The last decades have seen considerable changes with regard to our globalizing world which challenge academic education and scholarly research in various disciplines. Among these scholarly challenges, interreligious encounters, transcultural exchanges and entangled histories are most prominent.
The new Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies will provide a forum for scholarship of pre-modern times. It publishes comparative studies, which systematically reflect the entanglement and the interconnection of European, African, Asian and American cultures. The Journal will pursue an interdisciplinary approach. It also intends to foster methodological reflections on transculturality in the broad sense.
Each issue of the Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies will comprise three sections: 1) Articles, either miscellaneous or in thematic panels, 2) Reviews of recent publications in the field, committed to detailed and constructive criticism, 3) News, offering an up-to-date forum for the most recent activities in transcultural research (institutions, projects, networks, conferences, workshops).
Editorial
Matthias M. Tischler Academic Challenges in a Changing World 1
Papers
Sonja Brentjes, Alexander Fidora, Matthias M. Tischler Towards a New Approach to Medieval Cross-Cultural Exchanges 9
Marco Di Branco, Kordula Wolf Hindered Passages. The Failed Muslim Conquest of Southern Italy 51
Kristin Skottki Of ‘Pious Traitors’ and Dangerous Encounters. Historiographical Notions of Interculturality in the Principality of Antioch 75
Mònica Colominas Aparicio Disputes about Purity in Late Medieval Iberia. Interreligious Contacts and the Polemical Language of the Mudejars 117
Reviews
Michael Borgolte/Matthias M. Tischler (ed.). Transkulturelle Verflechtungen im mittelalterlichen Jahrtausend. Europa, Ostasien und Afrika, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2012. (Knut Martin Stünkel) 143
Wiebke Deimann. Christen, Juden und Muslime im mittelalterlichen Sevilla. Religiöse Minderheiten unter muslimischer und christlicher Dominanz (12. bis 14. Jahrhundert) (Geschichte und Kultur der Iberischen Welt 9), Münster in Westfalen: Lit, 2012. (Alexander Schatten) 145
Michelina Di Cesare. The pseudo-historical image of the prophet Muḥammad in medieval Latin literature. A repertory (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients. N. F. 26), Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2012. (Ulisse Cecini) 147
Karen L. Fresco/Charles D. Wright (ed.). Translating the Middle Ages, Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate 2012. (Knut Martin Stünkel) 149
Reinhold F. Glei (ed.). Frühe Koranübersetzungen. Europäische und außereuropäische Fallstudien (BAC – Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium 88), Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2012. (Raphaela Veit) 152
Sarah Lambert/Helen Nicholson (ed.). Languages of love and hate. Conflict, communication, and identity in the Medieval Mediterranean (International Medieval Research 15), Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. (Kristina Göthling) 156
News
Project
Michael Borgolte Foundations in Medieval Societies. Cross-cultural Comparisons. A Project of the European Research Council at the Humboldt University of Berlin 161
Network
Britta Müller-Schauenburg Transcultural Entanglements in the Medieval Euromediterranean (500–1500) 167