Connecting Worlds, Connecting Narratives: Global History, Periodisation and the Year 751 CE
Otávio Luiz Vieira Pinto
The objective of this article is to propose a historiographical exercise through Global History approach, more precisely, Connected History, trying understand aspects pre-modern chronology from different perspective regarding geographical limits and Eurocentric traditions. Starting the Battle Talas, famous for putting Arabs Chinese against each other, I will establish connective narrative between East West, highlighting how year 751 CE paradigmatic formation frontiers patterns political interaction. In order demonstrate such pattern, analyse presence ʾAbbāsids Tang in Central Asia, crowning Pippin Short Europe, destruction Exarchate Ravenna Byzantine Iconoclasm. hope demonstrates synchronicity global connections can be viable historical allowing us relocate periodisation beyond its roots. This chronological/geographical shift has potential unravel wider, richer, better-connected narratives interpretations on subjects, breaking with traditional normalisation Europe as ruler measure define periods, especially Middle Ages.
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