Toward a Global Middle Ages: Defining and Curating a Concept

09/12/2019 19 min
Toward a Global Middle Ages: Defining and Curating a Concept

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Global approaches to the Middle Ages have long been part of historical and literary studies, but only over the last ten years or so has a global approach emerged within the field of art history. In this episode, Bryan C. Keene, associate curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum, discusses the timeline of assembling his monumental edited volume Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts, and what a “Global Middle Ages” actually means.

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