Cultural encounters on Byzantium's Northern Frontier, c. AD 500-700 : coins, artifacts and history /...
Cultural encounters on Byzantium's Northern Frontier, c. AD 500-700 : coins, artifacts and history /...
Cultural encounters on Byzantium's Northern Frontier, c. AD 500-700 : coins, artifacts and history / Andrei Gandila.
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Call Numbers
G 2019/0491
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Language
English
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Physical content
xix, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The Roman Frontier in Late antiquity -- Cultural diversity in the Danube Region and beyond: an archaeological perspective -- Christianity North of the Danube -- Contact and separation on the Danube Frontier -- The flow of Byzantine coins beyond the Frontier -- Putting the Danube into perspective: mo...
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
"In the sixth century, Byzantine emperors secured the provinces of the Balkans by engineering a frontier system of unprecedented complexity. Drawing on literary, archaeological, anthropological, and numismatic sources, Andrei Gandila argues that cultural attraction was a crucial component of the political frontier of exclusion in the northern Balka...
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Cultural encounters on Byzantium's Northern Frontier, c. AD 500-700 : coins, artifacts and history / Andrei Gandila.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-362) and index.
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©2018
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G 2019/0491
Record Identifier
74VKV08Oe5KZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV08Oe5KZ
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ISBN
1108470424 hardcover alkaline paper
9781108470421 hardcover alkaline paper
DDC
949.602
MMS ID
991024227512602626
