Late Antiquity : Eastern Perspectives (Gibb Memorial Trust)

Bernheimer, Teresa (EDT)/ Silverstein, Adam J. (EDT)

Gibb Memorial Trust（2012/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 176 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780906094532
• DDC分類 935.07

Full Description

In the past four decades, as the field of late antique studies has begun to gather real momentum, scholars have debated the place of early Islam within the late antique world, particularly in relation to the issue of where and when 'Late Antiquity' ends. Although the Sasanian empire (in what is now modern Iran) became as powerful as the Byzantine empire, and the two often forged their characters and practices on the basis of their relations with each other, that has rarely translated into equal coverage for the eastern part of the late antique world in studies of the period. Late Antiquity: Eastern Perspectives aims to redress this balance and situate Iran with the broader world of this era. Eight papers serve as case studies for considering narratives and perspectives other than those emanating from Byzantium or, more generally, 'the West'. They demonstrate the potential of eastern source-material, particularly James Howard-Johnston's double-length article which produces a detailed reconstruction of the Sasanian army.

Contents

Introduction
Adam Silverstein and Teresa Bernheimer
A New Look At Mazdak
François de Blois
Buddhism As Ancient Iranian Paganism
Patricia Crone
Eastern Sources On The Roman And Persian War In The Near East 540-545
Michael R. Jackson Bonner
Collaborators And Dissidents: Christians In Sasanian Iraq In The Early Fifth Century CE
Philip Wood
The Khurasan Corpus Of Arabic Documents
Geoffrey Khan
The Late Sasanian Army
James Howard-Johnston
Urban Militias In The Eastern Islamic World (3rd-4th Centuries AH/9-10th Centuries CE)
Luke Treadwell
The Long Shadow Of Pre-Islamic Iranian Rulership: Antagonism Or Assimilation?
D. G. Tor