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The Medieval Globe The Medieval Globe Volume 2 Number 1 Article 1 December 2015 The Medieval Globe 2.1 (2016) Carol Symes University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/tmg Part of the Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture Commons, Classics Commons, Comparative and Foreign Law Commons, Comparative Literature Commons, Comparative Methodologies and Theories Commons, Comparative Philosophy Commons, Medieval History Commons, Medieval Studies Commons, and the Theatre History Commons Recommended Citation Symes, Carol (2015) "The Medieval Globe 2.1 (2016)," The Medieval Globe: Vol. 2 : No. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/tmg/vol2/iss1/1 This Complete Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Medieval Institute Publications at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Medieval Globe by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE MEDIEVAL GLOBE Volume 2.1 | 2016 THE MEDIEVAL GLOBE The Medieval Globe provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholars of all world areas by focusing on convergence, movement, and interdependence. Contri­ not encompass the globe in any territorial sense. Rather, TMG advan ces a new butions to a global understanding of the medieval period (broadly defined) need theory and praxis of medieval studies by bringing into view phenomena that have been rendered practically or conceptually invisible by anachronistic boundaries, categories, and expectations. TMG also broadens dis cussion of the ways that medieval processes inform the global present and shape visions of the future. Submissions are invited for future issues: please contact the Editorial Board by a double­blind peer review process. For more information about TMG, with ([email protected]). All articles will be evaluated by the editors and further details about submissions and peer review policy, please visit the journal’s website: www.arc­humanities.org/the­medieval­globe.html. The mark of The Medieval Globe was designed by Matthew Peterson and draws on elements derived from six different medieval world maps. Executive Editor Carol Symes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Editorial Board James Barrett, University of Cambridge Kathleen Davis, University of Rhode Island University of Notre Dame Elizabeth Lambourn, De Montfort University Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Yuen­Gen Liang, Wheaton College Victor Lieberman, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Carla Nappi, University of British Columbia Elizabeth Oyler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Christian Raffensperger, Wittenberg University Rein Raud, University of Helsinki & Tallinn University D. Fairchild Ruggles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bryn Mawr College Alicia Walker, THE MEDIEVAL GLOBE Volume 2.1 | 2016 Copyeditor Shannon Cunningham Editorial Assistant Kelli McQueen Page design and typesetting Martine Maguire-Weltecke Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress © 2016, Arc Medieval Press, Kalamazoo and Bradford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence. Permission to use brief excerpts from this work in scholarly and educational works is hereby The authors assert their moral right to be identified as the authors of their part of this work. granted provided that the source is acknowledged. Any use of material in this work that is an exception or limitation covered by Article 5 of the European Union’s Copyright Directive (2001/29/EC) or would be determined to be “fair use” under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act September 2010 Page 2 or that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 108 of the U.S. Copy- right Act (17 USC §108, as revised by P.L. 94-553) does not require the Publisher’s permission. ISSN 2377-3561 (print) ISSNwww.arc-humanities.org 2377-3553 (online) CONTENTS .................................................................. vi List of Illustrations Editor’s Preface CAROL SYMES ...................................................................vii KATHLEEN DAVIS and MICHAEL PUETT ......................................1 Periodization and “The Medieval Globe”: A Conversation Identity in Flux: Finding Boris Kolomanovich CHRISTIAN RAFFENSPERGER ................................................. in the Interstices of Medieval European History 15 The Geographic and Social Mobility of Slaves: The Rise of D. FaIRCHILD RUGGLES ........................................................ Shajar Al-Durr, a Slave-Concubine in Thirteenth-Century Egypt 41 Bahrī Towards A Connected History of Equine Cultures in South Asia: ELIZABETH LAMBOURN ....................................................... (Sea) Horses and “Horsemania” in Thirteenth-Century South India 57 The Painter, the Warrior, and the Sultan: SHARON KINOSHITA .........................................................101 The World of Marco Polo in Three Portraits Japan On The Medieval Globe: The Wakan rōeishū ELIZABETH OYLER ...........................................................129 and Imagined Landscapes in Early Medieval Texts Tilting Toward the Light: CARLA NappI ................................................................. Translating the Medieval World on the Ming-Mongolian Frontier 157 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figures ...................................21 Figure 1. Boris’s Ancestors and Their Families......................................... Figure 2. Boris’s Immediate Natal Family .....................................23 Figure 3. Boris’s Allies and Enemies in 1132 ..............................27 Figure 4. Boris’s Allies of 1146 and Their Families 32 ...................... Figure 5. View of the Lower Level of the Kesava Temple at Somanathapur in Karnataka, Hoysala, ca. 1268 CE 75 Figure 6. Hero Stone Showing a Single Mounted Horseman in Battle, ............................... from Tripuran takam, Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh (Kakatiya Period, Thirteenth Century CE) 77 Sesaraya Mandapa at Srirangam, Tiruchchirapalli in Tamil Nadu Figure 7. Rearing Horse Depicted on Composite Columns at the ........................ (Vijayanagara Period, Mid-Sixteenth Century CE) 93 Plate Maqamat ................................................ Plate 1. A Slave Market: From the by al-Hariri, Painted by al-Wasiti, 1237. 45 Maps ......................................... Map 1. The World of Boris Kolomanovich ......................17 Map 2. Slave Routes in the Late Ayyubid Period, 1240s CE .....................43 Map 3. South India Showing Select Locations and Features 63 EDITOR’S PREFACE CAROL SYMES The Medieval Globe grew out of a conference hosted by the Program in Medieval Studies at the Uni ver sity of Illinois, in April of 2012: “The Medieval Globe: ­ Communication, Connectivity, Exchange.” The articles in this issue are products of tributions to the study of a medieval world whose interconnected regions, peo­ that meeting and, like the papers from which they grew, represent significant con ples, and cultures we are only just beginning to understand. They also exemplify the collegiality, generosity, and critical rigor embodied by the people who made that conference an extraordinary experience.1 periodization, by Kathleen Davis and Michael Puett, captures the essence of the Indeed, the opening dialogue on the authors help to frame one of TMG’s core missions by examining two historio­ lively discussions that followed all the individual conference presentations. In it, a crucial role. The articles that follow this dialogue appear in more conventional graphical/imperial discourses in which the construct of “the medieval” has played scholarly formats, but they display a similar commitment to asking big questions, . modeling portable methodologies, and looking at specific topics and problems from new angles. I hope they will inspire many readers and future contributors Carol Symes is the founding executive editor of The Medi- eval Globe ([email protected]) . She is the Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar at the Uni ver sity of Illinois, where she is an associate professor of history with joint appoint ments history of communication technologies, the social and cul tural history of west­ in medieval studies, global studies, and theatre. Her own research focuses on the ern Europe from c modern world. 1000 to 1300, and the abiding influence of medievalism in the 1 In addition to the scholars whose work appears in the present issue, this conference was enriched by the contributions of Jonathan Conant, Margot Fassler, Geraldine Heng, Linda Komaroff, Eleanora Stoppino, and Nicolás Wey Goméz. Perennial thanks are due to my co-organizers, Elizabeth Oyler, D. Fairchild Ruggles, and Nora Stoppino, and (as ever) to Charles D. Wright, then Director of the Program in Medieval Studies at the Uni ver sity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. vii The Medieval Globe 2.1 (2016) 10.17302/TMG.2-1.1 p. PERIODIZATION AND “THE MEDIEVAL GLOBE”: A CONVERSATION KATHLEEN DAVIS and MICHAEL PUETT The idea for this conversation emerged out of “The Medieval Globe: Communi - cation, Connectivity, and Exchange,” a conference held at the Uni ver sity of Illinois in April of 2012. Its authors represent different scholarly disciplines and fields of study, and yet both presented papers that engaged with very similar issues—and that touched off a series of broader discussions
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