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alusur-12963	Davis-Secord, Sarah	Globalizing the Medieval: A Methodology 	2024	8	.pdf	application/pdf	2658	114	50	But what if we approached the “global Middle Ages” as a method rather than a claim?1 How could “globalizing” our study and teaching about the pre-1500 past change not only the words we use to describe that past, but also our understanding of the meanings of it, particularly regarding the ways in which distant regions, cultures, and peoples were linked to each other?2 A globalized system is not simply one in which some societies participate in important linkages across distances, but one in which the connected regions are inextricable from each other and from the system itself.3 Such interdependence could take many shapes, but I think that multidirectionality is an important hallmark of globalized connections: we cannot only think about global connections as a conduit for goods, people, or ideas from 1. To do global work in pre-1500 centuries well, I think we must do it carefully.	cache/alusur-12963.pdf	txt/alusur-12963.txt