Ein neue Publikation:
Darley, Rebecca R.: Indo-Byzantine exchange, 4th to 7th centuries : a global history
Dissertation Birmingham 2014
Volltext: Indo-Byzantine exchange, 4th to 7th centuries: a global history - eTheses Repository
Aus der Zusammenfassung ein kleiner Auszug, wohl eine Gegenposition zu einigen Publikationen, die das in größerer Bedeutung gesehen haben:
"The final conclusion of a close examination of Byzantine trade with India is that the significance of this trade in volume or impact upon state structure or revenue should not be overestimated. Given the common, though not universal, tendency within Indo-Roman studies to seek to carve out a role of great importance for long-distance trade in the ancient world, it is useful to establish a verifiable perspective on the later phase of trade. Understanding the superficial, though not culturally unimportant role which trade between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean played also enables this section of the Byzantine economy to be integrated into wider studies of the movement of staples and locally manufactured products, which constituted the bulk of Late Antique exchange. While Indo-Byzantine exchange may not have had a major impact on the Byzantine economy, using it as a vantage point from which to re-evaluate texts dealing with late Roman attitudes towards the east, especially the Christian Topography, compared here for the first time directly with the Periplous of the Erythreian Sea, demonstrates how the christianisation of the Roman Empire altered conceptions of geography and space (at least for some authors) but did not fundamentally alter perceptions of India as the exotic and luxurious ‘other’."
Darley, Rebecca R.: Indo-Byzantine exchange, 4th to 7th centuries : a global history
Dissertation Birmingham 2014
Volltext: Indo-Byzantine exchange, 4th to 7th centuries: a global history - eTheses Repository
Aus der Zusammenfassung ein kleiner Auszug, wohl eine Gegenposition zu einigen Publikationen, die das in größerer Bedeutung gesehen haben:
"The final conclusion of a close examination of Byzantine trade with India is that the significance of this trade in volume or impact upon state structure or revenue should not be overestimated. Given the common, though not universal, tendency within Indo-Roman studies to seek to carve out a role of great importance for long-distance trade in the ancient world, it is useful to establish a verifiable perspective on the later phase of trade. Understanding the superficial, though not culturally unimportant role which trade between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean played also enables this section of the Byzantine economy to be integrated into wider studies of the movement of staples and locally manufactured products, which constituted the bulk of Late Antique exchange. While Indo-Byzantine exchange may not have had a major impact on the Byzantine economy, using it as a vantage point from which to re-evaluate texts dealing with late Roman attitudes towards the east, especially the Christian Topography, compared here for the first time directly with the Periplous of the Erythreian Sea, demonstrates how the christianisation of the Roman Empire altered conceptions of geography and space (at least for some authors) but did not fundamentally alter perceptions of India as the exotic and luxurious ‘other’."
