Entangled worlds : 600-1350 / edited by Daniel G. König.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

König, Daniel G., editor.

Contributor:

Iriye, Akira.

Osterhammel, Jürgen.

Standen, Naomi.

Wink, André.

Borgolte, Michael.

Fauvelle-Aymar, François-Xavier.

Beekman, Christopher S.

Jennings, Justin.

Mathiowetz, Michael D.

Series:

History of the world (Belknap Press)

A History of the World Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages.

Civilization, Medieval.

Cultural fusion--History.

Cultural fusion.

East and West--History.

East and West.

North and south--History.

North and south.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1320 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Far from a stagnant "Middle Ages," the years 600-1350 witnessed globalization and social innovation. Entangled Worlds explores long-distance trade in the Americas, cosmopolitan effects of Islamic and Mongol expansion, the spread of monotheist and Sinitic models of sociocultural organization, and the birth of settled political order in South Asia." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Daniel G. König

One. Structure and History in the Americas: Closed and Interconnected? / Christopher S. Beekman, Justin Jennings, and Michael D. Mathiowetz

Introduction

1. Tools and Datasets

2. Environmental Preconditions of Connectivity and Human Strategies to Overcome Them

3. American Macroregions: Societal Organization and Interaction

4. Connectivity and Entanglement in the Americas

Two. The Emergence of an Islamic Commonwealth / Daniel G. König

1. Preconditions of Muslim Expansion

2. The Protoglobal Expansion of Muslims

3. The Genesis of an Imperial Culture: Transregional Standardization and Its Limits

4. Imperial Disintegration and the Emergence of the Islamic Commonwealth

5. The Islamic Commonwealth and Its Legacy

Three. The Continentalization of Europe / Michael Borgolte

Introduction: Europe as Part of the Ecumene

1. Europe around 600

2. Transportation Infrastructure and Patterns of Settlement

3. Mobilities, or Overcoming Isolation

4. Migrations and Cultural Change

5. Marco Polo, the Plague, and the Uncertainty of Globalization around 1350

Four. Sub-Saharan African Societies in Conversation with Islam / François-Xavier Fauvelle

1. Christian Africas Challenged by Islam

2. New African "Shores": The Sahelian Ribbon and the Swahili Coast

3. Trans-Saharan Relationships: Agents and Routes

4. Circulations, Transformations, and Expectations: A Commercial Conversation between Sub-Saharan Africa and the Wider World

5. Broker States of Medieval Africa

6. Narrative Agency, Ambivalence, and the Indeterminacy of Sub-Saharan African Broker States

7. Epilogue: Entangled Dynamics across (and beyond) the Continent.

Five. The Creation of a Settled Civilization and the Rise of Islam in Medieval India / André Wink

1. Agriculture, Settled Society, Kingship, and Religion

2. India and the Nomadic Frontier

3. The Maritime Frontier: Seafaring, Trade, and Politics in the Indian Ocean

4. The Rise of Islam

Six. Devotions, Followership, and Communities in Eastern Eurasia / Naomi Standen

1. Definitions and Characteristics of Eastern Eurasia

2. Networks into the Eighth Century: Devotions, Politics, and Exchanges

3. Buddhisms Everywhere: The Common Pool and Diversity from the Eighth Century

4. Intensified Interactions: Localization and Communication in the Tenth to Twelfth Centuries

5. Transformations, Expansions, and Conquests in the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries: Reshaping Eastern Eurasia

6. Eastern Eurasia Reimagined.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical reference and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-674-29777-6

0-674-29776-8

OCLC:

1490383272