Warriors of the cloisters
Subtitle: the Central Asian origins of science in the medieval world
By: Christopher I. Beckwith
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691155319
Subjects: Science; Medieval Science; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The recursive argument method of medieval science; title: From college and universitas to university; title: Buddhist Central Asian invention of the method; title: Islamization in classical Arabic Central Asia; title: Transmission to medieval Western Europe; title: India, Tibet, China, Byzantium, and other control cases.