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D. Vance Smith, Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe. Chicago and London: University of Chicago, 2025, xii, 410 pp., 1 b/w illus.

by Thomas Farmer (Author)
3 Pages
Open Access
Journal: Mediaevistik Volume 39 Issue 1 Publication Year 2026 pp. 298 - 300

Summary

For many years medievalists focused solely on Europe – indeed, if one met a “medievalist,” one presumed that he or she studied Europe. But of course Europe was not the only region of the world during the Middle Ages, and in recent years a growing number of scholars have begun to insist that Medieval Studies should include the entire world in its remit. To this body of scholarship one may add D. Vance Smith’s Atlas’s Bones, an intriguing examination of the role which Africa played in ancient, medieval, and modern European thought.

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Pages
3
DOI
10.3726/med.2026.01.46
Open Access
CC-BY
Publication date
2026 (August)
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Thomas Farmer (Author)

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Title: D. Vance Smith, Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe. Chicago and London: University of Chicago, 2025, xii, 410 pp., 1 b/w illus.