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East Rome, Sasanian Persia And the End of Antiquity: Historiographical And Historical Studies - Couverture rigide

Howard-Johnston, James

 
9780860789925: East Rome, Sasanian Persia And the End of Antiquity: Historiographical And Historical Studies
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0860789926 ISBN 13 : 9780860789925
Editeur : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006

Synopsis

The last, longest and most damaging of the wars fought between East Rome and Sasanian Persia (603-628) brought the classical phase of west Eurasian history to a dramatic close. Despite its evident significance, not least as the distant setting for Muhammad's prophetic mission, this last great war of antiquity attracted comparatively little scholarly attention until the last decades of the twentieth century. James Howard-Johnston's contributions to the subject, most of which were published in out-of-the-way places (one, that on al-Tabari, is printed for the first time), are brought together in convenient form in this volume. They strive to root history in close observation of landscape and monuments as well as careful analysis of texts. They explore the evolving balance of power between the two empires, look at events through Roman, Armenian and Arab eyes, and home in on the climax of the final conflict in the 620s.

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À propos de l'auteur

James Howard-Johnston is University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK.

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Éditeur
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0860789926
ISBN 13 
9780860789925
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
318
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