La Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (BVMC) ha desarrollado una aplicación basada en MASTER (Manuscript Access through Standards for Electronic Records), para el proyecto Manuscritos de América en las Colecciones Reales de la Real Biblioteca (Madrid). Con este proyecto se pretende unificar recursos de descripción bibliográfica aplicada a manuscritos añadiendo el acceso al documento en form...

This essay addresses the nature of the medieval transformation of Eurasia from the perspective of China during the Song dynasty (960-1279). Out of the many facets of the wholesale metamorphosis of Chinese society that characterized this era, I focus on the development of an increasingly bureaucratic and autocratic state, the emergence of a semi-autonomous local elite, and the impact on both tre...

Medieval European urbanization presents a line of continuity between earlier cities and modern European urban systems. Yet, many of the spatial, political and economic features of medieval European cities were particular to the Middle Ages, and subsequently changed over the Early Modern Period and Industrial Revolution. There is a long tradition of demographic studies estimating the population ...

The Voynich Manuscript is an undeciphered document from medieval Europe. We present current knowledge about the manuscript’s text through a series of questions about its linguistic properties.

unknown at any time or anywhere, but this is a very recent and fragile development. Of special fascination to historians of European imperialism from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century is Cohen's statement on page 141 that "a good case can be made that urban European populations of that period may have been among the nutritionally most impoverished, the most disease-ridden, and the shortes...