medieval worlds • no. 16 • 2022
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medieval worlds • no. 16 • 2022 ISSN 2412-3196 Online Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-9289-3 Online Edition 2022 Indexed by: ERIH-PLUS, Crossref, DOAJ, EZB
Bernard Gowers
S. 263 - 283 doi:10.1553/medievalworlds_no16_2022s263 Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften doi:10.1553/medievalworlds_no16_2022s263
Abstract: This paper argues for the utility of the concept of creolization in relation to Latin Europe during the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. It further suggests that it offers possibilities for exploring other medieval societies, including making global comparisons. The paper draws on linguistics, early modern Atlantic history, and Roman archaeology, to offer an ideal type of medieval creolization. Creolization in this instance is understood to involve social and cultural processes, not merely linguistic phenomenon. In this sense, creolization mixes “superstrate” and “substrate” practices, acknowledging disparities of power and allowing for the dispersal of agency. This avoids problems inherent in notions of Europeanization, especially teleology, and a dichotomy between active core and passive periphery. Creolization offers a frame for asking why in specific circumstances some “superstrate” practices were adopted, but not others, and why we see such a variety of polities and cultures around Latin Europe in this period, with the self-conscious cultivation of distinctiveness, alongside the adaptation of common “superstrate” practices. These insights are applied to brief sketches from the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries of Scottish politics and Polish salt mining. Discussion is then extended to non-Latin European cases and possibilities for global comparisons. Keywords: creolization, Europeanization Published Online: 2022/06/30 06:44:40 Object Identifier: 0xc1aa5572 0x003d8955 Rights: .
medieval worlds provides a forum for comparative, interdisciplinary and transcultural studies of the Middle Ages. Its aim is to overcome disciplinary boundaries, regional limits and national research traditions in Medieval Studies, to open up new spaces for discussion, and to help developing global perspectives. We focus on the period from c. 400 to 1500 CE but do not stick to rigid periodization.
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