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Order Into Action: How Large-Scale Concepts of World-Order Determine Practices in the Premodern World: 40 (Cursor Mundi) - Hardcover

 
9782503590462: Order Into Action: How Large-Scale Concepts of World-Order Determine Practices in the Premodern World: 40 (Cursor Mundi)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 2503590462 ISBN 13: 9782503590462
Publisher: Brepols N.V., 2022

Synopsis

The construction and application of models that order complex phenomena such as ‘the world’ is not a ‘neutral’ activity: theoretical models and ideas help us to perceive and categorize the information conveyed by experience and tradition alike; in turn, they also influence the behaviour and actions of individuals and groups. Collecting a global series of case studies on premodern societies, this volume proposes new approaches to research into premodern models of world-order and their effects. With its focus on the period between c. 1300 and 1600, it seeks to open up fresh perspectives for premodern Global History and the analysis of phenomena of transcultural contact and exchange. Focussing on religious, political, and geographical ideas and models, the contributions explore whether and how large-scale concepts influenced or even determined concrete actions. The examples include socio-religious concepts (Christianity, terra paganorum, dār al-ḥarb), political concepts (empire) and geographical notions. A special section is dedicated to comparative insights into societies in Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, and pre-Columbian America. Taken together, the contributions underline the importance and effects of historically shaped cultural traits in the long term.

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About the Author

Christoph Mauntel is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Medieval History (University of Tübingen). His research focuses on late medieval political culture (esp. in France) and the interrelation between geographical and cultural concepts in premodern cultures.Klaus Oschema is professor of (late) medieval history at the Ruhr-University Bochum. His specialisation includes late medieval nobility and society, the concept of Europe in the Middle Ages and transcultural contacts and transmission of knowledge.

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Publisher
Brepols N.V.
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
2503590462
ISBN 13 
9782503590462
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
332
Editor
Mauntel Christof, Oschema Klaus