AVNER GIL'ADI, Children of Islam: concepts of childhood in medieval Muslim society, St Antony's/Macmillan Series, Basingstoke and Oxford, Macmillan in association with St Antony's College, 1992, pp. xii, 176, £40.00 (0-333-55598-8). This volume is a collection of eight studies by the author on various aspects of the history of childhood in medieval Islamic society. A useful introduction surveys...

Archaeozoology is devoted to the identification, analysis, and interpretation of animal remains from archaeological sites. The reconstruction of everyday life in the medieval period has become unimaginable without considering archaeological phenomena, as emphasis tends to be placed on outstanding events and personalities at the expense of the simple matters of life that characterized daily prac...

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 ...

[248] The passage of Greek science into Western Europe through medieval Spain has been one of the focal points of medieval intellectual history. Although the movement has been typically portrayed as a bipartite one, with translation from Greek into Arabic anteceding the flourescence of Arabic science in the ninth century, and a later phase of translation from Arabic into Latin (eleventh and twe...

This study empirically establishes a link between medieval trade, agglomeration and contemporary regional development in ten European countries. It documents a statistically and economically significant positive relationship between prominent involvement in medieval trade and commercial activities and regional economic development today. Further empirical analyses show that medieval trade posit...

This debate takes up the question whether concept of »state« can be used meaningfully in context medieval studies. The opening article by Brent D. Shaw addresses political organization Roman empire, and develops a comprehensive argument why even high standards it should regarded as state. six comments Nicola Di Cosmo (Chinese History), Stefano Gasparri Cristina La Rocca, Hans-Werner Goetz, RÃ...