medieval worlds ‒ comparative and interdisciplinary studies, No. 1/2015

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.
MEDIEVAL WORLDS is open to regular submissions on comparative topics, but also offers the possibility to propose or advertise subjects that lend themselves to comparison. With a view to connecting people working on related topics in different academic environments, we publish calls for matching articles and for contributions on particular issues.

Table of Contents

– 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

– Gwen Bennet : “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)