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online open access journal

Medieval Worldspeer-revieWed

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approaches to coMparison in Medieval studies Volume 1.2015doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no1_2015

Walter Pohl and Andre GinGrichMedieval Worlds: Introduction to the First IssuePatrick GeAryThe Discourse of Herrschaft as the Practice of Herrschaft in the Fifth Centuryrobert MooreThe First Great Divergence?lars Boje MortensenComparing and Connecting: the Rise of Fast Historiography in Latin and Vernacular (Twelfth to Thirteenth Century)helen siuHistorical Anthropology: A View from »South China«

coMparative papers: universal histories

ian WoodUniversal Chronicles in the Early Medieval WestAnn christysUniversal Chronicles in Arabic before c. 900

coMparative history in the Making: ongoing Major research projects

Gwen Bennet‘I Spy with my Little Eye’: GIS and Archaeological Per spectives on Eleventh Century Song Envoy Routes in the Liao Empire (Kitan-Liao Archaeological Survey and History KLASH)Michael BorGolteFoundations ‘For the Salvation of the Soul’ – an Exception in World History? (Foundations of Medieval Societies FOUNDMED)catherine holMes and naomi stAndenDefining the Global Middle Ages (AHRC Research Network) eduardo MAnzAnoWhy Did Islamic Medieval Institutions Become So Different from Western Medieval Institutions? (Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom PIMIC) Walter Pohl and Andre GinGrich Visions of Community (VISCOM): Comparative Approaches to Ethnicity, Region and Empire in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism (400-1600 CE)John tolAnThe Legal Status of Religious Minorities in the Euro-Mediterranean World (RELMIN)

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eMpires: eleMents of cohesion and signs of decay Volume 2. 2015doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no2_2015

Walter PohlEditor’s Introduction: Empires – Elements of Cohesion and Signs of DecayMayke de JonGThe Empire that was always Decaying: The Carolingians (800-888)simon MAcleAnCross-Channel Marriage and Royal Succession in the Age of Charles the Simple and Athelstan (c. 916-936)Andrew J. neWMAn‘Great Men‹, ›Decline’ and Empire: Safavid Studies and a Way Forward?

Jeroen duindAMDynastiessusan reynoldsNations, Tribes, Peoples, and StatesGlenn BoWMAnLieux Saints Partagés: An Analytical Reviewongoing research project

Johannes Preiser-KAPeller Calculating the Middle Ages? The Project ‘Complexities and Networks in the Medieval Mediterranean and Near East’ (COMMED)

open issue Volume 3.2016doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_

no3_2016

Walter PohlEditor’s Prefacedaniel KöniGCharlemagne’s ‘Jihād’ Revisited: Debating the Islamic Contribution to an Epochal Change in the History of Christianizationtsvetelin stePAnoVVenerating St. Michael the Archangel in the Holy Roman Empire and in Bulgaria – Tenth-Eleventh Centuries: Similarities, Differences, TransformationsJesse torGersonCould Isidore’s Chronicle Have Delighted Cicero? Using the Concept of Genre to Compare Ancient and Medieval Chroniclesthomas ertl and Markus MAyer Acculturation and Elimination: Europe’s Interaction with the Other (Fourteenth–Sixteenth Century)theMatic cluster: tribes, ethnicity and the nation (1)

Miriam AdAn JonesA Chosen Missionary People? Willibrord, Boniface, and the Election of the Angli

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Marieke BrAndtHeroic History, Disruptive Genealogy: al-Ḥasan al-Hamdānī and the Historical Formation of the Shākir Tribe (Wāʿilah and Dahm) in al-Jawf, Yemendan MAhoneyThe Political Agency of Kurds as an Ethnic Group in Late Medieval South Arabia

conference reportAnna FrAuscher, Jelle WAssenAAr, Veronika WieserMaking Ends Meet. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the End of Times in Medieval Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism

the genetic challenge to Medieval history and archaeology Volume 4. 2016doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no4_2016

Walter PohlEditor’s Introductionstefanie sAMidA and Jürgen FeuchterWhy Archaeologists, Historians and Geneticists Should Work Together – and Howsebastian BrAtherNew Questions Instead of Old Answers: Archaeological Expectations of aDNA Analysisstefan BurMeisterArchaeological Research on Migration as a Multidisciplinary ChallengePatrick GeAry and Krishna VeerAMAhMapping European Population Movement through Genomic ResearchManfred K. h. eGGertGenetizing Bantu: Historical Insight or Historical Trilemma?Kerstin P. hoFMAnnWith víkingr into the Identity Trap: When Historiographical Actors Get a Life of Their Ownceline WAWruschKAGenetic History and Identity: The Case of Turkey

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coMparative studies on Medieval europe Volume 5. 2017doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no5_2017

Walter PohlIntroductionlars Boje MortensenThe Sudden Success of Prose – a Comparative View of Greek, Latin, Old French and Old Norserichard W. BurGess and Michael KuliKoWsKiCould Isidore’s Chronicle Have Delighted Cicero? A ResponsetheMatic cluster: ethnicity and the nation (2)ilya AFAnAsyeV and nicholas s. M. MAtheouRevisiting Pre-Modern Ethnicity and Nationhood: PrefaceAndrea ruddicK‘Becoming English’: Nationality, Terminology, and Changing Sides in the Late Middle Agesyannis stourAitisReinventing Roman Ethnicity in High and Late Medieval Byzantiumclaire WeedAThe Characteristics of Bodies and Ethnicity c. 900-1200

James M. hArlAndRethinking Ethnicity and ‘Otherness’ in Early Anglo-Saxon EnglandPatrick WAddenChurch, Apostle and People in Early Irelandproject reports

Mihailo st. PoPoViĆ and Veronika PolloczeKDigitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Applying Digital Tools in the Analysis of Political and Social Transformations in the Historical Region of Macedonia (12th–14th Centuries)Matthias tischler and Patrick MArschnerThe Bible in Historical Perception and Writing of the Transcultural Iberian Societies, Eighth to Twelfth Centuries

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religious exeMption in pre-Modern eurasia, c. 300-1300 ce Volume 6. 2017doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no6_2017

charles WestReligious Exemption in Pre-Modern Eurasia, c. 300 – 1300 CE: Introductionr. i. MooreTreasures in Heaven: Defining the Eurasian Old Regime?Kanad sinhAEnvisioning a No-Man’s Land: Hermitage as a Site of Exemption in Ancient and Early Medieval Indian LiteratureMario PocesKiEvolving Relationship between the Buddhist Monastic Order and the Imperial States of Medieval ChinaKriston r. rennieThe Normative Character of Monastic Exemption in the Early Medieval Latin WestAnne J. duGGAnClerical Exemption in Canon Law from Gratian to the Decretalsulrich PAGelNothing to Declare: Status, Power and Religious Aspiration in the Policies of Taxation in Ancient India

Antonello PAluMBoExemption Not Granted: The Confrontation between Buddhism and the Chinese State in Late Antiquity and the ‘First Great Divergence’ Between China and Western Eurasiadominic GoodAll and Andrew WArehAMThe Political Significance of Gifts of Power in the Khmer and Mercian Kingdoms 793-926uriel siMonsohnConversion, Exemption, and Manipulation: Social Benefits and Conversion to Islam in Late Antiquity and the Middle Agesthomas Kohl, Religious Exemption, Justice, and Territories around the Year 1000: The Forgeries of Wormsrutger KrAMer, The Exemption that Proves the Rule: Autonomy and Authority between Alcuin, Theodulf and Charlemagne (802)Judith A. Green, From Symbiosis to Separate Spheres? England, 1163Julia Mcclure, Religious Exemption and Global History before 1300 – Closing Comments

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verging on the poleMical:exploring the boundaries of Medieval religious poleMic across genres and research cultures Volume 7. 2018

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no7_2018

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sita stecKelVerging on the Polemical: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach to Medieval Religious Polemicescalations and/in the different contexts of poleMical engageMents Birgit WiedlAnti-Jewish Polemics in Business Documents from Late Medieval AustriaMelanie Brunner, Good and Bad Friars: Polemical Patterns and Strategies between Franciscans in the Early Fourteenth Century Bénédicte sèreObediencia, reformatio and veritas: Ecclesiological Debates during the Western Great Schism (1378-1417)claudia dAiBer, Polemics Investigated in a Late Fifteenth-Century Fastnachtspiel (Shrovetide Play)

eMbedding and diseMbedding poleMical texts Justine troMBleyThe Text as Heretic: Mixed Genres and Polemical Techniques in a Refutation of the Mirror of Simple Soulsreima VäliMäKiTransfers of Anti-Waldensian Material from a Polemical Treatise to a Didactic Text Andra AlexiuMagistra magistrorum: Hildegard of Bingen as a Polemicist against False Teaching

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transcultural contacts and literary exchangesVolume 8. 2018doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no8_2018

Walter Pohl and ingrid hArtl Editor’s Prefacechristian høGelWorld Literature is Trans-Imperial: A Medieval and a Modern Approach

James PAlMerThe Global Eminent Life: Sixth-Century Collected Biographies from Gregory of Tours to Huijiao of Jiaxiang Temple

christian GAstGeBerThe Aristotle of Pippin III. Greek Books Sent to the Frankish Court (ca. 758 AD)

Patrick s. MArschnerBiblical Elements and the ‘Other’ in the Chronicon regum Legionensiumcourtney lucKhArdt“The messenger is the place of a man’s judgment”: Diplomacy between Emperors and Caliphs in the Tenth Century

li QiAnGThe Geopolitics on the Silk Road: Resurveying the Relationship of the Western Türks with Byzantium through Their Diplomatic Communications

project reports

carmen MeinertDynamics in Buddhist Transfer in Eastern Central Asia 6th-14th Centuries: A Project ReportMichal BirAnMobility, Empire and Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia (MONGOL)cristina d‘AnconAGreek into Arabic. Philosophical Concepts and Linguistic Bridges

christophe erisMAnnWriting the History of Aristotelian Logic During the Long Ninth CenturyMonica BrinzeiThe THESIS ProjectPavlína rychteroVáOrigins of the Vernacular Mode: Medieval Theology, Politics and Religious Identities

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Since 2015, medieval worlds provides a forum for comparative, interdiscipli-nary and transcultural studies of the Middle Ages. Its aim is to overcome disciplinary boundaries, regional lim-its and national research traditions in Medieval Studies, to open up new spaces for discussion, and to help de-veloping global perspectives. We fo-cus on the period from c. 400 to 1500 CE but do not stick to rigid periodiza-tion.medieval worlds is open to submis-sions of broadly comparative stud-ies and matters of global interest, whether in single articles, companion papers, smaller clusters, or special is-sues on a subject of global/compara-tive history. We particularly invite studies of wide-ranging connectiv-ity or comparison between different world regions. Apart from research articles, medieval worlds publishes ongoing debates and project and con-ference reports on comparative me-dieval research.

publication strategy

medieval worlds is an online open-access journal. There is no publication fee. It has a double-blind peer-review system and provides copy editing. medieval worlds is published semi-an-nually on 1 July and 1 December by the Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

submission deadlinesJuly issue Proposal: 1 October Full paper: 1 February

December issueProposal: 1 March Full paper: 1 July

medieval worlds is indexed by Crossref, DOAJ, ERIH-PLUS, EZB.ISSN: 2412-3196

profile

editorsWalter Pohl & Andre Gingrich

contactOAJ medieval worldsInstitute for Medieval Research Austrian Academy of SciencesHollandstraße 11-131020 Vienna, Austriamedievalworlds@oeaw.ac.at

websitehttp://medievalworlds.net