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Silk : trade and exchange along the silk roads between Rome and China in antiquity /
Already in Greek and Roman antiquity a vibrant series of exchange relationships existed between the Mediterranean regions and China, including the Indian subcontinents along well-defined routes we call the Silk Roads. Among the many goods that found their way from East to West and vice versa were gl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Philadelphia :
Oxbow Books,
2017.
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| Colección: | Ancient textiles series ;
29. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents; Preface; Introduction: Silk on the Silk Roads. Exchange between East and West in Antiquity Berit Hildebrandt ; 1. Looking towards the West
- how the Chinese viewed the Romans Liu Xinru; 2. Textiles and trade in South Asia during the Proto-Historic and Early Historic Period J. Mark Kenoyer; 3. Word migration on the Silk Road: the etymology of English silk and its congeners Adam Hyllested; 4. Silk production and trade in the Roman Empire Berit Hildebrandt.
- 5. Perspectives on the wide world of luxury in later Antiquity: silk and other exotic textiles found in Syria and Egypt Thelma K. Thomas 6. Decoration, astrology and empire: inscribed silk from Niya in the Taklamakan Desert Lillian Lan-ying Tseng; 7. Domestic, wild or unraveled? A study on tabby, taqueté and jin with spun silk from Yingpan, Xinjiang, third-fourth centuries Zhao Feng; 8. Chinese silks that circulated among peoples north and west: implications for technological exchange in early times? Angela Sheng.