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Author Franklin, Kathryn J., author.

Title Everyday cosmopolitanisms : living the Silk Road in medieval Armenia / Kate Franklin.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Silk Road, medieval globality, and 'everyday cosmopolitanism' -- The Silk Road as literary spacetime -- Techniques of worldmaking in medieval Armenia -- Making and unmaking the world of the Kasakh Valley -- Traveling through Armenia : caravan inns and the material experience of Silk Road travel -- The world in a bowl : intimate and delicious everyday spacetimes on the Silk Road -- Everyday cosmopolitanisms : rewriting the shape of the Silk Road world.
Summary "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 ordinary people who inhabited the route and contributed as much to its development as their itinerant counterparts. In this book, Kate Franklin takes the highlands of medieval Armenia as a compelling case study for examining how early globalization and everyday life intertwined along the Silk Road. She argues that Armenia--and the Silk Road itself--consisted of the overlapping worlds created by a diverse assortment of people: not only long-distance travelers but also the local rulers and subjects who lived in Armenia's mountain valleys and along its highways. Franklin guides the reader through increasingly intimate scales of global exchange to highlight the cosmopolitan dimensions of daily life, as she vividly reconstructs how people living in and passing through the medieval Caucasus understood the world and their place within it. With its innovative focus on the far-reaching implications of local practices, Everyday Cosmopolitanisms brings the study of medieval Eurasia into relation with contemporary investigations of cosmopolitanism and globalization, challenging persistent divisions between modern and medieval, global and quotidian"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Trade routes -- Caucasus -- History.
Silk Road -- Description and travel -- History.
Silk Road -- History, Local.
Armenia -- History -- 428-1522.
Silk Road -- Description and travel.
Routes commerciales -- Caucase -- Histoire.
Route de la soie -- Descriptions et voyages.
Route de la soie -- Histoire locale.
Arménie -- Histoire -- 428-1522.
HISTORY / World.
Trade routes
Travel
Armenia
Asia -- Silk Road
Caucasus
Chronological Term 428-1522
Genre/Form History
Local history
Other Form: Print version: Franklin, Kathryn J. Everyday cosmopolitanisms Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] 9780520380929 (DLC) 2021012048
ISBN 0520380932
9780520380936 (electronic bk.)
9780520380929 (paperback)
Standard No. AU@ 000070533358
AU@ 000075636095

 
    
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