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Multilingualism in Premodern Societies & Moving Jobs II - Volume 23. 2025

medieval worlds Volume 23. 2025

A truly sensational find is presented in volume 23 of Medieval Worlds: a newly discovered Christian world chronicle in Arabic, which Adrian C. Pirtea examines in a preliminary case study. We furthermore open a new series on "Multilingualism in Premodern Societies", which investigates patterns of communication, mobility and power in connection with language use in a Eurasian context. This first instalment focuses on "Urban Administrative Spaces" (guest editor: Katalin Szende), in which two captivating articles make use of pragmatic literacy and investigate chancery documents of the 14th-17th centuries: Lena Sadovski uses them to draw out skilfully the multilingual environment of Venetian Dalmatia. Marijana Mišević highlights in her study the potential of this hitherto underused source for studying the communication between Ragusans and Ottomans. Our cluster on "Moving Jobs: Occupational Identity and Motility in the Middle Ages" (guest editors: Annamaria Pazienza and Irene Bavuso) is continued from volume 20 (2024) with three contributions investigating how mobility could have meaningful impact on social advancement and identity formation: Joe Glynias presents a new view on the renowned 11th-century Baghdadi physician Ibn Buṭlān and his career as Christian Arabic author. The movement of peasants in 10th-century Spain as reconstructed from charters serves for Robert Portass as model to develop ideas on the mobility of local communities. Irene Bavuso combines theories of mobility and sedentism to offer new perspectives on artisans in early medieval England. A rare source on papermaking in 13th-century Baghdad was transcribed and partially translated by Shiva Mihan for a further addition to our volume on "Mongols’ Baghdad. Knowledge Transmission through Manuscript Cultures before and after the Conquest" (guest editors: Bruno de Nicola and Nadine Löhr).
Multilingualism in Premodern Societies & Moving Jobs II - Volume 23. 2025

Details

ISSN Online2412-3196
ISBN-13978-3-7001-5131-9
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-5131-9
Subject AreaMedieval Studies
Quality reviewrefereed - online
doi10.1553/medievalworlds_no23_2025
Walter Pohl, Nina Mirnig, guest editors: Katalin Szende, Annamaria Pazienza, Irene Bavuso

Multilingualism in Premodern Societies & Moving Jobs II - Volume 23. 2025 - complete volume

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no23_2025s1

Ingrid Hartl ORCID, Walter Pohl ORCID

Editorial

page 3

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no23_2025s3

Multilingualism in Premodern Societies. Urban Administrative Spaces (Guest Editor: Katalin Szende)

Pavlína Rychterová ORCID, Katalin Szende ORCID

Multilingualism in Eurasian Premodern Societies – Introductory Remarks

page 4

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no23_2025s4

Lena Sadovski ORCID

Names in Translation: Multilingual Administration and Name Adaptation in Venetian Dalmatia (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Century)

page 14

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no23_2025s14

Marijana Mišević ORCID

The Written Communication Between Ragusans and Ottomans Before the Mid-17th Century: Notes on Multilingualism and Language Ideologies

page 41

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no23_2025s41

Moving Jobs: Occupational Identity and Motility in the Middle Ages, II (Guest Editors: Annamaria Pazienza and Irene Bavuso)

Annamaria Pazienza ORCID, Irene Bavuso ORCID

Moving Jobs: Occupational Identity and Motility in the Middle Ages II – Introduction

page 68

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no23_2025s68

Irene Bavuso ORCID

Wandering Artisans? The Mobility of Smiths in Early Post-Roman England

page 73

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no23_2025s73

Robert Portass ORCID

Work and Mobility in their Local Dimensions in Early Medieval Iberia

page 97

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no23_2025s97

Joe Glynias ORCID

Ibn Buṭlān, a Physician on the Move between the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds

page 115

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no23_2025s115

The Mongol's Baghdad: Knowledge transmission through Manuscript Cultures before and after the Conquest (Guest Editors: Bruno De Nicola and Nadine Löhr)

Shiva Mihan ORCID

The Kāghaẕ-nāma: Papermaking in 13th-Century Baghdad

page 139

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no23_2025s139

Individual Article

Adrian C. Pirtea ORCID

A Hitherto Unknown Universal History of the Early Eighth Century: Preliminary Notes on the Maronite Chronicle of 713

page 155

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no23_2025s155