The first section of this volume brings together five studies on the Mongol empire. The accent is on the ideology behind Mongol expansion, on the dissolution of the empire into a number of rival khanates, and on the relations between the Mongol regimes and their Christian subjects within and potenti...

This collection of Charles Burnett's articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working. The articles are arranged in roughly chronological order, beginning with the earliest known translations fr...

Nicholas Temperley has pioneered the history of popular church music in England, as expounded in his classic 1979 study, "The Music of the English Parish Church"; his Hymn Tune Index of 1998; and his magisterial articles in "The New Grove". This volume brings together fourteen shorter essays from va...