International Medieval Congress 2017, Leeds: ‘In Other Words: Redrawing Frameworks Using the ‘Global Middle Ages’ as Method’, 6 July 2017

Global medievalists seek meaning from positions within a context of globalised and post-colonial modernity, inescapably aware of troubling and persistent power relationships - economic, political, and intellectual - between Global North and South. But in this framing, modernity also exerts power over a medieval Other. The papers in these panels seek to create spaces where the medieval can speak back to the hegemonic power of the modern, using the Global Middle Ages as a method through which to propose readings of global medieval cases that unpick and unpack standard concepts and vocabulary such as encounter, identity, the local, nomadism, religion, and the state.

Thursday 6 July 2017: Maurice Keyworth Building (Room 1.03)
09.00 to 10.30
Session 1514 'In other words: Redrawing Frameworks using the 'Global Middle Ages' as method: I

Moderator: Naomi Standen

Amanda Power, Making Identities: Clerical Sources in Global History
Elizabeth Lambourn, Eating together, Eating apart: Sojourning 'Others' and Commensal Practices in 12th -century Malabar
Catherine Holmes, Acculturation, Encounter or Something Else? The Life and Writings of Francesco Suriano, a Merchant, Mendicant and Missionary in the Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1500

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Thursday 6 July 2017: Maurice Keyworth Building (Room 1.03)
11.15 to 12.45
Session 1614 'In other words: Redrawing Frameworks using the 'Global Middle Ages' as method: II

Moderator: Catherine Holmes

Simon Yarrow, Political Economy as 'Other': the View from the Global Middle Ages?
Yoichi Isahaya, Ilkhanid Translation Project: toward Meso-History between Global and Local Perspectives

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