Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful comparative and transdisciplinary studies, as this volume demonstrates, offering a wide range of innovative perspectives on often neglected literary, philosophical, historical, or medical documents. Texts, images, ideas, knowledge, and objects migrated throughout the world already in the pre-modern world, even if the quantitative level compared to the modern world might have been different. In fact, by means of translations and trade, for instance, global connections were established and maintained over the centuries. Archetypal motifs developed in many literatures indicate how much pre-modern people actually shared. But we also discover hard-core facts of global economic exchange, import of exotic medicine, and, on another level, intensive intellectual debates on religious issues. Literary evidence serves best to expose the extent to which contacts with people in foreign countries were imaginable, often desirable, and at times feared, of course. The pre-modern world was much more on the move and reached out to distant lands out of curiosity, economic interests, and political and military concerns. Diplomats crisscrossed the continents, and artists, poets, and craftsmen traveled widely. We can identify, for instance, both the Vikings and the Arabs as global players long before the rise of modern globalism, so this volume promises to rewrite many of our traditional notions about pre-modern worldviews, economic conditions, and the literary sharing on a global level, as perhaps best expressed by the genre of the fable.

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Contents 6
Globalism in the Pre-Modern World? Questions, Challenges, and the Emergence of a New Approach to the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age 10
Global Inferno: Medieval Giants, Monsters, and the Breaching of the Great Barrier 108
Swords as Medieval Icons and Early “Global Brands” 156
Ecce! A Ninth-Century Isidorean T-O Map Labeled in Arabic 198
Going Rogue Across the Globe: International Vagrants, Outlaws, Bandits, and Tricksters from Medieval Europe, Asia, and the Middle East 230
Modifying Ancestral Memories in Post-Carolingian West Francia and Post-Tang Wuyue China 256
Scalping Saint Peter’s Head: An Interreligious Controversy over a Punishment from Baghdad to Rome (Eighth to Twelfth Centuries) 282
A Global Dialogue in al-Kindī’s “A Short Treatise on the Soul” 302
Globalism in Paul of Antioch’s Letter to a Muslim Friend and Its Refutation by Ibn Taymiyya 324
The Global Fable in the Middle Ages 360
Globalism in the Late Middle Ages: The Low German Niederrheinische Orientbericht as a Significant Outpost of a Paradigm Shift. The Move Away from Traditional Eurocentrism 390
The Germanic Translations of Lanfranc’s Surgical Works as Example of Global Circulation of Knowledge 416
Brick by Brick: Constructing Identity at Don Lope Fernández de Luna’s Parroquieta at La Seo 454
Quello assalto di Otranto fu cagione di assai male. First Results of a Study of the Globalization in the Neapolitan Army in the 1480s 472
The Diplomat and the Public House: Ioannes Dantiscus (1485–1548) and His Use of the Inns, Taverns, and Alehouses of Europe 494
Globalism During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I 518
Between East and West: John Pory’s Translation of Leo Africanus’s Description of Africa 546
The Old and the New – Pepper, Bezoar, and Other Exotic Substances in Bohemian Narratives about Distant Lands from the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (up to the 1560s) 562
John Dee and the Creation of the British Empire 590
Eberhard Werner Happel: A Seventeenth-Century Cosmographer and Cosmopolitan 604
Globalism Before Modern Globalism 622
List of Illustrations 632
Biographies of the Contributors 636
Index 644

2024-06-12