Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000-1600): Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

By Edited by Fabian Kümmeler

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, K roly Goda, Elisabeth Gruber, Johann Heiss, Kateřina Horn čkov , Eirik Hovden, Christian Jahoda, Christiane Kalantari, Odile Kommer, Fabian K mmeler, Christina Lutter, Judit Majorossy, Ermanno Orlando, and Noha Sadek.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004465774
• ISBN13: 9789004465770
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"