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392 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691227962
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11 July 2023
Description
In the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a gift by the ʿAbbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid. This extraordinary moment was part of a much wider set of diplomatic relations between the Carolingian ...
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392 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691227962
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11 July 2023
Description
In the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a gift by the ʿAbbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid. This extraordinary moment was part of a much wider set of diplomatic relations between the Carolingian ...