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The Rise, Glory, and Legacy of the Mataram Kingdom, 732-1016 CE

by Michael Staines
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798235847927
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Silverback Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Silverback Books
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  • Pages: 310
  • Original Price: USD 17.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 359 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Oceania

The Rise, Glory, and Legacy of the Mataram Kingdom, 732-1016 CE

The island of Java sits at the centre of the world. Ringed by smoking volcanoes whose ancient eruptions built one of the most fertile agricultural landscapes on earth, Java became, between the 8th and 11th centuries CE, the heartland of a civilization of extraordinary ambition and depth. The Mataram Kingdom, founded by the warrior-king Sanjaya in 732 CE and shaped by the creative tension between Shaivite Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism, produced some of the greatest monuments in human history. Borobudur, the largest Buddhist structure ever built, rises from the volcanic plain as a three-dimensional map of the cosmos in stone. Prambanan answers it across the same plain with towers soaring forty-seven metres toward heaven, their surfaces alive with the story of Rama and Sita carved by craftsmen of genius. But the Mataram Kingdom was far more than its temples. It was a sophisticated civilization of Sanskrit scholars and Old Javanese poets, of royal administrators and rice farmers, of queens who built temples and monks who preserved the wisdom of India in tropical manuscripts. This is the complete story of that civilization, its founding, its golden age, its catastrophic destruction, and the extraordinary legacy it left to the world.


Staines, Michael: - "

Michael Staines is an Irish historian and narrative nonfiction writer based in Australia, specialising in the ancient and medieval civilizations of Asia, the Middle East, and the broader Indian Ocean world. Born and educated in Ireland, he has spent decades exploring the histories of societies whose stories remain underrepresented in the English-language popular history tradition, from the volcanic kingdoms of classical Java to the dynastic struggles of early medieval Central Asia. His work is distinguished by its commitment to bringing rigorous historical scholarship to a general readership, combining deep archival and epigraphic research with the narrative clarity and human warmth that make the distant past genuinely vivid and accessible. His books span a remarkable range of subjects - ancient empires, medieval dynasties, maritime trade networks, and the extraordinary individuals who shaped them - and are united by a consistent belief that the stories of civilizations beyond the conventional Western canon deserve the same quality of attention and the same depth of engagement that the best popular history has always brought to the more familiar subjects of European and North American history. He publishes under multiple pen names across several historical specialisms. The Mataram Kingdom represents his most sustained engagement with the classical civilizations of Southeast Asia.

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