Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity (eBook, PDF)

Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250-750
Redaktion: Cosmo, Nicola Di

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108548106
• Artikelnr.: 53287733

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Historical Thresholds: 1. How the steppes became Byzantine: Rome
and the Eurasian Nomads in historical perspective Michael Maas; 2. The
relations between China and the steppe from the Xiongnu to the Türk Empire
Nicola Di Cosmo; 3. Sasanian Iran and the projection of power in Late
Antique Eurasia: competing cosmologies and topographies of power Matthew P.
Canepa; 4. Trade and exchanges along the silk and steppe routes in Late
Antique Eurasia Richard Lim; 5. Sogdian merchants and Sogdian culture on
the silk road Rong Xinjiang; 6. 'Charismatic' goods: commerce, diplomacy,
and cultural contacts along the silk road in Late Antiquity Peter Brown; 7.
The synthesis of the Tang Dynasty: the culmination of China's contacts and
communication with Eurasia Valerie Hansen; 8. Central Asia in the Late
Roman mental map, second to sixth centuries Giusto Traina; Part II.
Movements, Contacts, and Exchanges: 9. Genetic history and migrations in
Western Eurasia Patrick Geary; 10. Northern invaders: migration and
conquest as scholarly topos in Eurasian history Michael Kulikowski; 11.
Chinese and inner Asian perspectives on the history of the Northern
dynasties (386-589 CE) in Chinese historiography Luo Xin; 12. Xiongnu and
Huns: archaeological perspectives on a centuries-old debate about identity
and migration Ursula Brosseder; 13. Ethnicity and empire in the Western
Eurasian Steppes Walter Pohl; 14. The languages of Christianity on the silk
roads and the transmission of Mediterranean culture into central Asia Scott
Fitzgerald Johnson; 15. The spread of Buddhist culture to China between the
third and seventh century Max Deeg; 16. The circulation of astrological
lore and its political use between the Roman East, Sasanian Iran, Central
Asia, and the Türks Frantz Grenet; 17. Luminous markers: pearls and royal
authority in Late Antique Iran and Eurasia Joel Walker; Part III. Empires,
Diplomacy, and Frontiers: 18. Byzantium's Eurasian policy in the age of the
Türk Empire Mark Whittow; 19. Sasanian Iran and its northeastern frontier:
offense, defense, and diplomatic Daniel T. Potts; 20. Infrastructures of
legitimacy in inner Asia: the Early Türk Empires Michael R. Drompp; 21. The
stateless Nomads of Central Eurasia Peter B. Golden; 22. Aspects of elite
representation among the sixth- to seventh-century Türks Sören Stark; 23.
Patterns of Roman diplomacy with Iran and the steppe peoples Ekaterina
Nechaeva; 24. Collapse of a Eurasian hybrid: the case of the northern Wei
Andrew Eisenberg; 25. Ideological interweaving in Eastern Eurasia:
simultaneous kingship and dynastic competition Jonathan Karam Skaff; 26.
Followers and leaders in northeastern Eurasia, ca. seventh to tenth
centuries Naomi Standen; Epilogue Averil Cameron.