Hussein Fancy (@letfancyroam) kicks off our discussion of this panel by asking, "is the "global" in "global Middle Ages" a verb or an adjective?"
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Replying to @paularcurtis @letfancyroam
This was discussed in relation to self-critical reflection of the terminology and its issues but also why use it, as opposed to "world" by Gerry Heng in her roundtable on Global Middle Ages at MLA. Her point is, it's about interconnectedness & not world theories. & critically 1/2
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engages with the critical discussions in decolonial/postcolonial/anticolonial now in discussing this. So at least in one strain of the discussion of the Global Middle Ages, a discussion generated&worked on this since 2004, this has been written about & answered why use global.
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She has a number of collaborative and other articles on this topic that go back for quite a bit including the 2-part one on early globalities:https://www.academia.edu/28913418/Early_Globalities_Global_Literatures_Introducing_a_Special_Issue_on_the_Global_Middle_Ages …
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