Academics have long championed the term “globalization” for expanding Eurocentric perspectives to include a broader, better represented world. However, Bryan Keene of the J. Paul Getty Museum reveals how globalization, despite its inclusive intentions, can homogenize instead of diversify, often ignoring the painful effects of colonization, and flattening or even dismissing diversity among countries and regions. In Keene’s new and exciting edited volume Toward a Global Middle Ages, contributors instead use globalization to reveal diversity. They employ the French variant of globalization, “mondialisation”—roughly translated to “world-making strategies”—to acknowledge histories and cultures outside of Europe during the medieval period. By focusing on microhistories in Northern Africa, Indonesia, South America and beyond, Toward a Global Middle Ages demonstrates how “Europe is just a small region in a greater Afro-Eurasia … just one place in a much larger world.”