Medievalists.net » Ming Dynasty http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 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 The Social Status and Thought of Merchants in Ming China, 1368-1644: A Foray in Clarifying the Social Effects of the Commercialization of Ming China http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/23/the-social-status-and-thought-of-merchants-in-ming-china-1368-1644-a-foray-in-clarifying-the-social-effects-of-the-commercialization-of-ming-china/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/23/the-social-status-and-thought-of-merchants-in-ming-china-1368-1644-a-foray-in-clarifying-the-social-effects-of-the-commercialization-of-ming-china/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:11:23 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28787 The application of some recent research by other scholars of Ming China and my readings of some sources dating from the period, I hope, will add nuances to our understanding of Ming commerce and society and furthermore contribute to a detailed approach to the non-Eurocentric writing of a comparative history of development in the early modern world.

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