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A. J. West , August 15th, 2017
It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog, but I wanted to let any readers/subscribers know that I’m now writing on Medium under the name Medieval Indonesia (twitter…
A. J. West , March 8th, 2017
Halo semua! It’s been a while. Things have been a bit hectic. I got married in Gibraltar last August and moved to the Netherlands with my wife,…
A. J. West , March 8th, 2017
Halo semua! It’s been a while. Things have been a bit hectic. I got married in Gibraltar last August and moved to the Netherlands with my wife,…
A. J. West , February 18th, 2016
I’m in two minds about Tim Hannigan’s A Brief History of Indonesia (2015). Part of my brain is cruelly happy that Hannigan’s book is so deficient in covering…
A. J. West , February 18th, 2016
I’m in two minds about Tim Hannigan’s A Brief History of Indonesia (2015). Part of my brain is cruelly happy that Hannigan’s book is so deficient in covering…
A. J. West , February 18th, 2016
I’m in two minds about Tim Hannigan’s A Brief History of Indonesia (2015). Part of my brain is cruelly happy that Hannigan’s book is so deficient in covering…
A. J. West , December 8th, 2015
You may remember that I’ve been working on my Jawi script – the Perso-Arabic-based writing system used by Malay speakers to write their language from the fourteenth…
A. J. West , December 8th, 2015
You may remember that I've been working on my Jawi script – the Perso-Arabic-based writing system used by Malay speakers to write their language from the fourteenth…
A. J. West , December 8th, 2015
You may remember that I’ve been working on my Jawi script – the Perso-Arabic-based writing system used by Malay speakers to write their language from the fourteenth…
A. J. West , December 6th, 2015
Antonio Pigafetta visited Borneo in July 1521 during the first circumnavigation of the world, immediately after Magellan’s fatal encounter with the Filipino chieftain Lapu-Lapu at Mactan in…
A. J. West , December 5th, 2015
Antonio Pigafetta visited Borneo in July 1521 during the first circumnavigation of the world, immediately after Magellan's fatal encounter with the Filipino chieftain Lapu-Lapu at Mactan i…
A. J. West , December 5th, 2015
Antonio Pigafetta visited Borneo in July 1521 during the first circumnavigation of the world, immediately after Magellan’s fatal encounter with the Filipino chieftain Lapu-Lapu at Mactan in…
A. J. West , November 27th, 2015
We’ve looked at a few of the marvels recorded in Polo’s Devisement and Odoric’s Relatio over the past couple of weeks. It’s important to bear in mind…
A. J. West , November 27th, 2015
We've looked at a few of the marvels recorded in Polo's Devisement and Odoric's Relatio over the past couple of weeks. It's important to bear in mind…
A. J. West , November 27th, 2015
We’ve looked at a few of the marvels recorded in Polo’s Devisement and Odoric’s Relatio over the past couple of weeks. It’s important to bear in mind…
A. J. West , November 12th, 2015
Yesterday afternoon I went to Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford to see the Byzantinist Peter Frankopan talk about his new book, The Silk Roads, which seems to be…
A. J. West , November 12th, 2015
Yesterday afternoon I went to Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford to see the Byzantinist Peter Frankopan talk about his new book, The Silk Roads, which seems to be…
A. J. West , November 12th, 2015
Yesterday afternoon I went to Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford to see the Byzantinist Peter Frankopan talk about his new book, The Silk Roads, which seems to be…
A. J. West , November 11th, 2015
In 1292, towards the end of his reign, Khubilai Khan sent a fleet of ships from Quanzhou in southern China to invade East Java, then governed…
A. J. West , November 11th, 2015
In 1292, towards the end of his reign, Khubilai Khan sent a fleet of ships from Quanzhou in southern China to invade East Java, then governed…
A. J. West , November 11th, 2015
In 1292, towards the end of his reign, Khubilai Khan sent a fleet of ships from Quanzhou in southern China to invade East Java, then governed…
A. J. West , February 7th, 2015
I'm learning classical Malay (that is to say, the language used in Melaka and the Malay world at the time of the Portuguese conquest) and I'm starting with…