TY  - BOOK
AU  - DI COSMO, Nicola
AU  - MAAS, Michael
TI  - Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250-750
SN  - 9780000000000
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - China--History--221 B.C.-960 A.D
KW  - Commerce--History--To 1500
KW  - Eurasia--History--To 1500
KW  - Intercultural communication--Eurasia--History--To 1500
KW  - Middle East--History--To 622
KW  - Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
N1  - Introduction / Nicola Di Cosmo and Michael Maas -- 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 CE -- Giusto traina central asia in the late roman mental map, second to sixth centuries / Valerie Hansen -- Genetic History and Migrations in Western Eurasia, 500-1000 / Patrick J. Geary -- Northern Invaders: Migration and Conquest as Scholarly Topos in Eurasian History / Michael KulikowsKi -- Chinese and Inner Asian Perspectives on the History of the Northern Dynasties (386-589 CE) in Chinese Historiography / Luo Xin -- Xiongnu and Huns: Archaeological Perspectives on a Centuries-Old Debate about Identity and Migration / Ursula 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 Century / Max Deeg -- The Circulation of Astrological Lore and Its Political Use between the Roman East, Sasanian Iran, Central Asia, and the Turks / Frantz Grenet -- Luminous Markers: Pearls and Royal Authority in Late Antique Iran and Eurasia / Joel Walker -- Byzantium's Eurasian Policy in the Age of the Turk 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 Turks / Soren 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
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