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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2024  License: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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


medieval worlds • no. 20 • 2024




ISSN 2412-3196
Online Edition

ISBN 978-3-7001-9704-1
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2024  License: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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Clemens Gantner, Pavlína Rychterová
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doi:10.1553/medievalworlds_no20_2024s96

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The four essays introduced in this cluster represent one of the results of transdisciplinary discussions within the thematic platform »Global Eurasia – Comparison and Connectivity« at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. They resulted from comparative discussions on the concept of cultural brokerage, designed to name, describe and understand the phenomena of intercultural and transcultural exchange. In this introduction, interdisciplinary foundations of the concept of cultural broker are related to relevant contributions within medieval studies. Within it, the role model function of Christian missionaries with regard to the cultural and social-historical concept of the cultural broker is discussed, and the attributes associated with the concept of the cultural broker in the research discourse are defined, using the examples of early medieval Christian missionaries. The Vita of St Adalbert (d. 997), written at the beginning of the 11th century by Bruno von Querfurt, serves as an example. With its help, different contemporaneous attitudes towards cultural mediation in the given time and space are defined. The summary of the individual contributions in the thematic section concludes this introductory chapter.

Keywords:  Middle Ages, cultural mediation, missionary narratives, language learning
Published Online:  2024/06/27 11:36:38
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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
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
A-1011 Wien, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
Tel. +43-1-515 81/DW 3420, Fax +43-1-515 81/DW 3400
https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at, e-mail: verlag@oeaw.ac.at