Warriors of the Cloisters : : The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World / / Christopher I. Beckwith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Beckwith, Christopher I.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]; ©2013
• שנת הוצאה לאור: 2012
• מהדורה: Course Book
• שפה: English
• תיאור פיזי: 1 online resource

Warriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. Medieval scholars rarely performed scientific experiments, but instead contested issues in natural science, philosophy, and theology usin...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations and Transcription of Foreign Languages
• Chapter One. Introduction
• Chapter Two. The Recursive Argument Method of Medieval Science
• Chapter Three. From College and Universitas to University
• Chapter Four. Buddhist Central Asian Invention of the Method
• Chapter Five. Islamization in Classical Arabic Central Asia
• Chapter Six. Transmission to Medieval Western Europe
• Chapter Seven. India, Tibet, China, Byzantium, and Other Control Cases
• Chapter Eight. Conclusion
• Appendix A: On the Latin Translations of Avicenna's Works
• Appendix B: On Peter of Poitiers
• Appendix C: The Charter of the Collège des Dix-huit
• References
• Index