1st Edition

Routledge Revivals: Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine (2006) An Encyclopedia

Edited By Thomas Glick, Steven J. Livesey, Faith Wallis Copyright 2005
624 Pages
by Routledge

624 Pages
by Routledge

624 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 2005, this encyclopedia demonstrates that the millennium from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance was a period of great intellectual and practical achievement and innovation. In Europe, the Islamic world, South and East Asia, and the Americas, individuals built on earlier achievements, introduced sometimes radical refinements and laid the foundations for modern... Read more

Introduction; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Alphabetical List of Entries; Entries by Theme; Entries A-Z; Index

Biography

Thomas F. Glick  is an American academic who taught in the departments of history and gastronomy at Boston University from 1972 to 2012. He served as the history department's chairperson from 1984 to 1989, and again from 1994 to 1995. He has also been the director of the Institute for Medieval History at Boston University since 1998