Gender in the early medieval world: East and West, 300-900

2005 ◽  
Vol 43 (02) ◽  
pp. 43-1177-43-1177
Keyword(s):  
Early Medieval ◽  
East And West

Adaptation and Assimilation of Buddhism in China as reflected in Monastic Architecture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Transformation Process ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Residential Design ◽  
Buddhist Temple ◽  
Chinese Architecture ◽  
Religious Architecture ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Monastic Architecture ◽  
East And West

This chapter takes Buddhist architecture as an example of the dynamic interchange between East and West and the compromise between the original Indian style and native Chinese architecture so as to help demonstrate the transformation process of Buddhism in China during the first through sixth centuries CE. This chapter tries to point out that early medieval Buddhist monasteries, particularly the official ones, were constructed following Indian and Central Asian designs. These foreign types of monasteries brought in a new kind of religious architecture to China, which was later fused into the preexisting architectural culture and evolved into the distinct layout of Buddhist temple adopting the traditional Chinese residential design. This is a concrete and material way to contribute to the understanding of the interaction between a new faith and an old society.

Piyut and Midrash

2013 ◽  
pp. 99-136
Author(s):  
Michael Fishbane
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
The Creation ◽  
East And West ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Land Of Israel ◽  
The Way

This chapter covers the phenomenon of piyut, which is one of the comprehensive designations of Jewish liturgical poetry and an archaeology of rabbinic tradition. The piyut's major classical and early post-classical creativity spans the fifth to eleventh centuries that originated in the Land of Israel and spread east and west. It mentions the work of Michel Foucault, ‘L'Archéologie du savoir’ and its methodological reflections on the complex relationships between the ‘things said’ in culture and the way their selection or re-combination organizes knowledge from a vast fund of data or the so-called cultural archive. The chapter uses Foucault's insights to clear some paths of approach to piyut. It also focuses on some of the ruptures and transformations of biblical and midrashic literature in the creation of liturgical epics in classical and early medieval piyut.

5. Strategies for survival

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Sarris
Keyword(s):  
Early Medieval ◽  
Fourth Crusade ◽  
Imperial Power ◽  
East And West

‘Strategies for survival’ outlines the effectiveness, pragmatism, and creativity of Byzantine statecraft from the 7th century through to the early 10th century, which saw the empire’s ability to surmount its early medieval crisis and begin to reassert imperial power to both east and west. The imperial authorities had managed to rapidly reorientate themselves in a fast-changing strategic landscape, and alter diplomatic and military priorities accordingly. The adoption of allies to contain or contest military reversals was key, as was the conversion to imperial Christianity of neighbouring peoples. The ‘Macedonian dynasty’ is explained along with the Christian Crusades against Islam, and the Fourth Crusade in 1204 that resulted in the sacking of Constantinople.

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