"The Gaṇitatilaka and its commentary : two Medieval Sanskrit mathematical texts, presents the first English annotated translation and analysis of the Gaṇitatilaka Sripati and its Sanskrit commentary by the Jaina monk Simhatilakasuri (13th century CE). Simhatilakasuri's commentar…
Found in pre-modern cultures of every era and across the world, from the ancient Near East to medieval Latin Christendom, the universal chronicle is simultaneously one of the most ubiquitous pre-modern cultural forms and one of the most overlooked. Universal chronicles narrate t…
"'Whether or not food passes into the truth of human nature' was among the questions that scholastic theologians routinely disputed. Many twelfth-century theologians, including Peter Lombard, argued that the 'truth' of every human body came entirely from Adam, and that food stim…
"In cities and towns across northern Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a new type of religious woman took up authoritative positions in society, all the while living as public recluses in cells attached to the sides of churches. In Lives of the Anchoresses, Anneke …
