{"title":"The Transformation of Culture-Power in Indo-Europe, 1000-1300","authors":"S. Pollock","doi":"10.1163/1570067043077832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570067043077832","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102259,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115600296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Transformation of Europe: The Role of Scandinavia","authors":"S. Bagge","doi":"10.1163/1570067043077814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570067043077814","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102259,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127086200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural Crystallizations and World History: The Age of Ecumenical Renaissances","authors":"B. Wittrock","doi":"10.1163/1570067043077779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570067043077779","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102259,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127481300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Change and Contained Transformations: Warriors and Merchants in Japan, 1000-1300","authors":"Mikael S. Adolphson","doi":"10.1163/1570067043077850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570067043077850","url":null,"abstract":"Early eleventh century Japan was ruled by a group of aristocratic elites centered in and around Kyoto. Substantial social and economic changes took place during the subsequent three centuries as a result of the privatization of government that the Kyoto elites themselves had initiated. But these changes, which are most aptly represented by the rise of the warrior class and the mercantilization of the economy, were remarkably slow despite their internal forces. The elites’ ability to coopt and contain these trends secured their survival for an extraordinarily long time, while delaying developments that in hindsight may seem inevitable. The warrior class only came to prominence in the mid-fourteenth century, and the merchant class was contained and controlled for even longer. In comparison to other cultures, the flexibility and the inclusiveness of the Japanese political system are particularly noteworthy. In early eleventh century Japan, the prominent Fujiwara no Michinaga boldly proclaimed; This world, I think, Is indeed my world, Like the full moon I shine, Uncovered by any cloud!1 To be sure, for the nobles of ancient Kyoto, there appears to have been few things troubling their way of life, for the early eleventh century is Medieval 10,1-3_f13_309-337 11/4/04 2:47 PM Page 309","PeriodicalId":102259,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131127505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mongol Transformation: From the Steppe to Eurasian Empire","authors":"M. Biran","doi":"10.1163/1570067043077869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570067043077869","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the rise of the Mongol Empire in its Inner Asian context, looking for evolutionary versus revolutionary features of the Mongol imperial enterprise. It then assesses the Mongol impact on Eurasia from three angles: the Mongol contributions to Eurasian integration; their impact on the Eurasian geo-political balance; and the long-term impact of their statecraft on the different regions over which they ruled. What event or occurrence has been more notable than the beginning of the government of Chinggis Khan, that it should be considered a new era? (Rashìd al-Dìn)2 The Mongol conquests have been defined as the last chapter of the Eurasian transformations of the tenth-thirteenth centuries. Yet with the same, or even better, justification they can also be regarded as the first chapter of a new era, perhaps the early-modern one.3 Certainly the impact of the Mongol period was strongly felt in the post-thirteenth century world as well. Before addressing the issue of Mongol legacy on Eurasia, however, I will analyze the Inner Asian background of the Medieval 10,1-3_f14_338-361 11/5/04 8:04 PM Page 339 Downloaded from Brill.com03/14/2019 11:47:37PM via free access","PeriodicalId":102259,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries","volume":"92 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114045340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eurasian Transformations of the Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries: The View from Song China, 960-1279","authors":"P. Smith","doi":"10.1163/1570067043077751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570067043077751","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102259,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129319368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Transformation of Europe as a Eurasian Phenomenon","authors":"Moore","doi":"10.1163/1570067043077760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570067043077760","url":null,"abstract":"That the period c. 1000-1300 CE was one of transformation in Europe, amounting to “the birth of Europe”, is widely agreed among specialists in the region. The present paper argues not only that this transformation can be described in terms analogous to those held to amount to the “Axial Age” around 500 BCE or the “cultural constitution of modernity” around 1800, but that comparable transformations can be discerned in the other literate civilizations of Eurasia at the same epoch. It maintains, however, that these transformations were precipitated not by contacts between the civilizations, but by internal developments within each of the civilizations, arising from common exposure to the social and economic consequences of intensive economic growth, in particular as they affected the position and influence of the clerical elites. This common transformation has been less noticed and is more difficult to describe than those of the “Axial Age” or “modernisation” because the contrasting responses of the respective elites to these challenges sharpened the social, cultural and political differences between the civilizations and set them on diverging historical trajectories: its leading characteristic and consequence, therefore, was differentiation, rather than integration or homogenization. The recognition of the emergence of Latin Christendom—to which western historians often refer as “medieval civilization”—as a distinctive artefact of the eleventh and twelfth centuries is relatively recent and not wholly uncontroversial, a piecemeal achievement of twentieth-century historiography.2 Regional specialists naturally describe the changes which Medieval 10,1-3_f5_74-98 11/4/04 6:57 PM Page 77","PeriodicalId":102259,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125586572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Making of a European Society: The Example of Sweden","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789047414674_010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047414674_010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102259,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130727420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}