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Cultural Encounters on Byzantium's Northern Frontier, c. AD 500-700 - Coins, Artifacts and History (Paperback)
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Cultural Encounters on Byzantium's Northern Frontier, c. AD 500-700 - Coins, Artifacts and History (Paperback)
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In the sixth century, Byzantine emperors secured the provinces of
the Balkans by engineering a frontier system of unprecedented
complexity. Drawing on literary, archaeological, anthropological,
and numismatic sources, Andrei Gandila argues that cultural
attraction was a crucial component of the political frontier of
exclusion in the northern Balkans. If left unattended, the entire
edifice could easily collapse under its own weight. Through a
detailed analysis of the archaeological evidence, the author
demonstrates that communities living beyond the frontier competed
for access to Byzantine goods and reshaped their identity as a
result of continual negotiation, reinvention, and hybridization. In
the hands of 'barbarians', Byzantine objects, such as coins,
jewelry, and terracotta lamps, possessed more than functional or
economic value, bringing social prestige, conveying religious
symbolism embedded in the iconography, and offering a general sense
of sharing in the Early Byzantine provincial lifestyle.
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