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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kim, Hyun Jin, 1982- editor.

Vervaet, Frederik, editor.

Adalı, Selim Ferruh, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eurasia--History--To 1500.

Eurasia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 333 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The political organization of Steppe empires and their contribution to Eurasian interconnectivity : the case of the Huns and their impact on the Frankish West / Hyun Jin Kim

Tang China's horse power : the borderland breeding ranch system / Jonathan Skaff

Cimmerians and the Scythians : the impact of nomadic powers on the Assyrian Empire and the ancient Near East / Selim Ferruh Adal

Honour and shame in the Roman republic / Frederik Juliaan Vervaet

Honor and shame in Han China / Mark Lewis

Slavery and forced labor in early China and the Roman world / Walter Scheidel

Homer and the Shi Jing as imperial texts / Alexander Beecroft

The serpent from Persia - Manichaeism in Rome and China / Samuel Lieu

The Alans in the southern Caucasus? / Antonio Sagona, Claudia Sagona and Aleks Michalewicz

Greeks, Scythians, Parthians and Kushans in Central Asia and India / Osmund Bopearachchi

Enclosure sites, non-nucleated settlement strategies and political capitals in ancient Eurasia / Michelle Negus Cleary.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-12191-8

1-108-12071-7

1-108-12211-6

1-108-12231-0

1-108-12311-2

1-108-11586-1

1-108-12251-5