Reprints 17 articles from scholarly journals on armed forces and the expansion of Europe, changes in the military, indigenous assistance and resistance, tactics, technology, and medicine from the 15th
This is the second collection of articles by Kunitzsch on Arabic-Islamic astronomy and its reception in medieval Europe. In this multi- lingual edition (English, German and French) Kunitzsch examines
Originally written as preparatory studies for books or contributions to conferences, festschrifts, or collaborative publications, the 18 articles are reproduced from journal publication between 1980 a
The papers presented here explore in various ways the interactions between clerics and the society in which Christian churches put down roots in Late Antiquity. Some of these complex processes, involv
These studies by Wael Hallaq represent an important contribution to our understanding of the neglected field of medieval Islamic law and legal thought. Spanning the period from the 8th to the 16th cen
The fifteen studies assembled here grew out of research on south-Italian ordinary chants and tropes for the multi-volume series Beneventanum Troporum Corpus II, edited by John Boe in collaboration wit
This selection of articles, published for the 50th anniversary of the author's doctorate at GA?ttingen, opens with studies on his teacher, Percy Ernst Schramm, and his contribution to the study of the
Reprints of articles written over a period of 30 years on science in medieval Islam. Topics include the appropriation and subsequent naturalization of Greek science in medieval Islam; explanation of o
The first eight studies in this volume seek to address a series of questions concerning the emergence and the role of the military orders in the 12th and 13th centuries: the reasons for the appearance
Boston College professor Weiss has gathered essays from a variety of publications for this collection of his work on humanist biography. He has provided an in-depth introduction along with updates of
Ibn Sina (980-1037 AD), long known in the West as Avicenna, was at the center of the school of Islamic philosophy that inherited and adapted Greek thinking from pre-Socratic to late Hellenic times, sa
The geographic center of gravity for the 14 reproduced articles is the tropical and south Atlantic, rather than the more familiar connections between Europe and North America. Temporally they consider
Mamluks and Crusaders: Men of the Sword and Men of the Pen brings together a series of studies, based mainly on medieval Arabic sources, of Middle Eastern history and society in the late Middle Ages.
Professor Stuard collects here a set of her articles on women and gender in the Middle Ages, beginning with her first, published in 1975. The first section, on marriage, opens with an exploration of t
The collection of 13 previously published articles offers a one-stop resource to the emblematic works of the field, spanning 40 years, from James T. Monroe's 1972 "Oral Composition in Pre-Islamic Poet
Reproduced from publication from the 1930s to the 1990s, 21 studies of the Muslim scripture reflect the legacies of two tendencies in European scholarship on it: polemic interpretations to aid refutat
The papers in this volume derive from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, in March 1997.T
Contains 15 contributions that examine the sources for the First Crusade. The essays cover the period from the inauguration of the crusading movement through to the 16th century and refer to a wide va
A prodigious historian of Byzantium, Oikonomides is spoken of in the past tense, which might explain why this fourth Variorum collection is described as his last. The 28 articles from the tail end of
Talbot is a scholar affiliated with Dumbarton Oaks library and research center. This book collects articles she wrote and published between 1983 and 2000, looking at the religious life of Byzantine wo
In 12 essays reproduced from their original publications between 1983 and 1995, Pringle (history and archaeology, Cardiff U.) examines the physical remains of Frankish settlement in Palestine during t
From the second in a series of conferences, held in September 1992 in London, 33 papers explore diverse aspects of the orders from their appearance in the 12th century into the early 19th. Among them
Professor Thomson deals here with the origins of Armenian Christian literature and its development as an individual literary culture. At the same time, these studies make available to students of Patr
This collection of articles previously published in various journals in the early 21st century offers a detailed source for the study of precious objects produced and exchanged among rulers, courtiers
This book has three main themes: the socio-economic history of Turkish society in the 17th-18th centuries; the outcome of the Tanzimat (Reforms) in the province of Jerusalem, as an example of the whol
The subject of all of the articles by the late Patricia Labalme reprinted here is Renaissance Venice. These papers were published between 1955-1999 in various journals and collections. They fit well t
The studies here reflect Jonathan Riley-Smith's work as a historian, which began with research on the history of the military orders, the specific focus of the third section here. Out of this grew the
A collection of 14 articles on the literature and culture of the ancient Chinese court. The articles were previously published in various journals and reviews between 1972 and 1997. Coverage include
Previews the events to be covered in the series series on the European impact on world history, 1450-1800 , with essays published between the 1960s and the 1990s in a variety of publications, showing
The society and legal systems of Southern Arabia, both ancient and modern, form the subject of this second collection of articles by Professor Serjeant. His approach has been to make a detailed study
The central figure in this volume is that of Gratian, whose monumental compilation of canon law sparked off the revival of legal studies in the medieval West. In other collections of essays, Stephan
This is one of a pair of volumes by Paul Kroll (the companion volume deals with medieval Taoism and the poetry of Li Po). Collecting eleven essays by this leading scholar of Chinese poetry, the volume
The essays reproduced in this volume analyze the guild system in Byzantium and the West, and investigate for the first time the process of price formation in Byzantium. Innovative approaches are devis
The studies included in the present collection by Elizabeth Zachariadou are concerned with the long period of transition from the Byzantine Empire to its successor, the Ottoman Empire. Among the theme
This volume brings together a series of studies by Professor Blomquist on the evolution of banking in Lucca from the 12th and 13th centuries. They describe how the leading bankers operated, how they i
The long 11th century, extending from the mid-10th to the early-12th, are the temporal scope of the nine papers, reproduced from publication between 1978 and 2003. White mainly describes how nobles, i
Two major themes run through these studies by Gad Freudenthal: science and philosophy in the medieval Hebrew tradition; and the repercussions of Greek theories of matter in the medieval Arabic and Heb
Caviness (art history, Tufts U., Massachusetts), whose name is linked to extensive publications on stained glass, has gathered articles together in this collection which reflect this specialty as well
From rulers to uninvited guests, from women to thieves, from dreams to names, from blindness to torture - in a series of ground-breaking studies, Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam exp
This book includes four hitherto unpublished papers together with a substantial introductory historiographical and bibliographical overview. Many of the studies concern the liturgical views of figures
