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 /

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Author / Creator:	Gândilă, Andrei, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	xix, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Coins, Byzantine -- Lower Danube River Valley. Byzantine antiquities. Coins, Byzantine. Commerce. Lower Danube River Valley -- Antiquities, Byzantine. Lower Danube River Valley -- Commerce -- History -- To 1500. Byzantine Empire -- History -- 527-1081. Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527. Byzantine Empire. Europe -- Lower Danube River Valley. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12736603

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ISBN:	9781108470421 1108470424 9781108455978 1108455972 9781108666374
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-362) and index.
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 Balkans. If left unattended, the entire edifice could easily collapse under its own weight. Through a detailed analysis of the archaeological evidence, the author demonstrates that communities living beyond the frontier competed for access to Byzantine goods and reshaped their identity as a result of continual negotiation, reinvention, and hybridization. In the hands of "barbarians" Byzantine objects, such as coins, jewelry, and terracotta lamps, possessed more than functional or economic value, bringing social prestige, conveying religious symbolism embedded in the iconography, and offering a general sense of sharing in the Early Byzantine provincial lifestyle."--Publisher's website.
Other form:	Online version: Gândilă, Andrei. Cultural encounters on Byzantium's Northern Frontier, c. AD 500-700. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2018] 9781108663748
Standard no.:	40028762701

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