Despite their shared themes and the fact that the large takeaway points are the- matically linked, the power of their connection becomes clear largely thanks to Lloyd’ s excellent introduction. Without that guiding framework, it would be quite difficult to get the macrolevel view of such wide-ranging essays. In part, this is due to the nature of the beast. Sensibility was a discourse that encompassed all elements of life in multiple European countries for the better part of a century. This limitation is one of which the editor is aware, and as he acknowledges, “The task of reconstruction is not completed here, but it is my hope that this volume makes a contribution to the project by drawing atten- tion, in each of the chapters, to specific moments in the discourse of sensibility and by foregrounding, as a collection, the interdisciplinary, international, and inter-textual nature of the knowing body ” (20). Limitations aside, this volume offers a strong collection of essays that succinctly and clearly articulates the key features of what has been a highly disputed discourse. Carolyn Purnell, Illinois Institute of Technology Christopher I. Beckwith. Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. Pp. xvii+211. $29.95 (cloth). Much of what has gone under the name “ comparative philosophy” in the last 70 years or so compares the content of philosophical texts in two or more traditions. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to the structure of philosophical and scientific texts across diverse traditions, which is just what Christopher Beckwith does here. This interdisciplinary book should be of in- terest to scholars in a variety of fields, including the history and philosophy of science, Asian studies, medieval European philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Buddhist philosophy, and the history of ideas. Beckwith ’ s thesis is that the “ recursive argument method” and the institu- tion of the college were developed in ancient Buddhist Central Asia and then transmitted, via Islamic cultures, into twelfth- and thirteenth-century Western Europe, where this method and institutional structure became the basis for the development of a “ full scientific culture. ” Beckwith sketches his argument in chapter 1 (“Introduction ”) and then moves on to a detailed treatment of what he calls the recursive argument structure in chapter 2 (“The Recursive Argument Method of Medieval Science”). This argument method has also Book Reviews | SPRING 2015 201