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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
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
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
Michael Puett
Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology at Harvard Un...
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Time Bell in Northern Wei Luoyang: The Soundscape of a Nomadic Buddhist City
The Northern and Southern Dynasties (439–589 CE) were eras of innovation. During these eras, the cultural complex of agricultural area in East Eurasia
Chinese Theories, Korean Praxis, and Making the Most out of Nature: Cross-Border Science-Making in the Sinosphere
The project compares popular Chinese manuals in early Chosŏn with their Korean counterparts to throw light on three different processes of knowledge c
Mediterranean Nautical Cartography: Islands or Gateways of Knowledge?
This project investigates the complex syncretic nature of some of the few extant Maghrebi-Arabic and Ottoman-Turkish sea charts and atlases of the Med
Mattia Mantovani
Mattia Mantovani studied philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin, obtaining his PhD in 2...
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Ilaria Bultrighini
Ilaria Bultrighini studied Ancient History, Archaeology, and Classics at the Universities of Urb...
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