Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield
widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new
captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and
Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering
their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk
Road-those who made them, carried them, received them, used them,
sold them, worshipped them, and, in more recent times, bought them,
conserved them, and curated them. From a delicate pair of earrings
from a steppe tomb to a massive stupa deep in Central Asia, a hoard
of Kushan coins stored in an Ethiopian monastery to a Hellenistic
glass bowl from a southern Chinese tomb, and a fragment of
Byzantine silk wrapping the bones of a French saint to a Bactrian
ewer depicting episodes from the Trojan War, these objects show us
something of the cultural diversity and interaction along these
trading routes of Afro-Eurasia. Exploring the labor, tools,
materials, and rituals behind these various objects, Whitfield
infuses her narrative with delightful details as the objects
journey through time, space, and meaning. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas
is a lively, visual, and tangible way to understand the Silk Road
and the cultural, economic, and technical changes of the late
antique and medieval worlds.
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