Medievalists.net » India http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Comparing China and India in the 9th century http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/03/comparing-china-and-india-in-the-9th-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/03/comparing-china-and-india-in-the-9th-century/#comments Sun, 03 May 2015 21:46:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58000 A ninth-century Arabic text offers insights into daily life in medieval China and India.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/03/comparing-china-and-india-in-the-9th-century/feed/ 0 Valentine’s Day Medieval Love: Books for that special someone http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/02/valentines-day-medieval-love-books-for-that-special-someone/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/02/valentines-day-medieval-love-books-for-that-special-someone/#comments Mon, 03 Feb 2014 01:11:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47246 Love is in the air! Here are a few medieval books on the topic of love for your Valentine.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/02/valentines-day-medieval-love-books-for-that-special-someone/feed/ 0 Marvels and Allies in the East. India as Heterotopia of Latin Europe in the 12th Century http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/18/marvels-and-allies-in-the-east-india-as-heterotopia-of-latin-europe-in-the-12th-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/18/marvels-and-allies-in-the-east-india-as-heterotopia-of-latin-europe-in-the-12th-century/#comments Sat, 18 Jan 2014 23:27:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46776 It has long been said that Latin Europe lost its connection to the East, specifically to Asia, in the early Middle Ages. But this is only part of the truth. From late Antiquity on, there were Christians in many places between the Mediterranean Sea and China.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/18/marvels-and-allies-in-the-east-india-as-heterotopia-of-latin-europe-in-the-12th-century/feed/ 0 Vespucci’s Triangle and the Shape of the World http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/17/vespuccis-triangle-and-the-shape-of-the-world/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/17/vespuccis-triangle-and-the-shape-of-the-world/#comments Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:02:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46765 Interdisciplinary interactions between sixteenth-century travellers and cosmographers produced visual models that challenged normative modes of visual thinking, even as they tried to clarify ideas about the earth’s surface.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/17/vespuccis-triangle-and-the-shape-of-the-world/feed/ 0 The Black Death in Medieval India: a Historical Mystery http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/09/the-black-death-in-medieval-india-a-historical-mystery/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/09/the-black-death-in-medieval-india-a-historical-mystery/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:20:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36374 Why did a pestilence that had such an impact on one part of the world go unmentioned in another part of the world?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/09/the-black-death-in-medieval-india-a-historical-mystery/feed/ 0 Singers, advisers, and servants: role of eunuchs from a historical context http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/24/singers-advisers-and-servants-role-of-eunuchs-from-a-historical-context/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/24/singers-advisers-and-servants-role-of-eunuchs-from-a-historical-context/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 05:08:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35941 According to the Book of Matthew, Jesus said that there were eunuchs made of men, who had made them- selves by their fathers to be that way for heaven’s sake, and if they have received such a procedure, then let them keep it. Jesus referred to castration as an infallible way to achieve celibacy. And records of Christian history indicate that many Christian religious figures were castrated.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/24/singers-advisers-and-servants-role-of-eunuchs-from-a-historical-context/feed/ 0 ‘Old Men of the Mountains’: a comparative study of the Ghūrids and the Ismā‘īlīs of Alamūt http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/26/old-men-of-the-mountains-a-comparative-study-of-the-ghurids-and-the-ismailis-of-alamut/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/26/old-men-of-the-mountains-a-comparative-study-of-the-ghurids-and-the-ismailis-of-alamut/#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:24:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34194 Striking parallels exist between these two dynasties – marginalised and despised by their neighbours, they established secure mountain strongholds, which acted as refuges and bases from which to expand.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/19/medieval-arabic-manuscripts-east-india-company-papers-to-go-online/feed/ 0 Imagining Samarkand: Fruitful Themes in 13th-16th Century Literature on a Silk Road City http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/28/imagining-samarkand-fruitful-themes-in-13th-16th-century-literature-on-a-silk-road-city/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/28/imagining-samarkand-fruitful-themes-in-13th-16th-century-literature-on-a-silk-road-city/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:46:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33284 ... Samarkand was seen as the last great urban Islamic stop.4 Perhaps because of this, the period between the Arab invasion of Samarkand and the Mongol invasion in 1220 fomented many of the mythologies about the city which will feature prominently in this paper.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/28/imagining-samarkand-fruitful-themes-in-13th-16th-century-literature-on-a-silk-road-city/feed/ 0 Imagining the Metropolis on the Islamic Periphery: Commerce, Scholarship, and Architecture in 15th c. Bidar and Timbuktu http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/13/imagining-the-metropolis-on-the-islamic-periphery-commerce-scholarship-and-architecture-in-15th-c-bidar-and-timbuktu/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/13/imagining-the-metropolis-on-the-islamic-periphery-commerce-scholarship-and-architecture-in-15th-c-bidar-and-timbuktu/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:24:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31011 In this paper I wish to explore the similarities and differences that these two cities exhibit in terms of their evolution, their relationship to political power, and most importantly, the ways they imagined themselves in relation to metropolitan centers in the Islamic heartland.

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