Offers a description of China in the time of Mongol rule. Among the topics addressed are a Chinese historiography for that time; the progression from tribal chieftains to universal emperors and gods; Yuang China and Tibet; and a Sino-Uighur family portrait.

This volume focuses on the book production of the Frankish regions of Western Europe in the early Middle Ages. By examining manuscripts, the author shows how these can shed light on a variety of topics, such as women and literacy, and the knowledge of canon and secular law.

Focuses on the rise and fall of the Indian maritime merchant in the early modern period. This was the heyday of Moghul Surat, the appearance of a group of independent merchant shipowners, and their eclipse at the end of the period in the face of European competition and monopolies.

Discusses the appropriation of Greek science by scholars in the world of medieval Islam. This volume focuses on Ibn al-Haytham, one of the most influential figures of the 11th century, and on his contribution to the science of optics and the psychology of vision.

This volume contains 13 studies on the impact of the Enlightenment on the political thought and culture of the Balkans in the 18th-19th centuries, and on the development of the concept of nationality, in particular amongst the Greek-speaking peoples.

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.

This work examines the Byzantine liturgy. It encompasses the liturgy of the Great Church; a 12th-century diataxis in codex; paradigms in the formation of the Byzantine liturgical synthesis between Constantinople and Jerusalem; and the interpolation of the Sanctus into the anaphora.

This work deals with aspects of Zoroastrianism in Iran during the Sasanian period, including the important distinction made between notions of menog and getig, or the spiritual and material modes of existence, and the idea that Ahreman, the Evil Spirit, does not belong in the material world.

This volume focuses on the mathematical sciences in mediaeval Islam - astronomical instruments, the geometry of the sphere and the translation of texts (from Greek into Arabic and from Arabic into Latin). Four of the articles contain texts in Arabic or Latin, with commentary.

This collection of studies on the Arab-Persian medieval Islamic world focuses on historical, religious, cultural and literary aspects of the region from pre-Islamic times to the 15th century. Topics include the Arab caliphate and the successor dynasties, and Muslim perceptions of other faiths.