medieval worlds provides a new forum for interdisciplinary and transcultural studies of the Middle Ages. Specifically it encourages and links comparative research between different regions and fields and promotes methodological innovation in transdisciplinary studies. Focusing on the Middle Ages (c. 400 ‐ 1500 CE, but can be extended whenever thematically fruitful or appropriate) medieval worlds takes a global approach to studying history in a comparative setting.

Building upon studies of transcultural relations and processes of cultural hybridization between cultures, both of which have seen dynamic developments in recent years, the main approach chosen by medieval worlds is comparative. Taking such a comparative approach will not only allow researchers to highlight the global interaction within, or hybrid nature of particular cultural spheres, but also shed new light on more specific fields of interest. Moreover, medieval worlds will encourage a critical debate between the disciplines concerning approaches and methods, and thus will help to enrich the methodological frameworks of comparative history.

ISSN: 2412-3196 Online Edition

Table des matières du premier numéro :

Walter Pohl – Andre Gingrich – Medieval Worlds: Introduction to the First Issue

Patrick Geary – The Discourse of Herrschaft as the Practice of Herrschaft in the Fifth Century
Robert Moore – The First Great Divergence?
Lars Boje Mortensen – Comparing and Connecting: the Rise of Fast Historiography in Latin and Vernacular (Twelfth to Thirteenth Century)
Helen Siu – Historical Anthropology: A View from »South China«
Ian Wood – Universal Chronicles in the Early Medieval West
Ann Christys – Universal Chronicles in Arabic before c. 900 61
Gwen Bennett – »I Spy with my Little Eye«: GIS and Archaeological Perspectives on Eleventh Century Song Envoy Routes in the Liao Empire (Kitan-Liao Archaeological Survey and History KLASH)
Michael Borgolte – Foundations »For the Salvation of the Soul« – an Exception in World History? (Foundations of Medieval Societies FOUNDMED)
Catherine Holmes – Naomi Standen – Defining the Global Middle Ages (AHRC Research Network)
Eduardo Manzano – Why Did Islamic Medieval Institutions Become So Different from Western Medieval Institutions? (Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom PIMIC)
Walter Pohl – Andre Gingrich – Visions of Community (VISCOM): Comparative Approaches to Ethnicity, Region and Empire in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism (400-1600 CE)
John Tolan – The Legal Status of Religious Minorities in the Euro-Mediterranean World (RELMIN)

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