... about models of expansion and domi- nation in the post-Roman world. Familiar too are the aggressively imperial dynasties of Byzantium and the Ottonians.2 Yet classical culture, and medieval culture following it, conceived of the world as tripartite, and trans- forming the dialectal interplay between...

... cry from modern audiences’ tendency to forsake the creative scholar in favor of the seductive bullshitter. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 John Dee Brytanici Imperii Limites English historiography historical credibility politics of imperial expansion ...

... the potential rewards and consequences of imperial expansion from a terrestrial, local, and communal perspective. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 British Empire English sailors ballads seafaring life family and community Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:2, May 2020...

... Anglophone world. Modern scholarship, however, has long dispelled the myth of English exceptionalism. Notwithstanding the idiosyncratic nature of Protestant reform in England, such mapping tends to date itself as a remnant of anachronistic Anglican mythologizing. Riding the tide of imperial expansion...

.... 13 See recent studies of the Deccan: Roy Fischel, Local States in an Imperial World: Identity, Society, and Politics in the Early Modern Deccan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020); and Lennart Bes, The Heirs of Vijayanagara: Court Politics in Early Modern South India (Leiden: Leiden...

..., as is evident in much recent work produced by medieval scholars.4 Of the scholarship produced within both medieval and Victorian studies, a substantial proportion has been devoted to exploring the role of medievalism in the formulation of cultural, political...

... and literary periodization. It is no surprise that it should occupy such a place: the year seemed to usher in a new order from its very begin- ning, with the January 2 fall of Granada to the forces of Ferdinand and Isa- bella, in the culmination of the Christian territorial expansion tendentiously known...

..., challenge, or transcend dichotomies of religion and race? Contributors might also wish to explore, in dialogue with recent postcolonial scholarship on later periods, medieval cultural forms that reveal the effects of indigenous resistance to imperial expansion, tensions between racial formations, attempts...

... of indigenous resistance to imperial expansion, tensions between racial formations, attempts to understand differences relativistically or universally, or that reveal a commitment to values of pluralism and equality. Essays may be comparative or focus on a single text or tradition. The primary stipulation...

... stronghold of Acre, objects such as the gates of Janus in imperial Rome, the Tower of Babel, and the fortified city of Troy serve as potent emblems of turning points in the historical past and as potential springboards toward an imagined future. These monumental points of reference form a lattice...

..., medieval cultural forms that reveal the effects of indigenous resistance to imperial expansion, tensions between racial formations, attempts to understand differences relativistically or universally, or that reveal a commitment to values of pluralism and equality. Essays may be comparative or focus...

... of geography? There are many reasons to believe so. The history of “The Mid- dle Ages” begins at the precise moment when European imperial and colo- nial expansion begins.1 The Middle Ages is Europe’s Dark Continent of History, even as Africa is its Dark Ages of Geography...

...- lemme Liberata, but includes historical and empirical writings of many sorts that develop their own programs for figuring landscape politically. When we put Spenser, the observer of imperial designs, alongside contemporaneous Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39:1...

... Mediterra- nean. In fact, the inland sea, in volume two of his work, is a ground for the interplay of imperial power politics. Of the battle of Lepanto in 1571, Braudel wrote that beneath the surface of events “we shall find that the ripples from Lepanto spread silently, inconspicuously, far and wide...

... the plague of 1348. Petrarch's letters enable us to perceive how he shaped his early experiences in the mold of his later misfortunes. Imperialism, cultural and political, provided Petrarch in 1351 with rhetorical materials to refashion setbacks endured during the previous decade, which had turned his...

..., as interested in exploring the exaggerations and injustices of the legend; rather, my concern is with how this characterization of a cruel imperialism was put to use as a justification for another kind of cruel expansionism. 39 Stephen Greenblatt, “Murdering Peasants: Status, Genre...

... city life far beyond the apparently nat- ural limits of the earliest regions of dense population and imperial preten- sions was a universal phenomenon of self-evidently fundamental signifi- cance. In the three millennia or so before the Common Era, cities had spread from Mesopotamia and the Nile...

... in an imperial political vocabulary. At stake in the carto- graphic rhetoric of accuracy was not a progressively more precise empiri- cism, but rather an economic and institutional power struggle pitting alleg- edly uneducated pilots against purportedly elitist cosmographers. Empirical limitations...

... in the principal development of postwar medieval text editing more generally, which is the abandonment of the notion that scholarly interventions constitute progress toward a better representation of a text, in favor of imagining them as expansions of a spatialized critical field around nodes of dissent. The essay...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 39.1 / 2009 course, wore Charlemagne’s imperial crown. However, Henry VIII could not resist, at this moment of political performance, suggesting the supe- rior antiquity of his imperial claim by taking Charles to visit the Round Table in Winchester, which had been...