This volume is a collection of papers originally delivered by an international group of researchers at a conference organized in April 2000 by Dr. F. J. Brüggemeier and Dr. Wolfgang Schenkluhn. The World in the Year 1000 is organized in four thematic sections covering five world regions: Europe, the Islamic world, India, China, and Mesoamerica. All contributions in this volume are original works by many of today's leading scholars. Unlike most works on pre-modern world history, which follow a thesis over time, this approach suggests that fruitful avenues for comparative work become possible by focusing on a single point in time.

Contributions by: : James Heitzman, Gerhard Jaritz, Heinz Grotzfeld, Ranabir Chakravarti, Mark Elvin, Ivan ?prajc, Heiko Steuer, Gerhard Hoffmann, Andreas Brockmann, Kenneth R. Hall, Ulrich Köhler, Leslie C. Orr, Krijnie Ciggaar, Tarif Khalidi, Billy Kee Long So, B.D Chattopadhyaya