World History Sources Logo

Analyzing Documents
Go to Finding World History Go to Unpacking Evidence Go to Analyzing Documents Go to Teaching Sources Go to About
Material Culture/Objects

Resources
 


Author


Lawrence Butler is a medievalist with particular focus on Byzantine and Islamic art and architecture. A sometime resident of Istanbul, Turkey, he has published on the Hagia Sophia and related sixth-century structures, on the history of American scholarship in the eastern Mediterranean, and on the mosques of East Asia, Chinese art, and material culture of the Silk Road. His teaching interests span the medieval Eurasian world from Iceland to China, with special attention to trade connections, cultural property issues, and the Silk Road.

 

Go to Next Page

finding world history | unpacking evidence | analyzing documents | teaching sources | about

A project of the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University,
with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Gladys Delmas Foundation
© 2003-2005 center for history & new media