The emperor also sponsored large-scale scholarly projects to map the region, classify its peoples and write its definitive history.
In this brief review it is impossible to survey the scholarly details in sufficient depth to reveal the work's many strengths.
The authors look beyond familiar topics, question basic scholarly assumptions, and provide fresh perspectives on the monarchy's final decade.
Many prominent historians have addressed the issue in numerous books and in articles for both scholarly and more general audiences.
The linguistic conditioning of irregular verbs has received less scholarly attention than that of regular verbs, and studies usually consider the two categories together.
The debate as to who was responsible has never been satisfactorily resolved, partly because the battle has, amazingly, lacked a proper scholarly account.
He manages to present a memoir with popular appeal and scholarly rigour.
Finally, among the different manifestations of the scholarly habitus, it argues that the emotional detachment of learned men was itself a learned habit.