Sasanian Persia : : Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia /

Sasanian Persia : : Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia / / Eberhard Sauer.

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Details Persia’s growing military and economic power in the late antique worldThe Sasanian Empire (3rd–7th centuries) was one of the largest empires of antiquity, stretching from Mesopotamia to modern Pakistan and from Central Asia to the Arabian Peninsula. This mega-empire withstood powerful oppone...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
VerfasserIn:
Sauer, Eberhard,
MitwirkendeR:
Amiri, Sarieh,
Andrieu-Ponel, Valérie,
Ball, Warwick,
Beaulieu, Jacques-Louis de,
Callieri, Pierfrancesco,
Davoudi, Hossein,
Decruyenaere, Delphine,
Djamali, Morteza,
Fathi, Homa,
Greenwood, Tim,
Hopper, Kristen,
Howard-Johnston, James,
Khazaeli, Roya,
Lawrence, Dan,
Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd,
Mashkour, Marjan,
Mohaseb, Azadeh,
Morley, Craig,
Naderi-Beni, Abdolmajid,
Nokandeh, Jebrael,
Patterson, Lee E.,
Pitskhelauri, Konstantin,
Ponel, Philippe,
Rekavandi, Hamid Omrani,
Sauer, Eberhard W.,
Sheikhi, Shiva,
Shumilovskikh, Lyudmila,
Simpson, John,
Wilkinson, Tony J.,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia : ESAP
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 84 B/W illustrations 5 B/W tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I. Surplus Production, Urban Growth and the Environment
  • 2. Sasanian Cities: Archaeological Perspectives on the Urban Economy and Built Environment of an Empire
  • 3. Palaeoecological Insights into Agri-Horti-Cultural and Pastoral Practices Before, During and After the Sasanian Empire
  • 4. Animal Exploitation and Subsistence on the Borders of the Sasanian Empire: From the Gorgan Wall (Iran) to the Gates of the Alans (Georgia)
  • Part II. Frontiers and Frontier Landscapes
  • 5. The Northern and Western Borderlands of the Sasanian Empire: Contextualising the Roman/Byzantine and Sasanian Frontier
  • 6. Connectivity on a Sasanian frontier: Route Systems in the Gorgan Plain of North-East Iran
  • 7. The Sasanian Empire and the East: A Summary of the Evidence and its Implications for Rome
  • Part III. Contested Territories and Cultural Contacts Between Persia and Rome
  • 8. Minority Religions in the Sasanian Empire: Suppression, Integration and Relations with Rome
  • 9. A Contested Jurisdiction: Armenia in Late Antiquity
  • 10. Cultural Contacts Between Rome and Persia at the Time of Ardashir I (c. ad 224–40)
  • Part IV. Imperial Power Balance and International Relations
  • 11. Innovation and Stagnation: Military Infrastructure and the Shifting Balance of Power Between Rome and Persia
  • 12. The Arabian Frontier: A Keystone of the Sasanian Empire
  • 13. The India Trade in Late Antiquity
  • Index

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