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medieval worlds • no. 20 • 2024

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"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.


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.

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Forms of Mobility in the Southern Tarim Basin in the 7th to 10th Centuries

    Tomas Larsen Høisæter

medieval worlds • no. 20 • 2024, pp. 17-36, 2024/06/27

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no20_2024s17

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no20_2024s17


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doi:10.1553/medievalworlds_no20_2024s17



doi:10.1553/medievalworlds_no20_2024s17

Abstract

The written records excavated from sites in the southern Tarim Basin in modern Xinjiang, China, bear witness to a wide range of actors moving for an equally varied range of reasons. Envoys and emissaries moved between the kingdoms and empires, bearing gifts and news between the royal courts. Buddhist monks traversed the same routes on journeys of pilgrimage, while merchants of many different backgrounds carried their commodities between the different oases. Yet all these forms of regional and interregional mobility formed but the tip of an iceberg, with local forms of mobility across rather short distances accounting for the majority of movement. Here we see officials moving tax around the kingdoms, local farmers heading to the court with their grievances, and slaves being bought and sold, to name but a few forms of local movement. This contribution seeks to explore this great variety of mobility seen in the unusually rich written sources from the southern Tarim Basin. The study will mainly focus on the Khotanese documents from sites that were once part of the kingdom of Khotan, especially Domoko and Mazar Tagh, as well as from Dunhuang in the eastern Tarim Basin. These will be supplemented by documents in other languages from these same sites. On this basis, the contribution will explore the various forms of mobility in the Southern Tarim Basin in the 7th-10th centuries CE and focus on the question of how and why people travelled. In order to do this, it will investigate four reasons for movement: administrative, commercial, religious, and diplomatic. It will furthermore discuss how these types of mobility should be understood in relation to each other, arguing that regional and transregional movement necessarily depended upon more local forms of mobility.

Keywords: Inner Asian history, the Silk Road, the kingdom of Khotan, southern Tarim Basin, Dunhuang manuscripts

Published Online: 2024/06/27 11:31:57

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