Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by Hy... - 9781107190412

Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle AgesContact and Exchange between the Graeco-Roman World, Inner Asia and China\nAuthor(s): Hyun Jin Kim, Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, Selim Ferruh Adali\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107190412, 978-1107190412\nSynopsis\nThe great empires of the vast Eurasian continent have captured the imagination of many. Awe-inspiring names such as ancient Rome, Han and Tang China, Persia, Assyria, the Huns, the Kushans and the Franks have been the subject of countless scholarly books and works of literature. However, very rarely, if at all, have these vast pre-industrial empires been studied holistically from a comparative, interdisciplinary and above all Eurasian perspective. This collection of studies examines the history, literature and archaeology of these empires and others thus far treated separately as a single inter-connected subject of inquiry. It hi.