| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 211 pages) |
| Contents |
The recursive argument method of medieval science -- From college and universitas to university -- Buddhist Central Asian invention of the method -- Islamization in classical Arabic Central Asia -- Transmission to medieval Western Europe -- India, Tibet, China, Byzantium, and other control cases |
| Summary |
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 using the recursive argument method. This highly distinctive and unusual method of disputation was a core feature of medieval science, the predecessor of modern science. We know that the foundations of science were imported to Western Europe from the Islamic world, but until now the origins of such key elements of Islamic culture have been a mystery |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Science, Medieval.
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Academic disputations.
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Science -- Asia, Central -- History -- To 1500
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SCIENCE -- History.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Academic disputations
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Science
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Science, Medieval
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Central Asia
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1400845173 |
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9781400845170 |
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