عنوان

Indo-Byzantine exchange, 4th to 7th centuries :

شماره

TLets619406

عنوان اصلي

Indo-Byzantine exchange, 4th to 7th centuries :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Darley, Rebecca R.

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

a global history

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Birmingham

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2014

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Thesis (Ph.D.)

امتياز متن

2014

متن يادداشت

This thesis uses Byzantine coins in south India to re-examine pre-Islamic maritime trade between the Mediterranean and south India. Analysis of historiographical trends, key textual sources (the Periplous of the Erythreian Sea and the Christian Topography, Book Eleven), and archaeological evidence from the Red Sea, Aksum, the Persian Gulf and India, alongside the numismatic evidence yields two main methodological and three historical conclusions. Methodologically, the multi-disciplinary tradition of Indo-Roman studies needs to incorporate greater sensitivity to the complexities of different evidence types and engage with wider scholarship on the economic and state structures of the Mediterranean and India. Furthermore, pre-Islamic Indo-Mediterranean trade offers an ideal locus for experimenting with a practical global history, particularly using new technologies to enhance data sharing and access to scholarship. Historically, this thesis concludes: first, that the significance of pre-Islamic trade between the Mediterranean and India was minimal for any of the participating states; second, that this trade should be understood in the context of wider Indian Ocean networks, connecting India, Sri Lanka and southeast Asia; third, that the Persian Gulf rather than the Red Sea probably formed the major meeting point of trade from east and west, but this is not yet demonstrable archaeologically, numismatically or textually.

موضوع مستند نشده

CC Archaeology ; D051 Ancient History ; DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World ; DS Asia

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Darley, Rebecca R.

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Birmingham

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y