Abstract
This issue of the MHJ carries the Special Issue titled China, India and Iran: Scientific Exchange and Cultural Contact through the First Millennium CE, edited by Dr Sally K Church, University of Cambridge and Bill M Mak, University of Hong Kong.
The text of the fifteenth Medieval History Journal Lecture by Professor Innocent Pikirayi, Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies, University of Pretoria is also published here. We at the MHJ take this opportunity to thank Professor Pikirayi for graciously accepting our invitation to deliver this lecture. The lecture was delivered online. We thank Sage for helping us with the infrastructure for the virtual mode and generously supporting the MHJ Annual Lectures.