{"product_id":"meanings-of-community-across-medieval-eurasia-comparative-approaches-9789004311978","title":"Meanings of Community across Medieval Eurasia: Comparative Approaches","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume explores some of the many different meanings of community across medieval Eurasia. How did the three ‘universal’ religions, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, frame the emergence of various types of community under their sway? The studies assembled here in thematic clusters address the terminology of community; genealogies; urban communities; and monasteries or ‘enclaves of learning’: in particular in early medieval Europe, medieval South Arabia and Tibet, and late medieval Central Europe and Dalmatia. It includes work by medieval historians, social anthropologists, and Asian Studies scholars. The volume present the results of in-depth comparative research from the Visions of Community project in Vienna, and of a dialogue with guests, offering new and exciting perspectives on the emerging field of comparative medieval history. Contributors are (in order within the volume) Walter Pohl, Gerda Heydemann, Eirik Hovden, Johann Heiss, Rüdiger Lohlker, Elisabeth Gruber, Oliver Schmitt, Daniel Mahoney, Christian Opitz, Birgit Kellner, Rutger Kramer, Pascale Hugon, Christina Lutter, Diarmuid Ó Riain, Mathias Fermer, Steven Vanderputten, Jonathan Lyon and Andre Gingrich.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents Editors’ Preface ix List of Contributors xi Introduction: Meanings of Community in Medieval Eurasia 1 Walter Pohl part 1 Addressing Community: Terms, Concepts and Meanings 1 People(s) of God? Biblical Exegesis and the Language of Community in Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe 27 Gerda Heydemann 2 The Political Usage of Religious and Non-religious Terms for Community in Medieval South Arabia: A Comparative Response to Gerda Heydemann’s Chapter 61 Johann Heiss and Eirik Hovden 3 Jamāʿa vs. Mulk: Community-Centred and Ruler-Centred Visions of the Islamic Community 78 Rüdiger Lohlker part 2 Urban Communities and Non-Urban Sites 4 The City as Commune 99 Elisabeth Gruber 5 Addressing Community in Late Medieval Dalmatia 125 Oliver Schmitt 6 Urban Communities in Medieval South Arabia: A Comparative Reflection 148 Johann Heiss, Eirik Hovden and Elisabeth Gruber Part 3 Genealogies as Means for Constructing Communities 7 The Political Construction of a Tribal Genealogy from Early Medieval South Arabia 165 Daniel Mahoney 8 Genealogical Representations of Monastic Communities in Late Medieval Art 183 Christian Nikolaus Opitz 9 Genealogy into the Future: Glimpses from Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho’s  (1653–1705) Exposition of the Extended Dalai Lama Lineage 203 Birgit Kellner 10 Genealogy: A Comparative Perspective from the Early Medieval West 232 Walter Pohl PART 4 Spiritual Communities: Texts, Sites and Interactions 11 Introduction: Spiritual Communities across Medieval Eurasia 273 Rutger Kramer 12 Enclaves of Learning, Religious and Intellectual Communities in Tibet: The Monastery of gSang phu Neʼu thog in the Early Centuries of the Later Diffusion of Buddhism 289 Pascale Hugon 13 Teaching Emperors: Transcending the Boundaries of Carolingian Monastic Communities 309 Rutger Kramer 14 Competing Visions of Welfare in the Zaydi Community of Medieval South Arabia 338 Eirik Hovden 15 Vita communis in Central European Monastic Landscapes 362 Christina Lutter 16 The Schottenklöster in the World: Identity, Independence and Integration 388 Diarmuid Ó Riain 17 Among Teachers and Monastic Enclaves: An Inquiry into the Religious Learning of Medieval Tibet 417 Mathias Fermer 18 Enclaves of Learning: A Commentary on the Papers in the Section on  “Spiritual Communities” 451 Steven Vanderputten 19 Response to the Chapters in “Spiritual Communities” Section 461 Jonathan R. Lyon 20 Medieval Eurasian Communities by Comparison: Methods, Concepts,  Insights 468 Andre Gingrich Index 499","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210682458455,"sku":"9789004311978","price":160.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/meanings-of-community-across-medieval-eurasia-comparative-approaches-9789004311978","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}