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Dawa Wangdui: A Tibetan Serf-Turned Entrepreneur
When I drove to Tibet in 1994, what most impressed us was the Tibetan’s outgoing and hospitable nature, but I had never had a bear hug like that from...
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Coda: “Songs from the Wood”
The Coda, “Songs from the Wood,” reads the lute as an instrumental actor in global and temporal networks. Probably most familiar as the instrument...
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Elizabeth’s Pleasures
Being queen was hard work and there were many tensions and difficulties. But there were a number of activities that also gave Elizabeth great...
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Pleasing God, Serving the Citizens: Charity and Water Supply in Cairo and Baghdad
As Baghdad and Cairo were among the most populous cities of the medieval period, water management was of key importance to the survival of these...
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My Journeys to **njiang: From Dream to Reality
The seeds of my dream journey to **njiang in China’s remote far west were planted early. While a pupil at primary school, in my textbook I read Zhang...
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Early Historiography of Science
The chapter focuses mainly on early historiography of mathematics (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries). The earliest historiographical essays are...
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Early Historiography of Science
The chapter focuses mainly on early historiography of mathematics (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries). The earliest historiographical essays are...
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Fatma Aliye’s Invisible Authorship: A Turkish Muslim Woman Writer’s Challenge to Orientalism and Patriarchy
This chapter discusses Fatma Aliye’s books—Hayal ve Hakikat (1891, Dream and Reality), Muhadarat (1892, Stories), and Nisvan-ı Islam (1892, Women of...
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Part III: World Music: East Is West
Coined in the latter half of the twentieth century, “World Music” has become a catch-all phrase to label music of various “exotic” cultures. At its...
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Part IX, in which are described many instruments and ways of rendering and transporting things in perspective
The half-sphere is used to make sun clocks in various planes, but that serves us for only one elevation. We have imagined an instrument that is not...
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Ambassadors at Elizabeth’s Court
In the sixteenth century many people took their dreams seriously. We know of several dreams that Elizabeth had that she mentioned. We also know about...
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The Tragedian Agathon in Aristophanes and Plato: The Dramatic Construction of Deviant Behaviour
The Athenian tragic poet Agathon (c. 448–c. 400 BC) was considered by the ancients an innovator in tragedy. Agathon’s ‘new’ music is mocked by...
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Civil War, the Accession of Mohammad Shah and the Persian Retreat from Herat (1834–1839)
Following the death of Fath ‘Ali Shah, his son ‘Ali Shah Mirza Zell os-Soltan, governor of Tehran, seized a portion of his deceased father’s jewels...
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Egodocuments and The Diary of Constantijn Huygens Jr.
The Dutch historian Rudolf Dekker opens this essay with a review of the development of egodocument history before turning to an analysis of the diary...
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A Troublesome Relationship: The US Grand Strategy and NATO
The paper aims to provide a long-term overview of how the US grand strategy and NATO posture interacted and evolved side by side. The developoment of...
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The Transcription
This section contains the complete transcription of Pw V90. We begin by laying out our transcription principles before providing the transcription...
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Microscopy and Natural Philosophy: Robert Hooke, His Micrographia, and the Early Royal Society
This contribution focuses on the graphic project Robert Hooke developed for the Royal Society in the mid-1660s, which resulted in his celebrated...
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Wither Philosemitic Europe? Antisemitism after the “Golden Era”
The defeat of the Labour Party in the 2019 general election in Britain has put to rest the tumultuous “Corbyn Affair” (2015–2019). Whether Labour...