TY  - JOUR
AU  - Thomas Farmer
PY  - 2026
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Mediaevistik
IS  - 1
VL  - 39
SN  - 2199-806X
TI  - 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.
DO  - 10.3726/med.2026.01.46
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1748943
N2  - 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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