medieval worlds provides a forum for comparative, interdisciplinary and transcultural studies of the Middle Ages. Its aim is to overcome disciplinary boundaries, regional limits and national research traditions in Medieval Studies, to open up new spaces for discussion, and to help developing global perspectives. We focus on the period from c. 400 to 1500 CE but do not stick to rigid periodization.
medieval worlds is open to submissions of broadly comparative studies and matters of global interest, whether in single articles, companion papers, smaller clusters, or special issues on a subject of global/comparative history. We particularly invite studies of wide-ranging connectivity or comparison between different world regions.
Apart from research articles, medieval worlds publishes ongoing debates and project and conference reports on comparative medieval research.


Rethinking Scholastic Communities in Medieval Eurasia
Guest Editors: Pascale Hugon and Birgit Kellner

Rethinking Scholastic Communities in Medieval Eurasia: Introduction
Pascale Hugon and Birgit Kellner

Rethinking Scholastic Communities in Latin Europe:
Competition and Theological Method in the Twelfth Century
Constant J. Mews

Rethinking Buddhist Scholastic Communities Through a Socio-Historical Lens
José Ignacio Cabezón

Myang ral Nyi ma ’od zer (1124-1192):
Authority and Authorship in the Coalescing of the rNying ma Tantric Tradition
Cathy Cantwell

Between disputatio and Polemics: Dialectics as Production of Knowledge in the Middle Ages
Bénédicte Sère

The Tibetan Institutionalisation of Disputation: Understanding a Medieval Monastic Practice
Jonathan Samuels

Ideologies of Translation, II

Hostili praedo ditetur lingua latina: Conceptual Narratives of Translation in the Latin Middle Ages
Réka Forrai

Multilingual Sermons
Guest Editor: Jan Odstrčilík

Multilingual Medieval Sermons: Sources, Theories and Methods
Jan Odstrčilík

Multilingual Texts as a Reflection of Code-Switching in Medieval England: Sermons and Beyond
Herbert Schendl

Orality in its Written Traces: Bilingual reportationes of Sermons in France (Thirteenth Century)
Nicole Bériou

Bilingualism in Medieval Italian Preaching: The Case of Angelo da Porta Sole (d. 1334)
Carlo Delcorno

Bilingual Strategies in Fourteenth-Century Latin Sermons from Catalonia
Lidia Negoi

Typology and Spectrum of Latin-Irish and Latin-English Codeswitches
in Medieval Sermon Literature
Tom ter Horst

Review Article

Review Article: How Far is Global?
Roy Flechner

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