Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000-1600)

Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46577-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1091 g

This volume explores social practices of framing, building and enacting community in urban-rural relations across medieval Eurasia. Introducing fresh comparative perspectives on practices and visions of community, it offers a thorough source-based examination of medieval communal life in its sociocultural complexity and diversity in Central and Southeast Europe, South Arabia and Tibet. As multi-layered social phenomena, communities constantly formed, restructured and negotiated internal allegiances, while sharing a topographic living space and joint notions of belonging. The volume challenges disciplinary paradigms and proposes an interdisciplinary set of low-threshold categories and tools for cross-cultural comparison of urban and rural communities in the Global Middle Ages.

Contributors are Maaike van Berkel, Hubert Feiglstorfer, Andre Gingrich, Károly Goda, Elisabeth Gruber, Johann Heiss, Katerina Hornícková, Eirik Hovden, Christian Jahoda, Christiane Kalantari, Odile Kommer, Fabian Kümmeler, Christina Lutter, Judit Majorossy, Ermanno Orlando, and Noha Sadek.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kümmeler, Fabian

Majorossy, Judit

Hovden, Eirik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

1 Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia: Introduction and Practical Approaches

Elisabeth Gruber and Fabian Kümmeler

PART 1: Practising Community in Urban and Rural Spaces

2 Symbols, Signs and Acts of Social Cohesion in the Austrian Danube Region

Elisabeth Gruber

3 Legal, Spatial and Ritual Practices and Visions of Community in Late Medieval Venice: Comparative Perspectives

Ermanno Orlando

4 Balancing a Community’s Food and Water Supply: The Social Impact of Rural-Urban Interdependences in Korcula (Dalmatia) and Sa'da (Yemen)

Fabian Kümmeler and Johann Heiss

5 Conceptualizing City-Hinterland Relations and Governance: Medieval Sanaa as a Case Study

Eirik Hovden, Johann Heiss and Odile Kommer

PART 2: Representing Community through Public Buildings and Performative Culture

6 Public Buildings and/as Symbolic Framing of Urban-cum-Rural Communal Practice in Western Tibet

Christian Jahoda

7 Material Culture in the Western Himalayas: Mandalic Settlement Patterns and Material Components of the Ritual Space

Hubert Feiglstorfer

8 Image Construction and Community Building in the Spiritual Career of the Buddha in Western Tibet from the Eleventh–Thirteenth Century

Christiane Kalantari

9 Visualising Communities: The Canonry of Trebon (Southern Bohemia)

Katerina Hornícková

10 The Monuments of Rasulid Ta'izz: The Physical Construction of Power and Piety

Noha Sadek

PART 3: Practising Community – Forms of Integration and Differentiation

11 Defining Rules of Rural-Urban Flows: Endowments, Authority and Law in Medieval Zaydi Yemen in a Comparative Perspective

Eirik Hovden

12 Constructing Communal Memory through Donations in Medieval East-Central Europe

Judit Majorossy

13 Notes on Foundations and Endowments in Historical Western Tibet (Late Tenth–Fifteenth Century)

Christian Jahoda

14 Binding the Bonds: Metropolitan Modes of Eucharistic Confraternal and Processional Life in Late Medieval East-Central Europe

Károly Goda

15 “To Extol Knowledge”: Celebrating the Completion of Books in Rasulid Yemen

Johann Heiss

16 Building Community with Processions and Endowments

Maaike van Berkel

PART 4: Conclusions

17 Urban Patterns of Belonging by Comparison: Assessing a Work in Progress

Christina Lutter

18 Nodal Conglomerates and Their Visions: Comparative Reflections on Urban-Rural Settings across Asia and Europe (1000–1600 CE)

Andre Gingrich

Bibliography

Index of Geographical Names

Index of Persons

Über Autor(innen)

Fabian Kümmeler, Ph.D. (2018), is APART-GSK Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies. His latest monograph is entitled Korcula: Ländliche Lebenswelten und Gemeinschaften im venezianischen Dalmatien, 1420–1499 (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021).

Judit Majorossy, Ph.D. (2006), is a lecturer of urban history at the University of Vienna. She has published widely on medieval Hungary, including sources editions and Piety in Practice: Urban Religious Life and Communities in Late Medieval Pressburg (CEU Press, 2021).

Eirik Hovden, Ph.D. (2012), is a scholar of Islamic law and Yemeni history at the University of Bergen, Norway. His latest monograph is entitled Waqf in Zaydi Yemen. Legal theory, Codification and Local Practice (Brill, 2019).