Early Tenth Century Java from the Inscriptions

Erscheinungsjahr 1984
ISBN: 978-90-6765-062-5
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 107

Reihe: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde

This book relates in particular to the Javanese inscriptions of the period A.D. 901-929, a time of special interest because of the transfer of royal government from Central to East Java. With the aid of inscriptions from this period, as well as before and after, it is possible to draw tentative conclusions which seek the explanation for this shift not so much in the area of political but of socio-economic history. This is the first study to pay attention to the role of socio-economic factors in early Javanese history.

Über Autor(innen)

Antoinette Barrett Jones (1939) was one of the first students of Indonesian and Malayan Students in Australia, and was inspired by the late F.H. van Naerssen to take up the specialized study of the inscriptions of early Java, leading to her Master of Arts degree from the University of Sidney in 1969. Continuing this interest in London under the supervision of J.G. de Casparis, she completed the PhD thesis which forms the basis of this book in 1976.