About the Journal

“Transmediterranean History” is a commented anthology of primary sources that aims at facilitating access to transmediterranean themes and their documentation roughly in the period between 600 and 1650. The anthology is published as a trilingual open access journal in German, English, and Arabic.

Contributions centre around a primary source excerpt that is presented in its original language and in translation. This excerpt is equipped with a tripartite commentary that follows certain standards. Part 1 furnishes details on issues of authorship and the larger work. Part 2 deals with the contents and context of quoted passage. Part 3 then contextualises, analyses, and interprets the excerpt within the wider thematical framework of transmediterranean relations. A list of the excerpt’s available editions and translations, a bibliography containing the cited literature and recommended readings as well as a list of keywords complement the commentary.

The main page of this journal features a chronological list of all contributions to the anthology as to facilitate an overview over the development of transmediterranean relations.

The journal infrastructure is provided by the Communication, Information, and Media Centre (KIM) at the University of Konstanz. Work on contributions to the journal has been sponsored by the University of Konstanz and the project "RELCOM: Interreligious Communication between the Latin-Christian and the Arabic-Islamic Sphere. Macro-theories and Micro-settings" (2022-2025), financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

ISSN  2942-2760