Starting with Volume 13, the renowned series of books from the Medieval Studies Institute of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, is being published by Walter de Gruyter. The series presents a high-quality scholarly forum for interdisciplinary research in medieval studies. Its mission is to advance understanding of medieval literature, philosophy and art through soundly based research contributions. Apart from the volumes of proceedings of the biennial interdisciplinary Fribourg Colloquia, the SCRINIUM FRIBURGENSE series produces monographs from specific subject areas or from combinations of medieval subject areas represented in the Institute, i.e. general history, art history and the history of philosophy, Early Christian and Byzantine archaeology, and medieval literatures in Latin and the vernaculars. The studies contained in SCRINIUM FRIBURGENSE are distinguished by their continuation of well-established traditions of research, by the plurality of their methods, by the innovativeness of the questions posed and by their transdisciplinary methodological approach. The series is, of course, open to manuscripts from external scholars on problems of medieval research which match the profile of the series.

Die PROSOPOGRAPHIA IMPERII ROMANI (PIR) ist ein Personenlexikon und enthält Lebensdaten und -beschreibungen römischer Amtsträger. Ziel ist es, die gesamte Führungsschicht des Römischen Reiches in der Frühen und Hohen Kaiserzeit zu erfassen. Der bearbeitete Zeitraum beginnt mit der Schlacht von Aktium 31 v. Chr., seit der die monarchische Herrschaftsstruktur für Rom endgültig geworden war, und endet mit der Herrschaft Diokletians (284 - 305). Bisher sind fast 15.000 Personen dokumentiert. Die PIR erscheint vollständig in lateinischer Sprache.

The publication presents the results of the interdisciplinary Freiburg Colloquium 2021 (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) "Paradigms and Perspectives of Comparative Medieval Studies". The contributions explore the theoretical and methodological premises of historically orientated comparative research that focuses on the specific cultural conditions of the pre-modern period. The focus is on two central paradigms in current medievalist discourse: the materiality and mediality of medieval manuscript culture on the one hand and the central role of the Latin language as a supra-regional lingua franca and motor for exchange and innovation across linguistic and cultural borders on the other.