Eurasian transformations, tenth to thirteenth centuries
Subtitle: crystallizations, divergences, renaissances
By: edited by Johann P. Arnason and Björn Wittrock
Contributors: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences; European University Institute
Series: Brill's paperback collection
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9789004205772
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Congresses; Medieval Civilization
Notes: "Most of the papers included in this collection were first presented to a workshop in Uppsala in June 2003, organized under the auspices of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (SCASSS) and the European University Institute"--P.2.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Johann P. Arnason, Björn Wittrock; title: Parallels and divergencies: perspectives on the early second millennium / Johann P. Arnason; title: Cultural crystallizations and world history: the age of ecumenical renaissances / Björn Wittrock; title: The transformation of Europe as a Eurasian phenomenon / R.L. Moore; title: The birth of a new Europe about 1000 CE: conversion, transfer of institutional models, new dynamics / Gábor Klaniczay; title: The transformation of Europe: the role of Scandinavia / Sverre Bagge; title: The making of a European society: the example of Sweden / Thomas Lindkvist; title: Byzantium transformed, c. 950-1200 / Paul Stephenson; title: Transformation of the Islamicate civilization: a turning-point in the thirteenth century? / Said Amir Arjomand; title: The transformation of culture-power in Indo-Europe, 1000-1300 / Sheldon Pollock; title: Eurasian transformations of the tenth to thirteenth centuries: the view from Song China, 960-1279 / Paul Jakov Smith; title: Social change and contained transformations: warriors and merchants in Japan, 1000-1300 / Mikael S. Adolphson; title: The Mongol transformation: from the steppe to Eurasian empire / Michal Biran.