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This volume explores social practices of framing, building and enacting community in urban-rural relations across medieval Eurasia. Introducing fresh comparative perspectives on practices and visions of community, it offers a thorough source-based examination of medieval communal life in its sociocultural complexity and diversity in Central and Southeast Europe, South Arabia and Tibet. As multi-layered social phenomena, communities constantly formed, restructured and negotiated internal allegiances, while sharing a topographic living space and joint notions of belonging. The volume challenges disciplinary paradigms and proposes an interdisciplinary set of low-threshold categories and tools for cross-cultural comparison of urban and rural communities in the Global Middle Ages. Contributors are Maaike van Berkel, Hubert Feiglstorfer, Andre Gingrich, Károly Goda, Elisabeth Gruber, Johann Heiss, Kateřina Horníčková, Eirik Hovden, Christian Jahoda, Christiane Kalantari, Odile Kommer, Fabian Kümmeler, Christina Lutter, Judit Majorossy, Ermanno Orlando, and Noha Sadek.

Art History --- Medieval History

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In Sufi Women of South Asia. Veiled Friends of God , the first biographical compendium of hundred and forty-one women, from the eleventh to the twentieth century, Tahera Aftab fills a serious gap in the existing scholarship regarding the historical presence of women in Islam and brings women to the centre of the expanding literature on Sufism. The book's translated excerpts from the original Farsi and Urdu sources that were never put together create a much-needed English-language source base on Sufism and Muslim women. The book questions the spurious religious and cultural traditions that patronise gender inequalities in Muslim societies and convincingly proves that these pious women were exemplars of Islamic piety who as true spiritual masters avoided its public display.

Civilization, Modern --- History --- Medieval History

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Das 12. Jahrhundert war wie kaum eine andere Zeitspanne von äußerst intensiven Kontakten und gegenseitigem Austausch zwischen Byzanz und der lateinischen Welt in politischer, ökonomischer, kultureller und religiöser Hinsicht gekennzeichnet. Viele lateinische Pilger, Kreuzfahrer, Kaufleute, Gesandte oder Reisende durchquerten das Byzantinische Reich oder ließen sich dort nieder. Die Hauptstadt Konstantinopel hatte als politisches, religiöses und kulturelles Zentrum des Reiches eine besondere Anziehungskraft und bot mit eigenen lateinischen Vierteln, Kirchen und Klöstern viele Anlaufstellen für Personen aus dem lateinischen Europa. Individuen, die sich zwischen Byzanz und dem Westen bewegten, befanden sich nicht selten in der Rolle des interkulturellen Mittlers. Einige von ihnen traten sogar in den Dienst des byzantinischen Kaisers und arbeiteten als Übersetzer, Dolmetscher, Berater oder Gesandte am Hof. Trotz ihres neuen Lebensmittelpunktes pflegten sie weiterhin Kontakte zu Teilen der lateinischen Welt, manche arbeiteten sogar gleichzeitig für den byzantinischen Hof und für lateinische Auftraggeber. Das Buch untersucht diese Akteure, ihr Wissen, ihre besonderen Fähigkeiten, ihr Wirken und Selbstverständnis. Zudem wird der Frage nach der Integration, nachpotenziellen Konflikten sowie den Loyalitäten dieser Individuen zwischen Byzanz und dem Westen nachgegangen. Dadurch wirft die Studie ein neues Licht auf diese Personen, die als Experten der Zwischenräume agierten.

Civilization, Modern --- History --- Medieval History

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"The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is the one date forever seared on the British national psyche. It enabled the Norman Conquest that marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. But there was much more to the Normans than the invading army Duke William shipped over from Normandy to the shores of Sussex. How a band of marauding warriors established some of the most powerful kingdoms in Europe - in Sicily and France, as well as England - is an improbably romantic idea. In exploring Norman culture in all its regions, Leonie V Hicks places the Normans in the context of early medieval society. Her comparative perspective enables the Norman story to be told in full, so that the societies of Rollo, William, Robert and Roger Guiscard are given the focused attention they deserve. From Hastings to the martial exploits of Bohemond and Tancred on the First Crusade; from castles and keeps to Romanesque cathedrals; and from the founding of the Kingdom of Sicily (1130) to cross-cultural encounters with Byzantines and Muslims, this is a fresh and lively survey of one of the most popular topics in European history."--Publisher.

Normans. --- Northmen --- Europe --- History --- Medieval history

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Baghdād: From its Beginnings to the 14th Century offers an exhaustive handbook that covers all possible themes connected to the history of this urban complex in Iraq, from its origins rooted in late antique Mesopotamia up to the aftermath of the Mongol invasion in 1258. Against the common perception of a city founded 762 in a vacuum, which, after experiencing a heyday in a mythical “golden age” under the early ʿAbbāsids, entered since 900 a long period of decline that ended with a complete collapse by savage people from the East in 1258, the volume emphasizes the continuity of Baghdād’s urban life, and shows how it was marked by its destiny as caliphal seat and cultural hub. Contributors Mehmetcan Akpınar, Nuha Alshaar, Pavel Basharin, David Bennett, Michal Biran, Richard W. Bulliet, Kirill Dmitriev, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Hend Gilli-Elewy, Beatrice Gruendler, Sebastian Günther, Olof Heilo, Damien Janos, Christopher Melchert, Michael Morony, Bernard O’Kane, Klaus Oschema, Letizia Osti, Parvaneh Pourshariati, Vanessa van Renterghem, Jens Scheiner, Angela Schottenhammer, Y. Zvi Stampfer, Johannes Thomann, Isabel Toral.

History. --- Medieval History. --- Baghdad (Iraq) --- History