Contains 16 articles published between 1965 and 1996, beginning with several which consider whether musical instruments were excluded from medieval and Renaissance sacred music, or whether this view w
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 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
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
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This book includes four hitherto unpublished papers together with a substantial introductory historiographical and bibliographical overview.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
This is the first in a set of four volumes by Grabar (historical studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Islamic art and architecture, Harvard U.), the eminence grise of Islamic art and
This volume contains ten previously-published essays on the inquisitorial form of criminal prosecution used in the ecclesiastical and secular courts of medieval Europe. In the first six essays, Kelly
The 24 articles of this collection, first published in scholarly journals between 1977-1997, contain findings and analysis, many gleaned from sources in papyri, on the society, Christianization, and e
The French invasion of Italy under Charles VIII in 1494–95 has long been seen as inaugurating a new and wretched era in Italian history. The present volume, the work of an international team of cont
Moving beyond the recent interest in the 1588 Spanish Armada incident, Loomie (history, Fordham U.) explores the policies of three Spanish Habsburg monarchs towards England in some of the less familia
From c. 1215 to 1368 China was part of the world empire of the Mongols, and during this period underwent many changes as the country was opened up to external influences - demographic, linguistic, rel
The emergence of a widespread ‘plantation complex’, in which slave labour produced crops such as sugar on large estates funded by European capital, was a phenomenon of the New World. This book sho
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
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
Nine papers, originally published 1971-92, discuss general themes, specific manifestations, and and regional styles of architecture from the second century B.C. into the later Islamic period of the Mi
Finding the recent publications on the military religious orders voluminous but somewhat uneven, Luttrell offers again 19 detailed his studies based on primary document and archival research that firs
This fourth collection by David Jacoby focuses on Western economic expansion the Eastern Mediterranean during the 11tha€“15th centuries. He is concerned to emphasize the interconnections linking the W
The celestial breadth of topics requires wide horizons to contain the 11 papers, some published as early as 1982 and some making their first appearance here. They consider such aspects as Habash al-Ha
