Evans, Helen C. ; Brandie Ratliff
Byzantium and Islam : Age of Transition.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, Yale University Press
2012,
cm.24,5x31,
pp.XIX, 332, illustrato a colori.
legatura editoriale cartonata con sopraccoperta figurata a colori.
This groundbreaking volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century. As the period opened, the Empire's southern provinces—the vibrant, diverse areas of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean—were at the crossroads of trade routes reaching from Spain to China. These regions experienced historic upheavals when their Christian and Jewish communities encountered the emerging Islamic world, and by the ninth...
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9780300179507
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