Medieval Worlds

Unlike today, the medieval world was not yet globally connected. It was shaped by numerous worlds scattered throughout the globe like islands, from America to China, in the Norwegian Sea and the Pacific Ocean, and concentrated to varying degrees in Europe and Africa. But differently to life in medial world these islands were not at all isolated but intervowen very intensly by numerous economic, cultural, and religious connection. With great attention to scholarship, Michael Borgolte's book unfurls a panorama of these medieval worlds and links them together into a global history that has never been written in this way before.