Diverging paths? : : the shapes of power and institutions in medieval Christendom and Islam / / edited by John Hudson, Ana Rodríguez ; contributors, Stuart Airlie [and eighteen others].

• Superior document: Medieval Mediterranean, Volume 101
• TeilnehmendeR: Hudson, John, 1962-; Rodríguez López, Ana,; Airlie, Stuart,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• שנת הוצאה לאור: 2014
• שפה: English
• סדרה: Medieval Mediterranean ; Volume 101.
• תיאור פיזי: 1 online resource (455 p.)
• הערות: Description based upon print version of record.

Diverging Paths? investigates an important question, to which the answers must be very complex: “why did certain sorts of institutionalisation and institutional continuity characterise government and society in Christendom by the later Middle Ages, but not the Islamic world, whereas the reverse end-...