The creative reuse of materials, texts, and ideas was a common phenomenon in the medieval world. The seven chapters offer here a synchronic and diachronic consideration of the receptions and meanings of events and artifacts, analyzing the processes that allowed medieval works to remain relevant in sociocultural contexts far removed from those in which they originated. In the process, they elucidate the global valences of recycling, revision, and relocation throughout the interconnected Middle Ages, and their continued relevance for the shaping of modernity. The essays examine cases in the Arab and Muslim world, China and Mongolia, and the Prussian-Lithuanian frontier of eastern Europe.
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- Table of contents
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- Introduction to Recreating the Medieval Globe: Acts of Recycling, Revision, and Relocation
- Note on the Transliteration of Arabic
- Bibliography
- Self-Revision and the Arabic Historical Tradition: Identifying Textual Reuse and Reorganization in the Works of Al-Baladhuri
- Notes on the Arabic Historical Tradition and Its Source Materials
- Author and Compiler—Compiler as Author
- Detecting Textual Reuse via Computer-Mediated Analysis
- Recycled Material from The Book of the Conquest of Lands in The Lineage of Nobles
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- When Curtains Fall: A Shape-Shifting Silk of the Late Abbasid Period
- Reconstructing the Silk Fragments
- The “Draped Universe” of Buyid Administration
- The Enduring Power of the Sitr in the Late Abbasid Era
- From Buyid Curtain to Seljuk Robe
- Reflecting on Alteration and Reuse in the Late Abbasid World
- Bibliography
- Salvaging Meaning: The Art of Recycling in Sino-Mongol Quanzhou, CA. 1276-1408
- Relocating Quanzhou: The Site, Its Inhabitants, and Their Religious Institutions
- Reusable Imagery: Picturing Natural and Supernatural Worlds in Stone
- Repurposed Iconography: Communicating Beliefs between Religions
- Reproductive Modules: Re-purposing and Replicating Salvaged Stone
- Re-installable Components: Architectural Detritus as Structural Element
- Saving Grace: Fabricating Tolerance from the Modularity of Difference
- Bibliography
- Recontextualizing Indigenous Knowledge on the Prussian–Lithuanian Frontier, ca. 1380–1410
- Lithuania and the Wegeberichte
- The leitsleute
- Recontextualizing Knowledge
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Meubles: The Ever Mobile Middle Ages
- Conservatory Processes: Sacrilege and Worship
- “Furniture Worthy of an Enchanter’s Palace”: Restoration, Renovation, or Recycling?
- The Ever Mobile Middle Ages
- Bibliography
- Reflection
- Index
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