Ebook: Movement and Mobility in the Medieval Mediterranean: Changing Perspectives from Late Antiquity to the Long-Twelfth Century, I & Ideologies of Translation, III

In our 2021 summer issue, the medieval Mediterranean takes a prominent place. The first of two thematic sections addresses this macro-region that has received increasing attention in historiographic debates recently, a contact zone in which evidence of movement and mobility can be used to trace the exchange of cultures, of ideas and products. Under the title 'Movement and Mobility in the Medieval Mediterranean: Changing Perspectives from Late Antiquity to the Long-Twelfth Century', guest editors Christopher Heath, Clemens Gantner and Edoardo Manarini have assembled a series of articles, which will appear in this and the following volume 14 of 'Medieval Worlds'.

Furthermore, our successful series 'Ideologies of Translation' continues, focusing once again on the emerging research area of historical multilingualism, in which philological, linguistic, palaeographic and historical methods are combined to trace the scribes’ and preachers’ engagement with the texts and with their audience. This sub-series was launched in volume 12, in which multilingual sermons from England, France, Italy, Catalonia and Ireland were examined, and guest editor Jan Odstrčilík provided the readers with an overview of recent research and methodologies in this vibrant field of studies. In the present volume, this thematic section is complemented by studies on code-switching between Latin and English or Irish in sermons of the 7th, 9th and 15th centuries, and rounded off by a discussion of a compelling and little-known piece of evidence for multilingual preaching.