"This volume comprises the publication of a one-day conference held at the University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies) on 19th November 2005. The conference carried the same title as this volume..."--P. 1. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction / Anthea Harris -- Globalizing late antiquity : models, metaphors and the realities of long-distance trade and diplomacy / Ken Dark -- Using bracteates as evidence for long-distance contacts / Charlotte Behr -- The importance of Byzantine and Sasanian glass into China during the fourth to sixth centuries / Mei Ling Chen -- Menas ampullae : a case study of long-distance contacts / Susanne Bangert -- Ethiopian Christian material culture : the international context. Aksum, the Mediterranean and the Syriac worlds in the fifth to seventh centuries / Niall FInneran -- The limits of long-distance exchange : evidence from sixth-century Palaestina/Arabia / Kate da Costa -- Byzantine and oriental imports in the Merovingian Empire from the second half of the fifth to the beginnings of the eighth century / Jörg Drauschke -- Britain and China at opposite ends of the world? : archaeological methodology and long-distance contacts in the sixth century / Anthea Harris.
Series:
BAR international series ; 1644 Reading medieval studies ; v. 32
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