Special Issue of The Medieval Globe: Medieval Re-Creations: Acts of Recycling, Revision, and Relocation

Abstract

The creative reuse of materials, texts, and ideas was a common phenomenon in the medieval world. The essays in this volume offer a synchronic and diachronic consideration of the receptions and meanings of events and artifacts, analyzing the processes that allowed medieval works to remain relevant in sociocultural contexts far removed from those in which they originated. In the process, they elucidate the global valences of recycling, revision, and relocation throughout the interconnected Middle Ages, and their continued relevance for the shaping of modernity.