Emerging Powers in Eurasian Comparison, 200-1100: Shadows of Empire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004518568)

This book compares the ways in which new powers arose in the shadows of the Roman Empire and its Byzantine and Carolingian successors, of Iran, the Caliphate and China in the first millennium CE. These new powers were often established by external military elites who had served the empire. They remained in an uneasy balance with the remaining empire, could eventually replace it, or be drawn into the imperial sphere again. Some relied on dynastic legitimacy, others on ethnic identification, while most of them sought imperial legitimation. Across Eurasia, their dynamic was similar in many respects; why were the outcomes so different?
Contributors are Alexander Beihammer, Maaike van Berkel, Francesco Borri, Andrew Chittick, Michael R. Drompp, Stefan Esders, Ildar Garipzanov, J?gen Paul, Walter Pohl, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Helmut Reimitz, Jonathan Shepard, Q. Edward Wang, Veronika Wieser, and Ian N. Wood.

Author: Walter Pohl
ISBN-10: 9004518568
ISBN-13: 9789004518568
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/11/2023
Pages: 468
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 0.80d