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medieval worlds • no. 5 • 2017

medieval worlds 5 (2017)

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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, Editor’s Introduction
The Sudden Success of Prose – a Comparative View of Greek, Latin, Old French and Old Norse Lars Boje Mortensen
Could Isidore’s Chronicle Have Delighted Cicero? A Response Richtard W. Burgess and Michael Kulikowski
Revisiting Pre-Modern Ethnicity and Nationhood: Preface Ilya Afanasyev and Nicholas S. M. Matheou
»Becoming English«: Nationality, Terminology, and Changing Sides in the Late Middle Ages Andrea Ruddick
Reinventing Roman Ethnicity in High and Late Medieval Byzantium Yannis Stouraitis
The Characteristics of Bodies and Ethnicity c. 900-1200 Claire Weeda
Rethinking Ethnicity and ›Otherness‹ in Early Anglo-Saxon England James M. Harland
Church, Apostle and People in Early Ireland Patrick Wadden
Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Applying Digital Tools in the Analysis of Political and Social Transformations in the Historical Region of Macedonia (12th–14th Centuries) Mihailo St. Popović and Veronika Polloczek
The Bible in Historical Perception and Writing of the Transcultural Iberian Societies, Eighth to Twelfth Centuries Matthias Tischler und Patrick Marschner

The journal is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

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The Bible in Historical Perception and Writing of the Transcultural Iberian Societies, Eighth to Twelfth Centuries

    Matthias Tischler, Patrick Marschner

medieval worlds • no. 5 • 2017, pp. 195-220, 2017/06/30

medieval worlds 5 (2017)

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no5_2017s195


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Abstract

In stark contrast to the Bible‘s paramount role of being the only book declared to have »World Heritage« status by the UNESCO, research on the »Book of Books« from a transcultural perspective is an almost neglected phenomenon: Neither the Bible’s relationship to other »holy or sacred« scriptures as modes of religious and cultural perceptions and transformations of the Others’ world, nor its decisive role as a »normative order« in the many modes of religious, social and cultural interaction in the Euro-mediterranean world have been comprehensively studied from a historical perspective. Because of their pretension of normativity, the religious laws of this world (Tanach, Talmud, Bible and Qur’ān) were competing against and confronting each other with alternative models of perceiving time, space and history. The diverse concepts of the three monotheisms had consequences for their common but nevertheless specific narratives, genres and books of exegetical, polemical and historiographical practice; yet, we do not have clear-cut ideas of the processes of possible entanglement between these modes of perceiving and transforming the Others’ history; nor do we know their exact place and value in the systems of knowledge or their retroactive effects (on either side) on the interpretations of their own religious laws. Our project intends to give answers to these basic questions based on the evidence of the Christian biblical and historiographical legacy in the transcultural frontier societies of the medieval Iberian Peninsula. We thereby change the perspective on the biblical legacy of these societies: Bible manuscripts are no longer seen as testimonies of texts or text traditions alone, but as bearers of canons: theoretical and practical concepts of history and perceptions of religious alterities. We therefore re-contextualize these perceptions of »the Others’ world« within, on the one hand, the larger context of the typological thinking of preserved biblical manuscripts, their materiality and mediality; and on the other hand, in their narrative framework of the related Iberian historiographical production.

Keywords: Bible; historiography; canon; typology; identities; Iberian Peninsula; Christians, Jews and Muslims; transcultural studies