Premodern History
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Compiling lists of individuals from various social and professional categories has always been a challenge for researchers of different historical places and periods. This kind of effort, which requires an endeavor both careful and... more
The Northern Song (960-1127) capital city of Kaifeng (also known as Bianjing or Dongjing) was the largest city in the medieval world. Its population surpassed the previous capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang and dwarfed contemporary world... more
The princely court has over time hosted everything that was most important in the country in terms of music. Here you could find a great musical diversity, catalogued according to the specifics of the area, with many foreign influences,... more
Tracing an early rabbinic approach to the human, this article analyzes how the Tannaim of the Mishnah and Tosefta set the human side by side with other species, and embedded their account within broader considerations of reproduction ,... more
This article draws attention to an obituary from the Saint Nicholas Princely Monastery of Popăuţi (Botoșani), whose original manuscript is stored at the Romanian Academy Library and whose content was totally unknown until today. The paper... more
Julia Costa Lopez " The 'Premodern' World" in the Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations, Mlada Bukovansky, Edward Keene, Maja Spanu, and Christian Reus-Smit (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 395-409
The results of the politics of Fernando el Católico. Les Affaires d'Italie from the French perspective of Antoine Varillas ANA ISABEL SANZ YAGÜE* Recibido: 13-06-2016 Aprobado: 24-09-2019 RESUMEN La política exterior llevada a cabo por... more
This course introduces students to the foundations of the modern world up to the year 1500 CE. The underlying theme of the course is that this period has seen an increasing interconnectedness between human societies, leading to the... more
To discover what barriers possibly hindered the movement of ideas, I analyse the correspondence of Isaac Titsingh, an official of the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC), the Dutch East India Company, who attempted to bring Japanese... more
Zhang, Ling. "The Matter of Time." Verge: Studies in Global Asias 7, no. 1 (2021): 80-90. In the feature "We Have Never Been Premodern," edited by Charlotte Eubanks. "The premodern is a derivative term of the modern and is used to stand... more
Politik har i alla tider utspelats på olika typer av platser, från de politiska sammanträdesrummen till galgbacken utanför byn. Vilken betydelse hade rummet eller platsen för politikens utformning under förmodern tid, och vad ansågs vara... more
The dominance of classic political history for many years led to the disregarding of “relatives’ letters” as a crucial source for understanding the formation of the Soviet state and society. These were letters to Soviet officials from... more
Caracterul multietnic al Transilvaniei, care s-a menţinut pe tot parcursul evoluţiei istorice a acestei provincii, s-a conturat încă din primele secole ale mileniului al II-lea. Din punct de vedere al cadrului natural, Transilvania... more
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Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł, starostwo gniewskie, sanktuarium w Piasecznie, uzdrowienie księżnej Krystyny Anny Radziwiłłowej.
From the dawn of human society, through early civilizations, to pre-Columbian American societies, Architecture of First Societies traces the different cultural formations that developed in various places throughout the world to form the... more
Conferință la Muzeul Municipiului București (Palatul Suțu), București, 18 octombrie 2018, orele 18.30-20,30; Coordonator conferințe: Cătălin D. Constantin
The emergence of meteorology in Vietnam did not begin in 1898–1899, with the French installation of a central meteorological observatory in Phù Liễn, near Hải Phòng, and a network of meteorological stations across Indochina. Prior to the... more
Natječaj za upis u Poslijediplomski doktorski studij predmoderne povijesti na Filozofskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu otvoren je do 30. rujna 2018. Kandidati i kandidatkinje mogu se natjecati za dodjelu „stipendije za studiranje na... more
In the present article I shall present and analyze 4 painted cassettes (one from Sfăraș and 3 from Bicalatul), which present the angel with the trumpet motive. In this analysis I am trying and identifying the source and the message.... more
Markets feature prominently in recent research of premodern historians as well as economists. Discussions cover the questions, for example, how a market can be grasp as a place, an event or a mechanism of exchange, or whether premodern... more
Affirming Alan Liu’s concept of digital epistemology (2014), it is suggested in this article that media archaeological and pedagogical approaches be applied to both digital culture and the humanities more general. The concept of digital... more