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1 online resource (xxxvii, 504 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction / Nicola Di Cosmo and Michael Maas -- part 1. Historical thresholds. How the steppes became Byzantine : Rome and the Eurasian nomads in historical perspective / Michael Maas -- The relations between China and the steppe from the Xiongnu to the Turk Empire / Nicola Di Cosmo -- Sasanian Iran and the projection of power in late antique Eurasia : competing cosmologies and topographies of power / Matthew P. Canepa -- Trade and exchanges along the Silk and steppe routes in late antique Eurasia / Richard Lim -- Sogdian merchants and Sogdian culture on the Silk Road / Rong Xinjiang -- "Charismatic" goods : commerce, diplomacy, and cultural contacts along the Silk Road in late antiquity / Peter Brown -- The synthesis of the Tang Dynasty : the culmination of China's contacts and communication with Eurasia, 310-755 / Valerie Hansen -- Central Asia in the late Roman mental map, second to sixth centuries / Giusto Traina -- part 2. Movements, contacts, and exchanges. Genetic history and migrations in western Eurasia, 500-1000 / Patrick J. Geary -- Northern invaders : migration and conquest as scholarly topoi in Eurasian history / Michael Kulikowski -- Chinese and inner Asian perspectives on the history of the Northern Dynasties (386-589) in Chinese historiography / Luo Xin -- Xiongnu and Huns : archaeological perspectives on a centuries-old debate about identity and migration / Ursula B. Brosseder -- Ethnicity and empire in the western Eurasian steppes / Walter Pohl -- The languages of Christianity on the Silk Roads and the transmission of Mediterranean culture into Central Asia / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson -- The spread of Buddhist culture to China between the third and seventh centuries / Max Deeg -- The circulation of astrological lore and its political use between the Roman East, Sasanian Iran, Central Asia, India, and the Türks / Frantz Grenet -- Luminous markers : pearls and royal authority in late antique Iran and Eurasia / Joel Walker -- part 3. Empires, diplomacy, and frontiers. Byzantium's Eurasian policy in the age of the Türk Empire / Mark Whittow -- Sasanian Iran and Its northeastern frontier : offense, defense, and diplomatic entente / Daniel T. Potts -- Infrastructures of legitimacy in inner Asia : the early Turk empires / Michael R. Drompp -- The stateless nomads of central Eurasia / Peter B. Golden -- Aspects of elite representation among the sixth- to seventh-century Türks / Sören Stark -- Patterns of Roman diplomacy with Iran and the steppe peoples / Ekaterina Nechaeva -- Collapse of a Eurasian hybrid : the case of the Northern Wei / Andrew Eisenberg -- Ideological interweaving in eastern Eurasia : simultaneous kingship and dynastic competition, 580-755 / Jonathan Karam Skaff -- Followers and leaders in northeastern Eurasia, ca. seventh to tenth centuries / Naomi Standen -- Epilogue / Averil Cameron |
| Summary |
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity offers an integrated picture of Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppes during a formative period of world history. In the half millennium between 250 and 750 CE, settled empires underwent deep structural changes, while various nomadic peoples of the steppes (Huns, Avars, Turks, and others) experienced significant interactions and movements that changed their societies, cultures, and economies. This was a transformational era, a time when Roman, Persian, and Chinese monarchs were mutually aware of court practices, and when Christians and Buddhists criss-crossed the Eurasian lands together with merchants and armies. It was a time of greater circulation of ideas as well as material goods. This volume provides a conceptual frame for locating these developments in the same space and time. Without arguing for uniformity, it illuminates the interconnections and networks that tied countless local cultural expressions to far-reaching inter-regional ones |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-486) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Intercultural communication -- Eurasia -- History -- To 1500
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Commerce -- History -- To 1500
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Commerce
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Intercultural communication
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Eurasia -- History -- To 1500
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Middle East -- History -- To 622.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090507
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Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115128
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China -- History -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024042
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Eurasia
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China
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Middle East
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Di Cosmo, Nicola, 1957- editor.
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Maas, Michael, 1951- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781316146040 |
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1316146049 |
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1107476127 |
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9781107476127 |
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