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Medieval Worlds: Origins, Nature, Debates, and Exchanges
Author:
Rila Mukherjee
Series:
The Global Fabric: Histories Across Time
ISBN:
9789376540020
Binding:
Paperback
Year:
2027
Size:
15 x 23 cm
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What was the medieval world, and can its history be understood through Europe alone?
Medieval Worlds: Origins, Nature, Debates, and Exchanges
introduces students to the major social formations, cultural patterns, debates, and transformations of the medieval period while placing Europe within a wider world of movement and connection. Ideas and religions, objects and technologies, commodities and institutions, and peoples themselves travelled across regions, shaping histories that cannot be understood in isolation.Written in alignment with DS 4, ‘Aspects of Medieval World History’, under the National Education Policy 2020, and the UGC-recommended paper ‘Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Medieval World’, the book moves beyond the conventional division of history into politics, economy, and culture. It brings environmental history, disease, and climate into the discussion and extends the field of vision to China and Africa.Part of
The Global Fabric: Histories Across Time
,
Medieval Worlds
invites students to see the medieval past not as a collection of separate civilisations, but as a world formed through exchanges, encounters, and connections.
About the Author
Rila Mukherjee
Rila Mukherjee taught history for thirty-one years at Jadavpur University and the University of Hyderabad. In her teaching and writing on European and world history, she has drawn on original materials in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English to explain major historical ideas, debates, and changes clearly to students and teachers.
She has written textbooks, reference works, and historical surveys, and has taken part in international research projects on Europe-Asia relations supported by institutions and funding bodies in France, the United Kingdom, and Japan. She has also reviewed research for international funding agencies and institutions, including the European Science Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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