Toward a Global Middle Ages : The J. Paul Getty Museum : 9781606065983 : 160606598X : 30 Aug 2019 : This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books&;like today&;s museums&;preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone&;s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity.   Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume&;s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, a