🎧The Global Middle Ages with Peter Frankopan
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The term “Middle Ages” is commonly used but really only applies to a Western European view of history. It was created at the beginning of the Early Modern period in England to categorise what had gone before.
The acclaimed historian Peter Frankopan is widening the geographic focus to understand the period in world history as a whole, and counter a Eurocentric perspective that has dominated and shaped our view of the past.
In this episode of Gone Medieval, Peter Frankopan joins Matt Lewis to explore where the real centre of global geography sat then, and why life on our own doorstep is important - but far from the whole story.
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