historiography

The materiality of writing has major implications for the practice of history...When you look at a ‘medieval’ Javanese manuscript, it is almost always an 18th or 19th century copy of a copy of a copy ... and so on.

Medieval artefacts and manuscripts are explored by Alex West to give insight on the deep past of Southeast Asia.

Welcoming the University of Sydney's Southeast Asian history bloggers to New Mandala.