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BOOK REVIEWS Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750. Edited by Nicola Di Cosmo and Michael Maas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 504 pp., 9 maps, 39 illustrations, bibliography, index. Hardback US $145, ISBN 978-1-107-09434-5. Reviewed by Barry CUNLIFFE, University of Oxford The publication of Peter Brown’s seminal the Abbasids and the defeat of the Tang army work, The World of Late Antiquity, in 1971 at the battle of the Talas river (A.D. 751), the changed the direction of the study of the fall of the Türk empire (A.D. 744), the An classical world by placing the Later Roman Lushan rebellion in China (A.D. 755), and the Empire in a much broader context, embracing multiple crises faced by the Byzantine world the forested zone of northern Europe, in the middle of the century including the loss Sasanian Iran, the early Arab Caliphate, and of its foothold in Italy. the polities of the Red Sea. By exploring the Eurasia in Late Antiquity was, the editors complex networks of connectivity that bound claim, “a space full of new actors, new beliefs these disparate peoples together, Brown and new political structures with their own
Asian Perspectives – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Apr 28, 2020
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