Event



EALC Speakers' Colloquium

How to Write a Comprehensive History of Early Medieval Central Asia?
Etienne de la Vaissiere
- | Cherpak Lounge
5th floor, Williams Hall

The publication last year of Asie centrale 300-850 is an attempt to provide a total but detailed history of Early Medieval Central Asia, i.e. to deal in a few hundred pages with 9 million sq. km on more than 500 years with sources in 20 languages. Dr. de la Vaissiere will try to present some of the main results of the book but also the conceptual framework underlying it, as such a period and space cannot be dealt without making use of some clear overarching concepts, for fear of being lost in thousands of intricacies.