Автор: Charles Burnett

The first encounters between the Islamic world and Tibet took place in the course of the expansion of the Abbasid Empire in the eighth century. Military and political contacts went along with an …

The first encounters between the Islamic world and Tibet took place in the course of the expansion of the Abbasid Empire in the eighth century. Military and political contacts went along with an …

Astrology has recently become a subject of interest to scholars of the highest calibre. However, the tendency has been to look at the social context of astrology, the attacks on astrologers and their …

First Published in 1999. Man has always tried to find effective ways to predict the weather. Simple predictions from meteorological phenomena or from the constellations rising in the sky can be found …

First Published in 1999. Man has always tried to find effective ways to predict the weather. Simple predictions from meteorological phenomena or from the constellations rising in the sky can be found …

This collection of Charles Burnett’s articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working. The …

This collection of Charles Burnett’s articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working. The …

This volume, the second in the series of Marie-Therese d’Alverny’s selected articles to be published by Variorum, gathers the majority of her studies on the understanding of Islam in the West from …

This volume, the second in the series of Marie-Therese d’Alverny’s selected articles to be published by Variorum, gathers the majority of her studies on the understanding of Islam in the West from …

After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical …

After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical …