Global Middle Ages with Peter Frankopan

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🗓️ 23 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

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 Euro-centric 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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0:36.8	Welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval, I'm Matt Lewis.
0:40.6	Middle Ages is a tricky term.
0:43.0	It really only applies to a Western European view of history and it was created at the beginning
0:48.9	of the early modern period in England to categorise what had gone before.
0:54.4	For most of the world, there was no middle, at least not when we think of it taking
0:58.8	place.
1:00.4	Historian Peter Frankapan, the author of Silk Roads, is the perfect person to explain to
1:06.4	us why the medieval period is so much bigger than Western Europe, where the centre of global
1:11.8	geography sat then and why our doorstep is important, but far from the whole story.
1:18.6	Thank you very much for joining us today, Peter.
1:20.5	Great.
1:21.5	Nice to be with you.
1:22.5	So I guess what we're trying to look at here is how did we get this idea of the world
1:26.0	being so Eurocentric during the medieval period?
1:30.2	So what would you call the centre of a medieval world?
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