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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. Urban Agencies: Reframing Anatolian and Caucasian Cities (13th-14th Centuries) Guest Editors: Bruno de Nicola and Matthew Kinloch Preface Matthew Kinloch and Bruno de Nicola Reframing Medieval Anatolia, Caucasia, and the Aegean: Narratives, States, and Cities Matthew Kinloch Urban Agency and the City Notables of Medieval Anatolia A. C. S. Peacock Cities and Imperial Authority in the Western Provinces of the Byzantine Empire, 12th-14th Centuries Teresa Shawcross A Conceptual Account of Market Morals that Resonated in Medieval Anatolia under Christian and Muslim Rule İklil Selçuk Merchant Capital, Taxation and Urbanisation. The City of Ani in the Global Long Thirteenth Century Nicholas S. M. Matheou Looking for Urban Agency in a City of Memorials: Tomb Towers of Late-Thirteenth-Century Ahlat Oya Pancaroğlu Urban Agency in the Borderlands: Turkmen Rulers and Administrative Elites in 13th-century Kastamonu Bruno De Nicola “These are the narratives of bygone years”: Conquest of a Fortress as a Source of Legitimacy Dimitri Korobeinikov Movement and Mobility in the Medieval Mediterranean: Changing Perspectives from Late Antiquity to the Long-Twelfth Century, II Guest Editors: Christopher Heath, Clemens Gantner and Edoardo Manarini The Sicilian Tithe Business: State and Merchants in the Eleventh-Century Islamic Mediterranean Lorenzo M. Bondioli "Eager to Go to the Desert": Ambiguous Views on Ascetic Women’s Holy Travels in Late Antiquity Andra Jugănaru Where the Long Way Ends: Descriptions of the Mediterranean Sea and Holy Land and the Criticism of Crusading at the Court of Henry II of England (1154-1189) Fabrizio de Falco Individual Articles "I am a virgin woman and a virgin woman’s child". Critical Plant Theory and the Maiden Mother Conceit in Early Medieval Riddles Alaric Hall and Shamira A. Meghani Latin and Hebrew Analogues to The Old Norse Leek Riddle Alaric Hall