• Walter POHL – Andre GINGRICH (Eds.) - Annamaria Pazienza - Irene Bavuso - Clemens Gantner - Cinzia Grifoni (Guest Eds.)

medieval worlds • no. 20 • 2024

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In this volume S. Liccardo and S. Wabnitz provide an in-depth study of Western and Chinese sources on marriage strategies, especially levirate in the early Middle Ages, drawing on anthropological insights and providing historical context for the latest results of archaeogenetic research.

Our thematic section Moving Jobs: Occupational Identity and Motility in the Middle Ages was collected by guest editors Annamaria Pazienza and Irene Bavuso and focuses on the mobility of people in connection with their work. It offers case studies on the Southern Tarim Basin (T. Høisæter), central Greece (G. Wu), Italy (A. Pazienza) and southern Germany (W. North). A second instalment of this section will follow in December 2025.

In our second thematic section Cultural Brokers in European and Asian Contexts. Investigating a Concept guest editors Clemens Gantner and Cinzia Grifoni present contributions which explore this possible approach to agents of knowledge transfer in the context of their disciplines: K. Schaeffer in Tibetan Buddhist history, Ch. Pecchia in Colonial South Asia, C. Grifoni in early medieval Francia and C. Gantner in early medieval Italy/Byzantium. Introductions to both clusters provide methodological context and comparative insights.


"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.

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

    Annamaria Pazienza, Irene Bavuso

medieval worlds • no. 20 • 2024, pp. 3-16, 2024/06/27

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no20_2024s3

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doi:10.1553/medievalworlds_no20_2024s3

Abstract

The present thematic section investigates the movement of people in connection with their work during the Early Middle Ages, and the repercussions of such movement in terms of construction of job identities. The development of specific professional identities and groups of professionals, such as guilds, has been amply studied for later periods in Europe. By contrast, although the picture of an immobile early medieval world has now been overcome, why and how people moved for their job in the early medieval centuries remains a largely underexplored topic. This project aims to take forward the discussion on this theme, and it does so through a reflection on the concept of motility – that is, the entirety of those factors that allow an individual to move through space – and on recent developments in the social sciences. Central questions concern the role of job mobility (considered in individual, relational, and collective terms) in the functioning of economic circuits and of social, cultural and military practices; the role of labour and one’s profession in individual identity construction; and how mobility interacts with the latter. The perspective of the thematic section is an interdisciplinary and global one, with contributions reaching from the North Sea to India and the Southern Tarim Basin and including research on military and ecclesiastical elites, artisans, artists, peasants, merchants and scholars. The contributions are collected in the present volume and in volume 23, to be published in 2025.

Keywords: mobility, motility, job identity, pre-modern societies, Europe, Asia, Mediterranean world

Published Online: 2024/06/27 11:30:24

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