medieval worlds volume 2015.1

Preliminaries

Table of Contents 1

Walter Pohl – Andre Gingrich
Medieval Worlds: Introduction to the First Issue 2

Patrick Geary
The Discourse of Herrschaft as the Practice of Herrschaft in the Fifth Century 5

Robert Moore
The First Great Divergence? 16

Lars Boje Mortensen
Comparing and Connecting: the Rise of Fast Historiography in Latin and Vernacular (Twelfth to Thirteenth Century) 25

Helen Siu
Historical Anthropology: A View from “South China” 40

Ian Wood
Universal Chronicles in the Early Medieval West 47

Ann Christys
Universal Chronicles in Arabic before c. 900 61

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) 71

Michael Borgolte
Foundations “For the Salvation of the Soul” – an Exception in World History? (Foundations of Medieval Societies FOUNDMED) 86

Catherine Holmes – Naomi Standen
Defining the Global Middle Ages (AHRC Research Network) 106

Eduardo Manzano
Why Did Islamic Medieval Institutions Become So Different from Western Medieval Institutions? (Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom PIMIC) 118

Walter Pohl – Andre Gingrich
Visions of Community (VISCOM): Comparative Approaches to Ethnicity, Region and Empire in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism (400-1600 CE) 138

John Tolan
The Legal Status of Religious Minorities in the Euro-Mediterranean World (RELMIN) 148

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