Everyday Cosmopolitanisms Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Widely studied and hotly debated, the Silk Road is often viewed as a precursor to contemporary globalization, the merchants who traversed it as early agents of cultural exchange. Missing are the lives of the ordi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Franklin, Kate author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [s.l.] : University of California Press 2021.
Edición:1 ed
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • 1 The Silk Road, Medieval Globality, and "Everyday Cosmopolitanism"
  • 2 The Silk Road as a Literary Spacetime
  • 3 Techniques of World-Making in Medieval Armenia
  • 4 Making and Remaking the World of the Kasakh Valley
  • 5. Traveling through Armenia: Caravan Inns and the Material Experience of the Silk Road
  • 6. The World in a Bowl: Intimate and Delicious Everyday Spacetimes on the Silk Road
  • 7. Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Rewriting the Shape of the Silk Road World
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index