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"Follow along as the Vikings arrive in North America, Normans invade Britain, and Genghis Khan sweeps through Asia. Engaging illustrations, maps, and a continuous timeline detail important events, achievements, and cultures from 476 CE to 1500."--Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note: Topographies of power: introduction1 -- Chiris Wickham -- Cemeteries as places of power9 -- Heinrich Harke -- Topography and the creation of public space in early -- mtedieval Constantinople31 -- Leslie Brubaker -- Topography, celebration, and power: the making of a -- papal Rome in the eighth and ninth centuries45 -- Thomas F.X. Noble -- Monuments and memory: -- repossessing ancient remains in early medieval Gaul93 -- Bonnie Effros -- Cordoba in the Vita vel passio Argenteae119 -- Ann Christys -- Topographies of holy power in sixth-century Gaul137 -- Ian Wood -- Maastricht as a centre of power in the early Middle Ages155 -- Frans Theuws -- Aachen as a place of power217 -- Janet L. Nelson -- Convents, violence, and competition for power in -- seventh-century Francia243 -- Regine Le Jan -- One site, many meanings: Saint-Maurice d'Agaune as a -- place of power in the early Middle Ages271 -- Barbara H. Rosenwein -- Monastic prisoners or opting out? Political coercion and -- honour in the Frankish kingdoms291 -- Mayke de Jong -- Monasteries in a peripheral area: seventh-century Gallaecia329 -- Pablo C. Diaz -- Aedificatio sancti loci: the making of a ninth-century -- holy place361 -- Julia M.H. Smith -- People, places and power in Carolingian society397 -- Matthew Innes -- The regia and the hring - barbarian places of power439 -- Walter Pohl -- Asgard reconstructed? Gudme - a 'central place' in -- the North467 -- Lotte Hedeager -- The lower Vistula area as a 'region of power' and -- its continental contacts509 -- Przemyslaw Urbarczyk -- Topographies of Power: Some conclusions533 -- Mayke de Jong and Frans Theuws -- Primary sources547 -- Literature554 -- Index597

This companion introduces the connections between early medieval societies that have previously been studied in isolation. By bringing together nineteen experts on different regions across the globe, from Oceania to Europe and beyond, it transcends conventional disciplinary boundaries and synthesizes parallel historiographical narratives.[-][-]The period 600-900 CE witnessed important historical developments, such as the establishment of a Southeast Asian thalassocracy by the Shailendra dynasty and the expansion of the Frankish polity under Charlemagne on the far ends of Eurasia and the consolidation of the Abbasid and Tang empires in between. *A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages* integrates these contemporaneous processes and presents new insights into a neglected phase of world history

The Middle Ages, and ideas about modern culture drawn from or rooted in the medieval period, have found themselves recurring with alarming frequency within recent political discourse. From President Bush's crusade rhetoric surrounding the War on Terror to the Far Right's location of White nationalism within an ongoing framework of medieval nation‐founding, the past has increasingly been used in the service of the present. In their more egregious forms—such as the rise of White supremacist movements in Europe, the USA, and Australia and their amalgamation into mainstream political discourse—the use of medieval national and cultural memories has led to a whitewashing of the medieval past. This article argues that these instances of medievalism are not simply inaccuracies but come about through a recirculation of vague ideas about the Middle Ages through online in‐groups. Consequently, such political uses of the medieval past are often what have been termed "banal" medievalisms in the sense that they are not always intended as deliberate references to history by useful appropriations in the service of the present.