Warriors of the cloisters : the Central Asian origins of science in the medieval world /
Beckwith, Christopher I.,1945-
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-198) and index.
The recursive argument method of medieval science -- From college and universitas to university -- Buddhist Central Asian invention of the method -- Islamization in classical Arabic Central Asia -- Transmission to medieval Western Europe -- India, Tibet, China, Byzantium, and other control cases.
Science, Medieval.
Academic disputations.
Science