"The history of Byzantium pivots around the eleventh century. For it was then that it reached its apogee, in terms of power, prestige and territorial extension, only to plunge into steep political decline in the second half of the century. It is therefore well worth taking a tho…
Comprend 29 communications en anglais, 18 en français et 2 en allemand. Chiefly English (29 contributions) and French (18 contributions); includes two contributions in German.
The purpose of this work is to provide a political narrative of the Abbasid dynasty during the 11ᵗʰ and 12ᵗʰ centuries showing that the caliphs were key figures in the political-cultural arena rather than impotent puppets as we have often portrayed them in the secondary literatu…
Isaac ibn Khalfun (b. ca. 990) was one of the earliest of the “Golden Age” Hebrew poets in al-Andalus, and the only professional Hebrew poet known to us from this period. Though today he is perhaps best-known for the poems which he exchanged with Samuel ha-Nagid of Granada, he w…
A wide-ranging, in-depth study of the Saivite and Buddhist Tantric traditions, this dissertation in thirteen chapters covers the historical development of Tantra in the Indian context prior to the Islamic invasions, relying principally on Sanskrit texts. The dissertation provide…
In the late eleventh century, with the collapse of the Iberian Caliphate, the Ebro watershed came under the control of the Christian principalities which would become the 'Crown of Aragon.' The majority of the vanquished elected to remain under terms of surrender negotiated with…
