Название: Cultural Encounters on Byzantium's Northern Frontier, c. AD 500-700: Coins, Artifacts and History
Автор: Andrei Gandila
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108470424
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 394
Размер: 10,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
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 Balkans.