The growing interest in civilizations, both on the level of political controversy ("the clash of civilizations") and in the context of scholarly debates, calls for more theoretical reflection on the problems and perspectives central to this field of social inquiry. This book contains the first systematical and critical survey of classical and contemporary approaches to comparative civilizational analysis; it goes on to outline a theoretical modelthat draws on the work of historical sociologists as well as on comparative cultural and intellectual history. Civilizations are analyzed as...
The growing interest in civilizations, both on the level of political controversy ("the clash of civilizations") and in the context of scholarly debat...
This volume which also appeared as a special issue of Medieval Encounters deals with transformations of the major Eurasian civilizations in the early second millennium CE, and with the question of contrasts, parallels and connections between the different trajectories that took shape during this period. An introductory section discusses the theoretical problems of comparative analysis, with particular reference to formative phases of cultural crystallization. The first main thematic section focuses on European developments. The emergence of Western Christendom as a distinctive civilization is...
This volume which also appeared as a special issue of Medieval Encounters deals with transformations of the major Eurasian civilizations in the early ...
