Rulers, Warriors, Traders, Clerics - The Central Sahel and the North Sea, 800-1500

Zusatztext ...interesting volume...a welcome exercise in trying to extend intellectual horizons through comparative studies Klappentext What do we learn if we look in parallel at the past of two distinct parts of the world? A novel and stimulating approach, this volume compares the central Sahel of West Africa to Northern Europe to develop our understanding of what life was like for our medieval predecessors. Zusammenfassung What do we learn if we look in parallel at the past of two distinct parts of the world? A novel and stimulating approach, this volume compares the central Sahel of West Africa to Northern Europe to develop our understanding of what life was like for our medieval predecessors.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Haour, Anne (Lecturer in the Arts and Archaeology of Africa Haour, Haour Anne
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.12.2007
• EAN: 9780197264119
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726411-9
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 243 mm x 21 mm
• Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral F; British Academy Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral F
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Europe, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Africa / West, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, African History, Archaeology by period / region, West Africa, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, African history: pre-colonial period