狄宇宙等編《Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity 狄宇宙等編《Empires and Exchanges in

狄宇宙等編《Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity

Editors:

Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey

Michael Maas, Rice University, Houston

Publication planned for: January 2018

availability: Not yet published - available from January 2018

format: Hardback

isbn: 9781107094345

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.

Editors

Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey

Nicola Di Cosmo is the Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. He has held positions at the University of Cambridge, Harvard University, and Canterbury University in New Zealand. His publications include Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History (Cambridge, 2002), Manchu-Mongol Relations on the Eve of the Quing Conquest (2003), The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age (Cambridge, 2009), Warfare in Inner Asian History (500–1800) (2002), and Military Culture in Imperial China (2011).

Michael Maas, Rice University, Houston

Michael Maas is the William Gaines Twyman Professor of History at Rice University, Houston, where he also directs the Program in Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations. A former Director in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, he has published widely in late antique history, including Exegesis and Empire in the Early Byzantine Mediterranean. Junillus Africanus and the Instituta Regularia Divinae Legis (2003) and The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila (Cambridge, 2014).

Contributors

Michael Maas, Nicola Di Cosmo, Matthew P. Canepa, Richard Lim, Rong Xinjiang, Peter Brown, Valerie Hansen, Giusto Traina, Patrick Geary, Michael Kulikowski, Luo Xin, Ursula Brosseder, Walter Pohl, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Max Deeg, Frantz Grenet, Joel Walke, Mark Whittow, Daniel T. Potts, Michael R. Drompp, Peter B. Golden, S?ren Stark, Ekaterina Nechaeva, Andrew Eisenberg, Jonathan Karam Skaff, Naomi Standen, Averil Cameron

Table of Contents

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 / S?ren 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.

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