–935)
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Late Antique and Medieval Ethiopia: 300–1500
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Late Antique and Medieval Nubia: ca. 500–1500
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The Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus 1192–1473
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The Maya Civilization, 600–1500 CE
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Medieval Japan, 1100–1600
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Oceania 500–1000
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South Arabia in the Middle Ages
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Tang China (618–907)
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Music and Sexuality in the Medieval West
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Socio-economic Status and Sexuality in the Middle Ages
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Music and Sexuality in the Medieval West
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Astronomical Imagery
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Late Medieval Visual Culture in Eastern Europe
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Misericords
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Altar Frontal with Deesis from the Perspective of Art History
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Altar Frontal with Deesis from the Perspective of Religious Function
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Akathistos Cycle from the Perspective of Art History and Religious Experience
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Akathistos Cycle from the Perspective of Iconography and Visual Culture
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Bell-lamp of Oran from the Perspective of Art History
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Bell-lamp of Oran from the Perspective of Cultural History
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Bishop Arculf’s Sketches of Pilgrim’s Places in Jerusalem (later seventh century) from the Perspective of the Technique Used to Create Them
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The Carolingian Plan of St. Gall from the Perspective of an Historian
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The Carolingian Plan of St. Gall from the Perspective of the Technique Used to Create It
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Cosmatesque Pavement of Santi Quattro Coronati, Rome from the Perspective of Art History
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The Crucifixion Panel of a Wooden Chest from the Perspective of Art History
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The Crucifixion Panel of a Wooden Chest from the Perspective of Technique, Form, and Function
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Curtea de Argeș Monastery, Wallachia from the Perspective of Architecture
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Curtea de Argeș Monastery, Wallachia (the Wall Paintings) from the Perspective of Art History
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Dečani Monastery, Kosovo from the Perspective of Heritage
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Dečani Monastery from the Perspective of Hierotopy
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Greek Stole (Epitrachelion) from the Perspective of Art History
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Greek Stole (Epitrachelion) from the Perspective of Iconography
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The Icon of the Virgin from the Perspective of Art History
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The Icon of the Virgin from the Perspective of Religious Experience
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Thirteenth-century Ivory Crozier from Greenland from the Perspective of Economic History
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The Liber Viventium of Pfäfers Abbey, Switzerland from the Perspective of Liturgy and Memoria
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The Liber Viventium of Pfäfers Abbey, Switzerland from the Perspective of History and Memory
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Thirteenth-century Persian Lustre Bowl with Zodiac Signs from the Perspective of History of Science
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Thirteenth-century Persian Lustre Bowl with Zodiac Signs from the Perspective of Art History
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Transfiguration Apse Mosaic, mid-sixth century, St. Catherine’s Monastery at Sinai, from a Historical-Political Perspective
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Triptych with the Mandylion from the Perspective of Art History
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Triptych with the Mandylion from the Perspective of Theological Meaning
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