The long seventh century : continuity and discontinuity in an age of transition / edited by Alessandro Gnasso, Emanuele E. Intagliata, Thomas J. MacMaster and Bethan N. Morris.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Gnasso, Alessandro, 1978- editor.

Intagliata, Emanuele Ettore, editor.

MacMaster, Thomas J., 1971- editor.

Morris, Bethan N., editor.

EBSCOhost.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Conference Name:

Seventh Century Colloquium (2013 : University of Edinburgh)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seventh century--Congresses.

Seventh century.

Social change--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Social change.

Continuity--Social aspects--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Continuity.

Social aspects.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 315 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Bern : Peter Lang, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This volume represents a selection of papers presented at the 2013 Edinburgh Seventh Century Colloquium, showcasing the latest scholarship from a rising generation of academics. The volume traverses the globe from Iran to the Atlantic and from Sweden to the Sahara and ranges from the establishment of the early Islamic state to the beginnings of English Christianity. Topics include the transmission of high culture across time, settlement patterns in a rapidly changing world and the formation of new and emerging identities. The essays also bring into dialogue a wide range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, including archaeology, literature, history, art, papyrology and economics. Together, they generate valuable new insights into the still uncharted territories of the long seventh century. Book jacket.

Contents:

Why the seventh century? : the problem of periodization across cultures / Thomas J. MacMaster

Sutton Hoo and Sweden revisited / Alex Woolf

Kings without faces : an examination of the visual evidence for kingship in the seventh century / Heidi Stoner

The early English cult of saints in long-term perspective / Austin Mason

Approaches to the Frankish community in the Chronicle of Fredegar and Liber historiae Francorum / Richard Broome

The periphery during the seventh century : the rise of a new landscape within the core of the Alps : climate change, land use and the arrival of Lombards in the eastern Trentino, Northern Italy (6th-7th century AD) / Paolo Forlin

The development of diplomatic contacts and exchange between the Byzantine Empire and the Frankish kingdoms until the early eighth century / Jörg Drauschke

When the East came to the West : the seventh century in the Vega of Granada (south-east Spain) : Visigoths, Byzantines, and Muslims / José Cristóbal Carvajal López, Julio Miguel Román Punzón, Miguel Jiménez Puertas, Javier Martínez Jiménez

From early Byzantium to the Middle Ages at Sagalassos / Ine Jacobs

Continuity and discontinuity in seventh century Sicily : rural settlement and economy / Giuseppe Cacciaguerra, Antonino Facella, Luca Zambito

Islamic conquest, territorial reorganization and empire formation : a study of seventh century movements of population in the light of Egyptian papyri / Marie Legendre

Sons of the Muhājirūn : some comments on Ibn al-Zubayr and legitimizing power in seventh century Islamic history / Ryan J. Lynch

Irrigation in Khuzistan after the Sasanians : continuity, decline, or transformation? / Mehrnoush Soroush

Evaluating the "Edinburgh Seventh Century Colloquium" experience / Emanuele E. Intagliata, Bethan N. Morris.

Notes:

Papers from the Seventh Century Colloquium held at the University of Edinburgh in May 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

3035306869

9783035306866

Publisher Number:

99962289324

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.