Between Rome and China history, religions and material culture of the Silk Road

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Körperschaft: International Union of Academies (BerichterstatterIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Lieu, Samuel N. C. (HerausgeberIn), Mikkelsen, Gunner B. (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Turnhout Brepols 2016
Schriftenreihe:Silk road studies 18
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Beschreibung:This book contains a key study on sericulture as well as on the conduct of the trade in silk between China and the Roman Near East using archaeological and literary evidence. 0The eight studies in this volume by established and emerging scholars range geographically and chronologically from the Greek Kingdom of Bactria of the 2nd century BCE to the Uighur Kingdoms of Karabalgasun in Mongolia and Qo?o in Xinjiang of the 8th-9th centuries CE. It contains a key study on sericulture as well on the conduct of the trade in silk between China and the Roman Near East using archaeological as well as literary evidence. Other topics covered include Sogdian religious art, the role of Manichaeism as a Silk Road religion par excellence, the enigmatic names for the Roman Empire in Chinese sources and a multi-lingual gazetteer of place- and ethnic names in Pre-Islamic Central Asia which will be an essential reference tool for researchers. The volume also contains an author and title index to all the Silk Road Studies volumes published up to 2014. The broad ranging theme covered by this volume should appeal to a wider public fascinated by the history of the Silk Road and wishing to be informed of the latest state of research. Because of the centrality of the topics covered by this study, the volume could serve as a basic reading text for university courses on the history of the Silk Road
Beschreibung:ix, 300 Seiten
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ISBN:9782503566696
978-2-503-56669-6