Traditionally, relations between Europe and Asia have been studied in a hegemonic perspective, with Europe as the dominant political and economic centre. Even with respect to cultural exchange, the model of diffusion regarded Europe as the centre, and Asia the recipient, whereby…
The Byzantine and early Islamic Near East
The main themes in these papers are transition from the world of late antiquity to Islam in a greater Syria which includes modern Lebanon, Palestine/Israel, part of southern Turkey and the modern Syrian Arab Republic, relations between Muslim and Byzantine worlds, and the early …
The Byzantine and early Islamic Near East
The main themes in these papers are transition from the world of late antiquity to Islam in a greater Syria which includes modern Lebanon, Palestine/Israel, part of southern Turkey and the modern Syrian Arab Republic, relations between Muslim and Byzantine worlds, and the early …
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Medieval frontiers: concepts and practices
In recent years, the 'medieval frontier' has been the subject of extensive research. The term has been understood in many different ways: political boundaries; fuzzy lines across which trade, religions and ideas cross; attitudes to other peoples and their customs. This book draw…
From an interdisciplinary standpoint, this book shows how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history than that supposed by such homogenizing metropolitan myths as the ruin of indigenous cultures or the mimicry of European models by an abject population.
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European,…
"Extending his distinctive analysis of Homeric epic to the Iliad, Bruce Louden presents new approaches to understanding the themes and story of the poem. In this study, he demonstrates how repeated narrative motifs argue for an expanded understanding of the structure of epic poe…
