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medieval worlds • no. 20 • 2024

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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.


In this volume S. Liccardo and S. Wabnitz provide an in-depth study of Western and Chinese sources on marriage strategies, especially levirate in the early Middle Ages, drawing on anthropological insights and providing historical context for the latest results of archaeogenetic research.

Our thematic section Moving Jobs: Occupational Identity and Motility in the Middle Ages was collected by guest editors Annamaria Pazienza and Irene Bavuso and focuses on the mobility of people in connection with their work. It offers case studies on the Southern Tarim Basin (T. Høisæter), central Greece (G. Wu), Italy (A. Pazienza) and southern Germany (W. North). A second instalment of this section will follow in December 2025.

In our second thematic section Cultural Brokers in European and Asian Contexts. Investigating a Concept guest editors Clemens Gantner and Cinzia Grifoni present contributions which explore this possible approach to agents of knowledge transfer in the context of their disciplines: K. Schaeffer in Tibetan Buddhist history, Ch. Pecchia in Colonial South Asia, C. Grifoni in early medieval Francia and C. Gantner in early medieval Italy/Byzantium. Introductions to both clusters provide methodological context and comparative insights.

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New Tools for Everyday Tasks. Otfrid and the Spread of Commented Editions of the Bible at Ninth-Century Wissembourg

    Cinzia Grifoni

medieval worlds • no. 20 • 2024, pp. 146-171, 2024/06/27

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no20_2024s146

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no20_2024s146


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doi:10.1553/medievalworlds_no20_2024s146



doi:10.1553/medievalworlds_no20_2024s146

Abstract

This contribution engages with the emergence of commented editions of the Bible in the early medieval Latin West and illustrates their spread in the Carolingian Empire on the basis of the extant manuscript evidence. It describes their codicological and exegetical features starting from a comparison with the contemporary genre of the Byzantine frame catenae. Since the completion of a remarkably high number of commented editions can be ascribed to Otfrid of Wissembourg (d. after 871), the chapter discusses whether Otfrid might be regarded as a »cultural broker« of this new tool for biblical studies. To this end, it focuses on Otfrid’s networks, interests and intended audiences, using three short poems by Walahfrid Strabo and Otfrid’s own output, in particular his commented edition on Acts, as evidence.

Keywords: manuscript studies, biblical studies, Carolingian Empire, East Francia, commented editions, Otfrid of Wissembourg, Walahfrid Strabo, Hilduin of St- Denis

Published Online: 2024/06/27 11:39:58

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