Could Isidore’s Chronicle Have Delighted Cicero? A Response

Abstract

MEDIEVAL WORLDS provides a new forum for interdisciplinary and transcultural studies of the Middle Ages. Specifically it encourages and links comparative research between different regions and fields and promotes methodological innovation in transdisciplinary studies. Focusing on the Middle Ages (c. 400-1500 CE, but can be extended whenever thematically fruitful or appropriate), MEDIEVAL WORLDS takes a global approach to studying history in a comparative setting. MEDIEVAL WORLDS is open to regular submissions on comparative topics, but also offers the possibility to propose or advertise subjects that lend themselves to comparison. With a view to connecting people working on related topics in different academic environments, we publish calls for matching articles and for contributions on particular issues. Table of Contents Walter POHL, Editor’s Introduction The Sudden Success of Prose – a Comparative View of Greek, Latin, Old French and Old Norse Lars Boje Mortensen Could Isidore’s Chronicle Have Delighted Cicero? A Response Richtard W. Burgess and Michael Kulikowski Revisiting Pre-Modern Ethnicity and Nationhood: Preface Ilya Afanasyev and Nicholas S. M. Matheou »Becoming English«: Nationality, Terminology, and Changing Sides in the Late Middle Ages Andrea Ruddick Reinventing Roman Ethnicity in High and Late Medieval Byzantium Yannis Stouraitis The Characteristics of Bodies and Ethnicity c. 900-1200 Claire Weeda Rethinking Ethnicity and ›Otherness‹ in Early Anglo-Saxon England James M. Harland Church, Apostle and People in Early Ireland Patrick Wadden Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Applying Digital Tools in the Analysis of Political and Social Transformations in the Historical Region of Macedonia (12th–14th Centuries) Mihailo St. Popović and Veronika Polloczek The Bible in Historical Perception and Writing of the Transcultural Iberian Societies, Eighth to Twelfth Centuries Matthias Tischler und Patrick Marschner The journal is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).