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When Janet Abu-Lughod sketched the contours of a medieval 'world system' in 1989, she located most communication networks in the southern hemisphere. In recent decades, however, new trends in research and new forms of evidence have complicated, enriched, and expanded this picture, geographically and chronologically. We now know that vast portions of the world were interconnected throughout the Middle Ages and, moreover, that the entire circumpolar North was a contact zone in its own right. In this volume, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the boreal globe from the late Iron Age to the seventeenth century, offering fresh perspectives that cross the frontiers of national historiographies and presenting new research on migration, trade, mapping, cultural exchange, and the interactions of humans with their environment.

We now know that vast portions of the world were interconnected throughout the Middle Ages and, moreover, that the entire circumpolar North was a contact zone in its own right. In this volume, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the boreal globe from the late Iron Age to the seventeenth century.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Editor's Introduction to "Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe" / Lambourn, Elizabeth -- The Future of Aztec Law / Offner, Jerome A. -- Land and Tenure in Early Colonial Peru: Individualizing the Sapci, "That Which is Common to All" / Ramírez, Susan Elizabeth -- The Edict of King Gälawdéwos against the Illegal Slave Trade in Christians: Ethiopia, 1548 / Tegegne, Habtamu Mengistie -- Mutilation and the Law in Early Medieval Europe and India: A Comparative Study / Skinner, Patricia -- Common Threads: A Reappraisal of Medieval European Sumptuary Law / Wilson, Laurel Ann -- Toward a History of Documents in Medieval India: The Encounter of Scholasticism and Regional Law in the Smṛticandrikā / Davis, Donald R. -- Chinese Porcelain and the Material Taxonomies of Medieval Rabbinic Law: Encounters with Disruptive Substances in Twelfth-Century Yemen / Ackerman-Lieberman, Phillip / Lambourn, Elizabeth -- Index