Assembling the archaeology of the global Middle Ages

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3919958
AutoresBen Jervi (0000-0001-5295-0647, Cardiff University, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume49
Fascículo5
Páginas666-680
Data de publicação2017-10-20
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.2017.1406397
OpenAlexW2784995758
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas61

Responding to recent developments in archaeological theory and growing interest in the ‘global Middle Ages’, an approach to exploring relations between local and global processes in the medieval world is proposed. The World-systems approach, applied by some historians to these kinds of macro-paradigms and questions, can expose significant challenges regarding social and economic development at a global scale. However, here it is suggested that the ‘assemblage thought’ of Deleuze and Guattari, developed by DeLanda, might offer a more productive approach for assessing the multi-scalar interactions that defined the lives of communities in the Middle Ages. Here consideration is given to the character of the Middle Ages and its relation to modernity; the implications of the multi-scalar approach are also exemplified using a brief discussion of the Anglo-Italian wool trade in the Late Middle Ages

Ancient history · Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology · Epistemology · Ethnology · Middle Ages · Modernity · Relation (database · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Philosophy