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Putting Knowledge to Practice: “Reading” Agricultural Terraces in Medieval Palestine
This project critically examines peasant knowledge and practice in land use in the medieval Levant through a combination of archaeological and textual
Visualizations of the Planets in the Graeco-Roman World (ca. 300 BCE-600 CE)
Using texts and images, this project explores the ways in which the planets were imagined and visually represented in the Graeco-Roman world in a diac
A Scholarly Way of Life in the Making, 1470–1630
How do ways of life emerge, and how are they transformed? Ways of life are essential to any historical description of a given society, yet we have har
The Logic of Experience in the Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Tradition
Following Arabic interpretations of Aristotelian logic, medieval Hebrew logicians considered things apprehended directly by the senses or by the intel
The Merton Project: Science and Political Regimes in the 21st Century
“The persistent development of science occurs only in societies of a certain order, subject to a peculiar complex of tacit presuppositions and institu
The “Persian Wheel” and Its Impact in 16th to 18th Century India
In India, the Persian wheel or saqiya was probably imported around the thirteenth or fourteenth century in the wake of the Turkish conquests of northe
Medieval Ingenium: Knowledge, Experience, and Technology
This project considers twelfth- and thirteenth-century Western European thought and literature, in particular machines as models for thought and the r
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
At the core of my various research interests lies the desire to understand how nature has been h...
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Michael Puett
Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology at Harvard Un...
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Mikkel Rønnow Mouritzen
Mikkel Rønnow Mouritzen is a PhD fellow at Roskilde University Department of Social Sciences and...
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