Birte Kristiansen wrote a new post, Curious Medieval Objects, part III , on the site Embedding Conquest on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 1 day ago
We continue our material objects blog with a third and final episode. So far, we have encountered a gravestone, a bone document, a cloak and a plaque with an inscription. All those objects showed multiple cu […]
Birte Kristiansen wrote a new post, Curious medieval objects, part II, on the site Embedding Conquest on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
Here we continue our series on curious medieval objects that attracted our attention and that we enjoy using for teaching. This time inscriptions are central. Again if we look at these texts within their material […]
Birte Kristiansen wrote a new post, Curious medieval objects, part 1, on the site Embedding Conquest on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
A while ago one of our team members, Ed Hayes, asked us an interesting question concerning material culture from the medieval Middle East. In order to prepare a lecture for undergraduate students, he wanted us to […]
Birte Kristiansen created the event on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Birte Kristiansen wrote a new post, Religious extremism is not limited to Islam or to the present. , on the site Embedding Conquest on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
By Said Reza Huseini
This blog from our Emco member Reza Huseini, also appeared on the Leiden Islam BlogThe latest wave of Islam-inspired violence in Europe, makes Islamic extremism seem like a se […]
Birte Kristiansen wrote a new post, The Idea and Practice of Justice represented in Bactrian Documents, on the site Embedding Conquest on Humanities Commons 3 months, 4 weeks ago
By Said Reza Huseini
This text first appeared in AIS Newsletter | Volume 41, Number 2 | October 2020
What do we know about the idea and practice of justice in Bactria in late antiquity? The short answer […]
Birte Kristiansen wrote a new post, Fighting for wealth, power and prestige: Elites in the Early Muslim Caliphate, on the site Embedding Conquest on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week ago
By Alon Dar
Patricians, upper stratum, ruling class, notables, and elite. These are only some of the terms that we come across when reading about the upper classes in the Medieval Caliphate. But does it make […]
Birte Kristiansen wrote a new post, Cooperating on Contesting Empires, on the site Embedding Conquest on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
On September 17 and 18, 2020 we as EMCO Team organized our first online conference: Contesting Empires: Sogdiana, Bactria and Gandhara between the Sasanian empire, the Tang dynasty and the Muslim Caliphate […]
Birte Kristiansen created the event Conference: Poetry as History on Humanities Commons 6 months ago
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