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SUMMARY:Africa in the Global Middle Ages: Connections and comparative pers
 pectives from southern Mozambique - Dr Abigail Moffett\, University of Cam
 bridge
DTSTART:20251103T180000Z
DTEND:20251103T190000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Starting in the 8th century in southern Mozambique and ending 
 in early medieval Cambridge\, this talk will explore the connections that 
 linked southern Africa to the wider world between 500-1500 CE. During this
  period the region was part of a mercantile network that expanded across t
 he Indian Ocean and large parts of Afro-Eurasia. This network facilitated 
 the movement of people\, religions\, ideas\, technologies and things over 
 vast distances. Drawing on our recent fieldwork on the Bazaruto archipelag
 o and adjacent mainland region of Inhambane\, southern Mozambique\, I will
  explore southern Africa’s role and position in these early global netwo
 rks. A comparative perspective drawn from the recent ‘global history’ 
 turn offers the potential to examine similarities and differences in the m
 aterial culture and identity of people from diverse parts of the world dur
 ing the Global Middles Ages.
LOCATION:Law Faculty\, 10 West Road\, Cambridge CB3 9DZ
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