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ISBN:
9781108663748
Content:
Reinterpretation of the Danube frontier in Late Antiquity, drawing on literary, archaeological, and numismatic sources
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Figures -- Illustration Credits -- Introduction -- 1 The Roman Frontier in Late Antiquity -- 1.1 The Frontier Question -- 1.2 Rome's Frontier on the Danube: Topos and Reality -- 2 Cultural Diversity in the Danube Region and Beyond: An Archaeological Perspective -- 2.1 The Cultural Background -- 2.2 Byzantine Imports and Imitations in Barbaricum -- 2.2.1 Amphorae -- 2.2.2 Lamps -- 2.2.2.1 Danubian Lamps -- 2.2.2.2 Lamps from Asia Minor, North Africa, and Palestine -- 2.2.2.3 Handmade Lamps -- 2.2.3 Molds and Metallurgical Production -- 2.2.4 Brooches -- 2.2.4.1 Fibulae with Bent Stem -- 2.2.4.2 Cast Fibulae with Bent Stem -- 2.2.4.3 Bow Fibulae -- 2.2.5 Buckles -- 3 Christianity North of the Danube -- 3.1 Religious Life in Barbaricum After the Roman Retreat (ca. 275) -- 3.2 Sixth-Century Christianity: The Material Evidence -- 4 Contact and Separation on the Danube Frontier -- 5 The Flow of Byzantine Coins Beyond the Frontier -- 5.1 General Remarks -- 5.2 The Lower Danube: The Land of Bronze -- 5.2.1 Reconstruction and the Age of Justinian (ca. 490-565) -- 5.2.2 Money, Warfare, and Collapse (ca. 565-680) -- 6 Putting the Danube into Perspective: Money, Bullion, and Prestige in Avaria and Transcaucasia -- 6.1 Transcaucasia: The Land of Silver -- 6.1.1 The Price of Diplomacy in Lazica and Iberia (ca. 522-562) -- 6.1.2 Wavering between Byzantium, Persia, and the Caliphate (ca. 562-670) -- 6.2 The Carpathian Basin: The Land of Gold -- 6.2.1 Gepids, Lombards, Herules and the Quest for Hegemony (ca. 488-568) -- 6.2.2 The Avar Pursuit of Byzantine Wealth (ca. 568-680) -- 7 Money and Barbarians: Same Coins, Different Functions -- 7.1 Coins Beyond Frontiers: The Use and Abuse of the Numismatic Evidence
Content:
7.2 New Barbarians: Primitive Cash and Non-Economic Value of Colonial Money -- 7.3 The Price of Money on the Northern Frontier of Byzantium -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108470421
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gandila, Andrei Cultural encounters on Byzantium's northern frontier, c. AD 500-700 Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781108470421
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Byzantinisches Reich
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Nordgrenze
;
Kulturaustausch
;
Münze
;
Artefakt
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Geschichte 500-700
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