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Daud, Ali, "The idea of the medieval in the writing of South Asian history: contexts, methods and politics," Social History 39, no. 3 (2014): 382-407.

Foreword and acknowledgements / Jorge López Quiroga, Michael Kazanski, Vujadin Ivaniešević -- Interpreting identity and otherness: historical and archaeological approaches. Ethnicities, entangled identities and otherness in late antique and early medieval Europe. Views for an interdisciplinary research agenda / Jorge López Quiroga, Michael Kazanski, Vujadin Ivanišević -- The archaeology of identities and alterities. Opposite perspectives for the Early Middle Ages / Sebastian Brather -- Le refus de l'Altérité dans la loi romaine du Bréviaire d'Alaric / Michel Rouche -- Barbaria, Barbaricum and the location of the Barbarus / Michael Kulikowski -- La conversion au Christianisme comme un mécanisme d'Identité et d'Altérité chez les Barbares / Bruno Dumiézil -- Did the Goths really come from Poland? Changing interpretations in changing political situations / Jörg Kleemann -- Forensic anthropology, identification and identity. How it can help the identity and otherness problematic / Luis Ríos Frutos -- Bones don't lie. Bioarchaeological identity and entangled social identities in late antique and early medieval Europe / Jorge López Quiroga -- Ethnicity, social identity, otherness and the archaeological record: case studies. Les antiquités germaniques à l'Est européen au Bas-Empire et à l'époque des Grandes Migrations: État des recherches / Michael Kazanski, Anna Mastykova -- The many identities of the barbarians in the middle Danube Region in the early middle ages / Tivadar Vida -- Social identity on the platter, clay pans in sixth to seventh century ceramic assemblages / Florin Curta -- Ethnicity on the move, new evidence from Viking winter camps / Dawn Hadley -- Otherness and identity in the Merovingian cemetery / Guy Halsall -- Archéologie Funéraire et ethnicité en Gaule à l'́poque mérovingienne (Réponse à Guy Halsall) / Michael Kazanski, Patrick Périn -- Gender, kinship and social identity in the funerary dimensions of the Kingdom of the Lombards (568-774) / Annamaria Pazienza

"This book presents, in twenty international papers, the origins and development, and some of the main characteristics and diversities, of the academic discipline of medieval - and later - archaeology in a number of countries in northern Europe. Denmark is the main focus, together with the four other Scandinavian countries, the Faroes and Greenland. The book also provides an insight into some of the discipline's major achievements and fascinating discoveries in these parts of the world, as well as into some of the current research agendas, with their new perspectives, including developments towards the inclusion of the archaeology of more recent periods. The book is based on the proceedings of a conference held to celebrate 40 years of medieval archaeology as a university discipline in Denmark - one of the first countries to have a chair of medieval archaeology, established at Aarhus University, in 1971

This paper aims to give a face to the 'globalization paradigm' at work in some global histories and to recognize similarities between this meta-narrative coordination of space and time, and older meta-narratives of the world. Narrating the space and time of the world in order to understand and represent its coherent meaning is not a new phenomenon. This paper looks to medieval history to show that despite claims that the history of globalization is unique to modernity, the meta-narrative is familiar to narrations of the space and time of the world produced in the Middle Ages, before the supposed advent of globalization. The aim is to challenge the assumption that the globalization paradigm is a modern phenomenon, since this assumption conceals links to old historiographies and epistemologies. It suggests that medieval history can offer a critical reflection on existing global histories as well as opening up new directions for the future of the field. In addition to questioning the 'modernity' of the globalization paradigm medieval history acts as a reminder of the historically constructed nature of global concepts and the need to think about the 'globe' as a diversely narrated and constructed subject rather than a singular-empirical object. The paper looks to the European Middle Ages to reflect on the politics of conceptualisations and historicisations of the 'globe', and to show that pluralities are not only produced beyond Europe but within it, and this is a tactical-historiographical move to break away from the contours of pre-existing critiques from the fields of postcolonial and Latin American studies.

As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world. Democracy in Modern Europe surveys the conceptual history of democracy in modern Europe, from the Industrial Revolutions of the nineteenth century through both world wars and the rise of welfare states to the present era of the European Union. Exploring individual countries as well as regional dynamics, this volume comprises a tightly organized, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date exploration of a foundational issue in European political and intellectual history