Eurasian empires in antiquity and the early Middle Ages : contact and exchange between the Graeco-Roman world, Inner Asia and China

The great empires of the vast Eurasian continent have captured the imagination of many. Awe-inspiring names such as ancient Rome, Han and Tang China, Persia, Assyria, the Huns, the Kushans and the Franks have been the subject of countless scholarly books and works of literature. However, very rarely...

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Autres auteurs : Kim Hyun Jin (Éditeur scientifique), Vervaet Frederik Juliaan (Éditeur scientifique), Adalı Selim Ferruh (Éditeur scientifique)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Eurasian empires in antiquity and the early Middle Ages : contact and exchange between the Graeco-Roman world, Inner Asia and China / edited by Hyun Jin Kim, Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, Selim Ferruh Adalı
Publié : Cambridge, New York : Cambridge University Press , 2017
Description matérielle : x1 vol. (vi-333 pages)
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Résumé : The great empires of the vast Eurasian continent have captured the imagination of many. Awe-inspiring names such as ancient Rome, Han and Tang China, Persia, Assyria, the Huns, the Kushans and the Franks have been the subject of countless scholarly books and works of literature. However, very rarely, if at all, have these vast pre-industrial empires been studied holistically from a comparative, interdisciplinary and above all Eurasian perspective. This collection of studies examines the history, literature and archaeology of these empires and others thus far treated separately as a single inter-connected subject of inquiry. It highlights in particular the critical role of Inner Asian empires and peoples in facilitating contacts and exchange across the Eurasian continent in antiquity and the early Middle Ages
Variantes de titre : Contact and exchange between the Graeco-Roman world, Inner Asia and China
Bibliographie : Notes bibliogr. Index
ISBN : 1-107-19041-X
978-1-107-19041-2