Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte
The open-access series offers a forum for double-blind peer-reviewed, thematically focussed anthologies and selected conference proceedings, as well as monographs on topics from the field of medieval studies. As such it complements the journal Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung, published by the Mediävistenverband (Association of Medieval Studies) and aims at covering all the different disciplines represented by the association. The scope thus ranges from the study of history and theology, Byzantine and Latin studies, to mod-ern language philologies. Each volume aims at overcoming the traditional borders between the different disciplines and national traditions. Selection criteria for publication in the series are scholarly relevance, methodological solidity, and an innovative approach. In order to increase international impact and visibility, texts can be either in German or English.
Series Editors
- Ingrid Baumgärtner, Universität Kassel
- Stephan Conermann, Universität Bonn
- Thomas Honegger, Universität Jena
Contact
E-Mail: ibaum@uni-kassel.de
Advisory Board
consisting of the members of the Advisory Board of the Mediävistenverband:
- Andrea Sieber, Passau
- Ingrid Baumgärtner, Kassel
- Miriam Salzmann, Mainz
- Karoline Döring, Salzburg
- Eva von Contzen, Freiburg i.Br.
- Natascha Mehler, Tübingen
- Michael Grünbart, Münster
- Gabriel Viehhauser, Stuttgart
- Julia Zimmermann, Graz
- Philippe Depreux, Hamburg
- Christoph Mauntel, Tübingen
- Karl-Heinz Leven, Erlangen
- Christine Magin, Greifswald
- Albrecht Fuess, Marburg
- Katrin Kogman-Appel, Münster
- Juliane von Fircks, Jena
- Bernd Roling, Berlin
- Irene Holzer, München
- Isabelle Mandrella, München
- Stephan Dusil, Tübingen
- Susanne A. Friede, Bochum
- Roland Scheel, Münster
- Jonathan Reinert, Reutlingen
Das Mittelalter. Beihefte. Notes for authors and volume editors
Published so far
Stadtgeschichte(n): Stadt und Kultur in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit
The title 'Medieval urban history/stories' evokes the dual meaning of the word as an event and as a narrative. On the one hand, it is about the event itself, and on the other, about what is reported and narrated about this event, i.e. urban historiography and the literature produced in the city. This anthology brings together contributions that examine the representation of the city in literature, art and historiography as well as a specifically urban culture in the Middle Ages and early modern period. To this end, sources are selected from the extensive corpus in which topography and institutions, buildings and inhabitants are explicitly addressed and become the subject of narration, praise and historical representation. The aim is to combine older approaches to social history with more recent ones, such as imagological approaches.
To Jerusalem and Beyond: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Latin Travel Literature, c.1200-1500
With the expansion of trading routes, pilgrimage, and missionary endeavours in the 13th century, Latin travel literature emerged as a distinctive genre like never before. To highlight the importance of this genre, this volume outlines and explores current and future research trajectories with a focus on Latin travel literature from c. 1200–1500. Combining digital, codicological, literary, philological, and anthropological approaches the volume analyses the ways in which these texts were produced, distributed, received, read, and how they can be interpreted. It argues for the importance of re-evaluating these texts and revisiting their contents in light of new methodological and theoretical approaches.
The Past Through Narratology: New Approaches to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
„The Past through Narratology“ proposes a fresh approach to various types of texts from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Starting from a broad definition of what a text can be – ranging from hagiographic narratives and maps to archaeological remains – this book proposes narrativity and narratology as frameworks for exploring sources and exchanging opinions. The various contributions in this volume investigate how late antique and early medieval authors and movements used narrative as a vehicle for their ideas and how they operated in literarised spaces. At the same time, this book also examines how we as researchers construct narratives about our periods of study.
Agonale Invektivität: Konstellationen und Dynamiken der Herabsetzung im italienischen und deutschen Humanismus
What does humanism mean, who is a humanist? Contemporaries clarified this not least through diatribes. Intellectuals who, since the middle of the fourteenth century, have regarded rhetoric as the most noble method of promoting virtue, searching for truth and knowledge of God, saw mutual personal degradation as the means of asserting their positions.
