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Cultural encounters on Byzantium's Northern Frontier, c. AD 500-700 : coins, artifacts and history

Gândilă, Andrei, author

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\"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.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Coins, Byzantine Lower Danube River Valley. / Lower Danube River Valley Antiquities, Byzantine. / Lower Danube River Valley Commerce History To 1500. / Byzantine Empire History 527-1081. / Byzantine Empire History To 527.
• ISBN: 9781108470421, 1108470424

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DR49.24.G36 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE