Meanings of Community across Medieval Eurasia

Eirik Hovden, Ph.D. (2012), is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA), Austrian Academy of Sciences. He works on Yemeni history in general and specific topics related to Zaydi history, Islamic law, endowments and local water management.Christina Lutter, Ph.D. (1998), is Professor of Austrian History at the University of Vienna. Her research and publications concentrate on various aspects of Central European medieval and early modern cultural and gender history.Walter Pohl, Ph.D. (1984), is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Vienna and director of the Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy. He works on identity formation and other aspects of early medieval Europe.

• ContentsEditors’ Preface ixList of Contributors xiIntroduction: Meanings of Community in Medieval Eurasia 1Walter Pohlpart 1Addressing Community: Terms, Concepts and Meanings1 People(s) of God? Biblical Exegesis and the Language of Community inLate Antique and Early Medieval Europe 27Gerda Heydemann2 The Political Usage of Religious and Non-religious Terms for Communityin Medieval South Arabia: A Comparative Response to GerdaHeydemann’s Chapter 61Johann Heiss and Eirik Hovden3 Jamāʿa vs. Mulk: Community-Centred and Ruler-Centred Visions of theIslamic Community 78Rüdiger Lohlkerpart 2Urban Communities and Non-Urban Sites4 The City as Commune 99Elisabeth Gruber5 Addressing Community in Late Medieval Dalmatia 125Oliver Schmitt6 Urban Communities in Medieval South Arabia: A ComparativeReflection 148Johann Heiss, Eirik Hovden and Elisabeth GruberPart 3Genealogies as Means for Constructing Communities7 The Political Construction of a Tribal Genealogy from EarlyMedieval South Arabia 165Daniel Mahoney8 Genealogical Representations of Monastic Communities inLate Medieval Art 183Christian Nikolaus Opitz9 Genealogy into the Future: Glimpses from Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho’s(1653–1705) Exposition of the Extended Dalai Lama Lineage 203Birgit Kellner10 Genealogy: A Comparative Perspective from the EarlyMedieval West 232Walter PohlPART 4Spiritual Communities: Texts, Sites and Interactions11 Introduction: Spiritual Communities across Medieval Eurasia 273Rutger Kramer12 Enclaves of Learning, Religious and Intellectual Communities inTibet: The Monastery of gSang phu Neʼu thog in the Early Centuries ofthe Later Diffusion of Buddhism 289Pascale Hugon13 Teaching Emperors: Transcending the Boundaries of CarolingianMonastic Communities 309Rutger Kramer14 Competing Visions of Welfare in the Zaydi Community of MedievalSouth Arabia 338Eirik Hovden15 Vita communis in Central European Monastic Landscapes 362Christina Lutter16 The Schottenklöster in the World: Identity, Independence andIntegration 388Diarmuid Ó Riain17 Among Teachers and Monastic Enclaves: An Inquiry into the ReligiousLearning of Medieval Tibet 417Mathias Fermer18 Enclaves of Learning: A Commentary on the Papers in the Section on“Spiritual Communities” 451Steven Vanderputten19 Response to the Chapters in “Spiritual Communities” Section 461Jonathan R. Lyon20 Medieval Eurasian Communities by Comparison: Methods, Concepts,Insights 468Andre GingrichIndex 499