Toward a global Middle Ages: encountering the world through illuminated manuscripts

Director's Foreword / Timothy Potts

Acknowledgments

Prologue / Bryan C. Keene

Introduction: Manuscripts and Their Outlook on the World / Bryan C. Keene

A Timeline for a Global Middle Ages: Linear Time and Modes of Remembering the Past / Morgan Conger

Glimpsing a Global Middle Ages / Bryan C. Keene

World Views and the Map Makers' Craft / Jerry Brotton

Stories and Pictures from All the World: South Asian Book Arts from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century / Alka Patel

The Middle Ages, Middle America, and the Book / Byron Ellsworth Hamann

Where Is Medieval Ethiopia? Mapping Ethiopic Studies within Medieval Studies / Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Manuscripts and the Medieval Tropics / Alex J. West

Case Study, Mapping Global Middle Ages / Asa Simon Mittman

The Intermediality of "the Book": Bound, Rolled, and Folded Textual Objects / Bryan C. Keene

Buddhist Illuminated Manuscripts in East Asia / J. Sören Edgren

Case Study, Traveling Medicine: Medieval Ethiopian Amulet Scrolls and Practitioners' Handbooks / Eyob Derillo

The Painter's Line on Paper and Clay: Maya Codices and Codex-Style Vessels from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Century / Megan E. O'Neil

Case Study, Missionary Effects and Messianic Aspirations at the Court of Shah ʻAbbas / Sussan Babaie

Reproducing the Resurrection: From European Prints to Armenian Manuscripts / Sylvie L. Merian

Identity: Finding One's Place in the Medieval World / Bryan C. Keene

Imperial Brutality: Racial Difference and the Intersectionality of the Ethiopian Eunuch / Roland Betancourt

Case Study, Mobilizing the Collection: Teaching Beyond the (Medieval) Canon with Museum Objects / Kristen Collins and Bryan C. Keene

Color, Culture, and the Making of Difference in the Vidal Mayor / Pamela A. Patton

Case Study, Horses, Arrows, and Trebuchets: Picturing the Mongol Military Campaign in Eurasia / Kaiqi Hua

Novelty and Diversity in Illustrations of Marco Polo's Description of the World / Mark Cruse

Case Study, Visualizing Byzantine and Islamic Devotional Objects in Two Fifteenth-Century Francophone Manuscripts / Alexandra Kaczenski

Itineraries from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Travel, Circulation, and Exchange / Bryan C. Keene

Transplants and Transformations in a Global Middle Ages / Jill Caskey

Case Study, Manuscripts, Faith, and Trade across the Medieval Sahara / Michelle H. Craig

Narrative Shifts: The Life of the Buddha in Palm-Leaf Manuscripts / Tushara Bindu Gude

Traveling off the Page: Bringing the Voyage to Life in Hebrew Poetry and Paintings / Melanie Holcomb and Elizabeth A. Eisenberg

Case Study, Peregrinations of Parchment and Pewter: Manuscripts and Mental Pilgrimage / Rheagan Eric Martin

Epilogue: Global History and the Art Museum / James Cuno.