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From the first contact in University of Cambridge University of Cambridge the 790s the book traces the political, The writing and reading of history in the It would be difficult to overstate the military, social, cultural and religious early Middle Ages form the key themes importance of Joseph Needham’s history of the Viking Age from Iceland to of this book. The primary focus is on the Science and Civilisation in China series. Lithuania. The authors show that it is no remarkable manifestations of historical For nearly fifty years, Needham and his longer possible to understand the writing in relation to historical memory collaborators have revealed the ideals, history of the Norman Conquest, the in the Frankish kingdoms of the eighth concepts and achievements of China’s successes of David I of Scotland or and ninth centuries. It considers the scientific and technological traditions German settlement in Poland, Prussia audiences for history in the Frankish from the earliest times to about 1800 and the Baltic States without integrating kingdoms, the recording of memory in through this great enterprise. During his the internal history of Scandinavia. The new genres including narrative histories, long working lifetime, Needham kept in book concludes with a new account of cartularies and Libri memoriales, and draft various essays, some written with the end of the Viking era, arguing that thus particular perceptions of the collaborators, in which he set out his there was no sudden decline but only Frankish and Christian past. It analyses broad views on the Chinese social and the gradual absorption of the both original manuscript material and historical context. These essays, edited Scandinavian kingdoms into the larger key historical texts from the Carolingian by one of his closest collaborators, project of the the crusades and a period, a remarkably creative period in Kenneth Robinson, are contained in the refocusing of imperial ambitions on the the history of European culture. present volume. A reading of this Baltic States and Eastern Europe. Presentations of the past developed in material makes it possible to reconstruct 2004 247 x 174 mm 420pp this period were crucial in forming an the assumptions and problematics that 20 line diagrams 60 half-tones 3 maps historical understanding of the Greco- underpinned and drove the Needham 0 521 82992 5 Hardback c. £25.00 Roman and Judaeo-Christian past and, Publication October 2004 project throughout the nearly one half in subsequent centuries, of early century during which he was at the medieval Europe. They also played an helm. The documents gathered here FORTHCOMING extraordinarily influential role in the reveal the intellectual foundations of The Origins and formation of political ideologies and one of the greatest scholarly enterprises senses of identity within Europe. of the twentieth century. Evolution of Islamic 2004 228 x 152 mm 362pp Contents: 1. Prefaces; 2. Foreword Joseph Law 0 521 82717 5 Hardback c. £50.00 Needham;3.Science and society in east Wael B. Hallaq 0 521 53436 4 Paperback c. £17.99 and west Joseph Needham;4.The roles of McGill University, Montréal Publication June 2004 Europe and China in the evolution of Long before the rise of Islam in the ecumenical science Joseph Needham;5.The early seventh century, Arabia had come nature of Chinese society: a technical to form an integral part of the Near interpretation Huang Jen-yü and Joseph Needham;6.History and human values: a East. This book, covering more than Chinese perspective for science and three centuries of legal history, presents technology Joseph Needham;7.Literary an important account of how Islam Chinese as a language for science Kenneth developed its own law while drawing Robinson and Joseph Needham;8.General on ancient Near Eastern legal cultures, conclusions; 9. Joseph Needham: a Arabian customary law and Quranic soliloquy Kenneth Robinson;Bibliographies. reforms. The development of the Science and Civilisation in China judiciary, legal reasoning and legal 2004 246 x 189 mm 300pp 21 half-tones authority during the first century is 0 521 08732 5 Hardback c. £55.00 Publication July 2004 discussed in detail as is the dramatic rise of prophetic authority, the crystallization of legal theory and the formation of the all-important legal schools. Finally the book explores the interplay between law and politics, explaining how the jurists and the ruling elite led a symbiotic existence that – History: The New Cambridge Medieval History 3 The New Cambridge 18. Scandinavia (c. 500–700 AD) Lotte ecclesiastical and secular, and major Medieval History Hedeager; 19. The Slavs 500–700 AD developments such as the expansion of Zbigniew Kobylinski;Part III: Themes and population, agriculture, trade, and Series Editors: David Abulafia Problems: 20. The Jews in Europe, towns; the radical reform of the western Rosamond McKitterick 500–1050 Michael Toch; 21. Kings and church; the appearance of new kingship Patrick Wormald; 22. The Martin Brett kingdoms and states, the crusades, Edward Powell Mediterranean economy Simon Loseby; 23. The Northern seas (fifth to eighth knighthood and law; and the Simon Keynes centuries) Stéphane Lebecq; 24. Money and development of literature, art and Jonathan Shepard coinage Mark Blackburn; 25.