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These studies represent Donald Hill's contribution to the history of Islamic technology during the second half of the 20th century, in addition to his monographs on the mechanical devices of Pseudo-Apollonios, the Banu Musa and al-Jazari.

This history of Eastern liturgical ritual reveals the world of the Christian Orient in its variety, and in the profundity of its theological thought. These rituals bear witness to the impact which the liturgies made on the Mediterranean cultures and societes of Late Antiquity.

This text uses anti-Jewish disputational literature to explore the rise of anti-Judaism. Christian theologians between 1000-1150, were trying to work out the relationship between Christianity and Judaism as they attempted to clarify their doctrines. Anti-Judaism was the response to their findings.

This is a collection of articles from various journals on the history of astronomy and astrology in the Medieval Islamic world. They look at subjects such as: Ibn al-Haytham's determination of the meridian from one solar altitude, and an astrological history based on Genghis Khan's career.

A survey of Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and slave system from the early 17th to the late 19th century. The book focuses on Dutch plantation colonies, Dutch participation in the illegal slave trade and the abolition of slavery in the Dutch West Indies.

Drawing upon archival research and musicological theory, these essays investigate distinctive qualities in French opera from early opera comique to early grand opera. "Media" is interpreted in terms of both narrative systems and practical theatre resources.

The articles in this volume provide a background to the study of pre- and early Islamic history. The studies are based on a wide range of sources, but often focus on illuminating particular accounts which are analyzed and placed in their historical context.

Philosophy in the medieval Latin West before 1200 is often thought to have been dominated by Platonism. The articles in this volume question this view, by cataloguing, describing and investigating the tradition of Aristotelian logic during this period, and examining its influence.

The author argues that a real history of women's healthcare in medieval Western Europe has not yet been written as most extant texts relating to it have never been edited or studied. Using insights from women's history and gender studies, she shows how historians must remove layers of assumption.

The essays in this collection deal with a form of criminal prosecution developed by Pope Innocent III and perfected at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. They aim to throw light on how procedural jurisprudence developed and provide a background for study of present-day concerns about due process.

These studies span the period from the origins of the crusading movement in the 11th century until its final active phase during the Renaissance. The book looks at the development of crusades, the conflict with Church, and other forms of religious warfare in Europe in the Middle Ages.

From 750 to 850 AD Christians, living under Islamic rule, began to compose theological works in Syriac and Arabic to counter the religious challenges of Islam. Griffith explores the works of writers who apologised for Christianity at that time.

The main focus of this work is the Ottoman empire's reaction to, accommodation with and eventual acceptance of the Western scientific tradition. Setting this in the context of contemporary cultural and political life, the author examines institutions of learning and the spread of "Western-style".

Focuses on three 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 whole phenomenon; and, the historical origins of Turkish and Arab identities leading to the modern phenomenon of nationalism.

16 studies in English, dealing with the period from the "barbarian" incursions into the Roman world up to the Carolingian Empire. This text focuses on the origins of "feudalism" and the rise of heavy cavalry using stirrups.

The focus of this volume is the book production of the Frankish regions of Western Europe in the early Middle Ages.

These 11 studies in English are concerned with medieval scientific learning in Europe, including Stevens' "Jarrow Lecture", revised for this volume, on Bede's scientific achievement.

Presents twelve studies which are linked together by a common theme, namely the relationship of Byzantine art to the imaginary. This book shows how art enabled the Byzantines not only to imagine the sacred events of the past, but also to visualize the invisible present by manifesting the spiritual world that they could not see.

Aimed at the historians of Islam and Byzantium, the essays in this volume deal with the history of the Middle East from c 550 to 1000 AD. It emphasises social and economic trends and the integration of written and archaeological evidence to elucidate the complex developments in this pivotal part of the world.

Describes the jurists (civilists) of the 12th-century Latin West, that were the bearers of a new science, born in Bologna about 1100. Away from Bologna, these pioneers were isolated, scattered from Scotland to Styria or Catalonia. This book deals with these people and their manuscripts and the relationships between them.

A collection of studies which covers the differences in the style and organisation of scientific activity in Britain and France in the 18th and early 19th centuries. This exploration of organisation and power is complemented by a comparative study of the practice of early 'physics' and chemistry and their different reliance on laboratories.

Brings a series of studies that deals with the impact of the Mongols in the eastern Muslim world. This book also deals with some of aspects in the state established by Hulegu, grandson of Chinggis Khan like: the development of the land-tenure system; the title 'ilkhan'; the use of Arabic sources for the history of the Ilkhanate; and more.

Includes essays united with the following theme: the attitude of the medieval Church, and in particular the papacy, toward the Jewish population of Western Europe.

Includes essays that approach the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in early modern Europe from the perspective of two areas at the center of current scholarly work in the humanities: book history and the history of reading.

Features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 1540-1690. This work also includes essays that interrogate how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery, and gendered constructions of maternity.

Features articles that analyse the contribution made by overseas trade, and the wealth in coin which it created, to the development of the English economy and locate this in an European-wide setting. This work also shows how the wool trade altered the geographical pattern of wealth and enriched peasants, landowners and merchants.

Part of "Variorum" series, this book presents a collection of essays that range from a case-study of a single crowded Norfolk manor to a consideration of the broad and, towards the end of the Middle Ages, widening contrasts that persisted between North and South.

Explores problems in Fatimid history and historiography, many specifically focused on the content of doctrinal writings produced by the Ismaili supporters and agents of this caliphate who worked on behalf of the dynasty within the empire and outside. This work also looks at issues in disputes that separated the various factions of Medieval Islam.

Features essays that examine clerical and ordinary chants and tropes of the mass, certain aspects of chant notation and particular facets of the old Beneventan and the old Roman chant repertories in relation to the three main cultic centres of the Italian south - Benevento, Montecassino and Rome - and as they relate to their European context.

Argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. This book presents a collection of essays that deal with the evolutionary naturalists, especially biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, physicist John Tyndall, and philosopher of evolution, Herbert Spencer.