Featherwork in Early and Medieval China

Slaves and Warriors in Early Medieval

The investigation of medieval slavery is still rooted in an approach first laid down by the likes of Adam Smith and John Millar over two hundred years ago. They conceptualised history as a series of stages through which societies moved, driven by the motor of increasing economic sophistication. In this conceptualisation, slavery was an economic institution and its decline in Britain during the ...

3 the Rules of Writing9 in Medieval China and Europe

Nutrition and the Early-Medieval Diet

political economy of china in central asia

this research is about the political economy of china in central asia. in this research the political & economic interactions affected on chinas political economy in central asia are examined. chinas goal of presence in central asia including political-security, economic and energy goals is described in one part. in another part, the trade relations between china and central asian countries ar...

Science, optics and music in medieval and early modern thought

A. C. CROMBIE, Science, optics and music in medieval and early modern thought, London and Ronceverte, Hambledon Press, 1990, pp. xxii, 474, illus., £37.50 (0-907628-79-6). This is a collected volume of essays written over the last forty years by Alistair Crombie, whose major achievement lies in establishing the history of science as a legitimate and viable discipline on British soil. It is Crom...