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  • - Diplomacy and Islam in the World of Ibn Fadlan
    av SHEPHERD JONATHAN
    1 362,-

    The year 922 saw a series of remarkable face-to-face encounters in the steppes between Bukhara and the Middle Volga. Ibn Fadlan was an intrepid member of a diplomatic and religious mission from the distant caliphate in Baghdad to the ruler of the Volga Bulgars. His account gives a vivid eyewitness description of the peoples he came upon (whose appearance, rituals and filthy habits both fascinate and appal) and a famous depiction of a Viking Rus ship burial. It is unique testimony to burgeoning exchanges between several different cultures, and to the emergence of new political structures on the steppes. Yet the account survives only as part of a later composite work, raising questions of meaning and historical interpretation. This pioneering interdisciplinary study of Ibn Fadlan's text and the world he surveyed draws on a variety of specialists to give readers both 'the bigger picture' of cultural and economic change in Eurasia, Byzantium and the Muslim world, and hard facts, in the form of archaeological and numismatic data.

  • - An Introduction
    av Richard Cross
    421,-

    The book discusses influential figures like Abelard, Peter Lombard and Hugh of St Victor; the use made by Aquinas of Aristotle; the mystical theology of Bonaventure; Robert Grosseteste's and Roger Bacon's interest in optics; the complex metaphysics of Duns Scotus; and the political thought of Marsilius of Padua and William of Ockham.

  • - The Cultural Politics of Empire in the Medieval World
    av AnnaLinden Weller
    1 341,-

    The Byzantine expansion into eastern Anatolia in the tenth century presented a challenge both to the imperial conquerors and their Armenian subjects.

  • - History, Myth and Legend in Medieval Iran
    av Haila Manteghi
    569 - 1 476,-

    Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world.

  • - A New History of the Anglo-Saxon World
    av Mark (University of Oxford & UK) Atherton
    528 - 1 847,-

  • - The Xi'an Stele and the Early Medieval Church of the East
    av R. Todd Godwin
    569 - 1 847,-

    The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China.

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