This innovative volume of pre-modern cultural history offers the opportunity to compare the ways in which gender and status competition intersect across periods and places.
The fourteen contributions in this volume provide a broad coverage of astronomical traditions throughout Eurasia and North Africa, which, with very few exceptions, find their roots in the mathematical astronomy of Ptolemy.
Publication de 27 documents originaux qui sont les plus anciens témoignages de la pratique diplomatique des villes et principautés russes médiévales et qui proviennent tous du fonds de la municipalité de Riga, historiquement préservé depuis le XIIIe siècle.