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


medieval worlds • no. 20 • 2024




ISSN 2412-3196
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ISBN 978-3-7001-9704-1
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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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medieval worlds • no. 20 • 2024




ISSN 2412-3196
Online Edition

ISBN 978-3-7001-9704-1
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This article is concerned with peasants’ ideas and outlooks, the conflicts in which they participated, the decisions that they made, and the individual and collective actions that they took, including decisions about emigrating or staying put in view of certain political or climatic/ environmental constraints. Its target region is Italy between the sixth and the tenth centuries. The investigation is based on written and archaeological evidence. The first part of the paper attempts to illustrate the living conditions, the social stratifications and the technological knowledge of peasantries and discusses the nature of village societies by looking at peasant initiatives in terms of both collective action against the lord of the moment and individual careerism as a way to climb the social ladder. The second part of the paper accounts for larger repopulation/depopulation processes, on the one hand, and individual regional and micro-mobility, on the other. It shows how the peasantry was an actual political player in that they negotiated their displacements and mobilizations with the neighbouring lordly powers. Contextually, the possibility that environmental and climatic hazards might have acted as undercurrent forces of far-reaching rural migrations is taken into account. Finally, it sheds some light on peasants »on the road« and the reasons behind their mobility, ranging from everyday affairs – sometimes even not related to farming – to their desire to leave in search of their fortune. There emerges a picture of a rural Italy that was anything but static and immutable, where farmers formed a not-negligible factor of change in settlement patterns and power dynamics.

Keywords:  early medieval Italy, peasantry, landholding, solidarity, migration, mobility, farming, additional income
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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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Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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A-1011 Wien, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
Tel. +43-1-515 81/DW 3420, Fax +43-1-515 81/DW 3400
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