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Embankments and Inundation in Bengal: An Early Colonial Transition 孟加拉的堤坝和洪水：早期殖民过渡

IF 0.5 2区历史学

MEDIEVAL HISTORY JOURNAL Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/0971945820966440

U. Bhattacharya

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Introduction 介绍

IF 0.5 2区历史学

MEDIEVAL HISTORY JOURNAL Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/0971945820956917

Prasannan Parthasarathi

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Alberic of Trois-Fontaines’ Genealogies

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MEDIEVAL HISTORY JOURNAL Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/0971945819848619

Antoni Grabowski

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Book review: Pankaj Jha, A Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century 书评:Pankaj Jha，《文学的政治史:Vidyapati和15世纪》

IF 0.5 2区历史学

MEDIEVAL HISTORY JOURNAL Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/0971945820970175

Tyler W. Williams

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East Asia’s Other New World, China and the Viceroyalty of Peru: A Neglected Aspect of Early Modern Maritime History 东亚的另一个新世界、中国与秘鲁总督：近代早期海事史被忽视的一面

IF 0.5 2区历史学

MEDIEVAL HISTORY JOURNAL Pub Date : 2020-05-11 DOI: 10.1177/0971945819895895

A. Schottenhammer

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Twelfth MHJ Annual Lecture 第十二届MHJ年度讲座

IF 0.5 2区历史学

MEDIEVAL HISTORY JOURNAL Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/0971945820918044

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Global Travel in the Late Middle Ages: The Eyewitness Account of Johann Schiltberger 中世纪晚期的全球旅行：约翰·席尔伯格的目击者记述

IF 0.5 2区历史学

MEDIEVAL HISTORY JOURNAL Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/0971945819895896

A. Classen

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Note Thanking Editors 感谢编辑

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MEDIEVAL HISTORY JOURNAL Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/0971945820911734

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Sufis or Demons: Looking at the Social Context of Siyah Qalam’s Paintings 苏菲还是魔鬼：从卡拉姆绘画的社会语境看

IF 0.5 2区历史学

MEDIEVAL HISTORY JOURNAL Pub Date : 2020-04-28 DOI: 10.1177/0971945819895412

Elham Shams, Farzaneh Farrokhfar

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Fortune’s Wheel and God’s Whip: Religious Attitudes and Secular Power in Hugo Falcandus’s Liber de Regno Siciliae 命运之轮与上帝之鞭：法尔坎多斯《西西里自由》中的宗教态度与世俗权力

IF 0.5 2区历史学

MEDIEVAL HISTORY JOURNAL Pub Date : 2020-04-28 DOI: 10.1177/0971945819865232

Giulia Bellato

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