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.
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
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
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
Twenty articles by Hill (1922-94) represent some of his more important short accounts published 1973-95 on Islamic engineering in classical and medieval times. They include discussions of fine technol
Professor Emmer (pictured, but with no affiliation given) fills gaps in the neglected study of Dutch expansion in the Atlantic, notable for linking the production technology and capitalism of the firs
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
In the present collection of his articles George Makdisi is first of all concerned with the local history and the topography of Baghdad. This is of interest in itself, as a study of one of the princip
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 main themes of this volume are the explorations and geographical discoveries, and the economic circumstances that lay behind the establishment of commercial relations between Muscovite Russia and
Delineates the two very different traditions of astronomy in medieval Islam: legal scholars watched the crescent moon to keep the calendar, and used shadows to keep the hours and direction of prayer,
Two of the papers were written for the collection; the other 20 have been published over the past 40 years. They focus mostly on buildings in Constantinople, but also consider manuscripts relating to
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
