The global North: spaces, connections, and networks before 1600

by Symes, Carol

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Full title :The global North : spaces, connections, and networks before 1600 / Carol Symes.

Summary

When Janet Abu-Lughod sketched the contours of a medieval "world system" in 1989, she located most communication networks in the southern hemisphere. In recent decades, however, new trends in research and new forms of evidence have complicated, enriched, and expanded this picture, geographically and chronologically. We now know that vast portions of the world were interconnected throughout the Middle Ages and, moreover, that the entire circumpolar North was a contact zone in its own right. In this volume, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the boreal globe from the late Iron Age to the seventeenth century, offering fresh perspectives that cross the frontiers of national historiographies and presenting new research on migration, trade, mapping, cultural exchange, and the interactions of humans with their environment --From back cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Arc Humanities Press
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

The Physical Object

Description:183 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781641894890, 164189489X
oclc:on1334675700
LC Classification:HF1379
Dewey Decimal:382/.09

Introduction: Exploring the Global North from the Iron Age to the Age of Sail / Carol Symes -- Contesting marginality: the Boreal forest of middle Scandinavian emporium of the Global North / Natalja V. Grigorjeva -- Gunhild's Cross and the North Atlantic trade sphere / Robyn Barrow -- The far North in the Eyes of Adam of Bremen and the anonymous author of the Historia Norwegie / Tatjana N. Jackson -- The multi-layered spatiality of the global north: spatial references and spatial constructions in medieval East Norse literature / Alexandra Petrulevich -- Military migration in the Baltic Sea region, ca. 1400-1620 / Martin Neuding Skoog -- Old and New Land in the North and West: the North Atlantic on the Medieval Globe around 1500 / Felicitas Schmieder.