Screen LibraryEmerging powers in Eurasian comparison, 200-1100 : shadows of empire /
"This book compares the ways in which new powers arose in the shadows of the Roman Empire and its Byzantine and Carolingian successors, of Iran, the Caliphate and China in the first millennium CE. These new powers were often established by external military elites who had served the empire. The...
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Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This book compares the ways in which new powers arose in the shadows of the Roman Empire and its Byzantine and Carolingian successors, of Iran, the Caliphate and China in the first millennium CE. These new powers were often established by external military elites who had served the empire. They remained in an uneasy balance with the remaining empire, could eventually replace it, or be drawn into the imperial sphere again. Some relied on dynastic legitimacy, others on ethnic identification, while most of them sought imperial legitimation. Across Eurasia, their dynamic was similar in many respects; why were the outcomes so different?"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 451 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789004518568 9004518568 |
| Index Number: | CB353 |
| CLC: | K13 |
| Call Number: | K13/E535 |
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Machine generated contents note: The Later Roman Empire and the Post-Roman Kingdoms in the West -- When Did the West Roman Empire Fall? / The Role of Peoples in the Emergence of the Post-Roman Kingdoms / In the Shadow of the Roman Empire: Layers of Legitimacy and Strategies of Legitimization in the Regna of the Early Medieval West / The Carolingian Empire and the Emerging Polities in Its Northern and Eastern Periphery -- When the Bavarians Became Bavarian The Potiticization of Ethnicity and Crystallization of Ethnic Identities in the Shadow of Carolingian Rule (8th to 9th Century) / Peripheral Polities North of the Carolingian Realm: The Regnum Danorum / Byzantium and Its Peripheral Powers -- The Lagoons as a Distant Mirror: Constantinople, Venice and the Italian Romania / Countering Byzantium's Shadow: Contrarianism among the Bulgars, Rus and Germans / Between Byzantium and the Islamic World -- Early Medieval Armenia between Empires (Fourth -- Eleventh Century CE): Dynamics and Continuities / Strategies of Legitimation in the Shadow of Empires: Byzantine-Turkish Contact Zones in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Asia Minor / The Abbasid Caliphate and the Formation of New Dynasties -- Communication between Centre and Periphery in the Early Fourth-/Tenth-Century Abbasid Empire / Local and Imperial Rule: Examples from Fars (9th -- 10th Centuries) / Medieval China and the Foreign Dynasties -- The Huai Frontier and the Ethnicization of Difference in Early Medieval China / `Cultural China' from the Eleventh Century: Legitimacy, Metanarrative and Historiography / In the Shadows of Empires: The T |