Editor’s Preface

Abstract

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. Editor’s Preface Walter Pohl and Ingrid Hartl World Literature is Trans-Imperial: A Medieval and a Modern Approach Christian Høgel The Global Eminent Life: Sixth-Century Collected Biographies from Gregory of Tours to Huijiao of Jiaxiang Temple James T. Palmer The Aristotle of Pippin III. Greek Books Sent to the Frankish Court (ca. 758 AD) Christian Gastgeber Biblical Elements and the ‘Other’ in the Chronicon regum Legionensium Patrick S. Marschner “The messenger is the place of a man’s judgment”: Diplomacy between Emperors and Caliphs in the Tenth Century Courtney Luckhardt The Geopolitics on the Silk Road: Resurveying the Relationship of the Western Türks with Byzantium through Their Diplomatic Communications Li Qiang and Stefanos Kordosis Project Reports Dynamics in Buddhist Transfer in Eastern Central Asia 6th-14th Centuries: A Project Report BuddhistRoad Team Mobility, Empire and Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia (MONGOL) Michal Biran Greek into Arabic. Philosophical Concepts and Linguistic Bridges Cristina D’Ancona, Gerhard Endress and Andrea Bozzi Writing the History of Aristotelian Logic During the Long Ninth Century. Some Remarks and Preliminary Results Christophe Erismann The THESIS Project Monica Brinzei Origins of the Vernacular Mode: Medieval Theology, Politics and Religious Identities Pavlína Rychterová