Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800-1600
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Amsterdam University Press (NL) |
| ISBN-13 | 9789463720038 |
| Open Library | OL25795425W |
| Total publications | 3 |
| Coverage period | 2021 - 2025 |
| Language | EN |
Based on a collaboration between historians of Chinese and European politics, this volume offers a first comprehensive overview of current research on political communication in middle-period European and Chinese history. The chapters present new work on the sources and processes of political communication in European and Chinese history partly through juxtaposing and combining formerly separate historiographies and partly through direct comparison. Contrary to earlier comparative work on empires and state formation, which aimed to explain similarities and differences with encompassing models and new theories of divergence, the goal is to further conversations between historians by engaging regional historiographies from the bottom up.
Fragmentation and Financial Recentralization
In creating four General commands (zonglingsuo) between 1141 and 1145, at the end of the first Song-Jin war, the central government of the Song Empire hoped to marshal resources from the four areas along the new border while also controlling the military officials in charge of the armies. With the fragmentation of the monetary system, this financial organization resulted in a real autonomy of these strategic areas. Eventually, this reform induced…
Administrative Elites and the ‘First Phase of Byzantine Humanism’
This study investigates the interconnection between the adoption of the minuscule script for the transcription of Greek literary texts (one of the most significant innovations in the history of Byzantine book culture) and the huge cultural revival of ninth-century Byzantium. The focus lies on the social changes that occurred among the Constantinopolitan elites at the end of the eighth century as a result of the political events following the deat…
Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800-1600
Based on a collaboration between historians of Chinese and European politics, this volume offers a first comprehensive overview of current research on political communication in middle-period European and Chinese history. The chapters present new work on the sources and processes of political communication in European and Chinese history partly through juxtaposing and combining formerly separate historiographies and partly through direct comparis…
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Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800-1600
Based on a collaboration between historians of Chinese and European politics, this volume offers a first comprehensive overview of current research on political communication in middle-period European and Chinese history. The chapters present new work on the sources and processes of political communication in European and Chinese history partly through juxtaposing and combining formerly separate historiographies and partly through direct comparis…
Fragmentation and Financial Recentralization
In creating four General commands (zonglingsuo) between 1141 and 1145, at the end of the first Song-Jin war, the central government of the Song Empire hoped to marshal resources from the four areas along the new border while also controlling the military officials in charge of the armies. With the fragmentation of the monetary system, this financial organization resulted in a real autonomy of these strategic areas. Eventually, this reform induced…
Administrative Elites and the ‘First Phase of Byzantine Humanism’
This study investigates the interconnection between the adoption of the minuscule script for the transcription of Greek literary texts (one of the most significant innovations in the history of Byzantine book culture) and the huge cultural revival of ninth-century Byzantium. The focus lies on the social changes that occurred among the Constantinopolitan elites at the end of the eighth century as a result of the political events following the deat…