The Monotheisation of Pontic-Caspian Eurasia
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-7811-3 (ISBN)
What is the line between the ancient and medieval worlds? 330? 476? 800? Most historians acknowledge that these are arbitrary distinctions, but they remain nevertheless, taking on lives of their own. Alex Feldman is challenging us to see them as the same world, except for the imposition of a given monotheism.
In this process, he studies top-down, monotheistic conversions in Western Eurasia and their respective mythologisations, preserved both textually and archaeologically, serving as the foundation of recognisable state-formation.
Applying this idea to Byzantium’s policies around the Black and Caspian Seas, he reveals how what we today call the ‘Migration-Age’ continued perpetually up to the Mongolian invasions and perhaps later. This book enhances our understanding, not only of Western history, but presents it in the context of global monotheisation.
Alex M. Feldman is a professor at the College of International Studies of Madrid
Contents List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements
A Proposition
1 The Monotheisation of Khazaria 1.1 The Earliest Textual Sources on Khazaria 1.2 The Advent of Khazarian Judaism 1.3 Monotheisation and Sedentarisation in Khazaria 1.4 Approximate Conclusions
2 A Commonwealth Inchoate 2.1 Khazaria’s Decline and Disappearance 2.2 Reinterpreting Northern Peoples in the DAI
3 Case Studies of Monotheisation in 8-13th-century Pontic-Caspian Eurasia 3.1 Volga Bulgaria 3.2 Magyars, Pečenegs and Cumans 3.3 Rus’: Byzantine Christianisation 4 Monotheisation in Metal
A Reassessment of Civilisation in Pontic-Caspian Eurasia
Part 1 Monotheisation Revisited
Part 2 Periodisation and Civilisation
Appendices Appendix 1 Gog and Magog’s association with Khazaria Appendix 2 Steppe Nomadism & Gumilëv’s Eurasian ideology Appendix 3 The Khazar-Ashkenazi Descent Theory
Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary and Archaeological Literature Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.07.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Byzantine Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 black and white illustration, 1 black and white map |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-7811-5 / 1474478115 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-7811-3 / 9781474478113 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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