Description
Book SynopsisThis volume represents a selection of papers presented at the 2013 Edinburgh Seventh Century Colloquium, showcasing the latest scholarship from a rising generation of academics. The volume traverses the globe from Iran to the Atlantic and from Sweden to the Sahara and ranges from the establishment of the early Islamic state to the beginnings of English Christianity. Topics include the transmission of high culture across time, settlement patterns in a rapidly changing world and the formation of new and emerging identities. The essays also bring into dialogue a wide range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, including archaeology, literature, history, art, papyrology and economics. Together, they generate valuable new insights into the still uncharted territories of the long seventh century.
Trade Review«This is a valuable, but somewhat heterogeneous, collection of thirteen learned and specialized, yet thought-provoking, essays on different and wide-ranging aspects of seventh-century history. [...] the editors have really accomplished a lot in this modest-sized and highly recommended volurne.»
(Walter E. Kaegi, The Historian Vol. 79, Issue 3 2017)
Table of ContentsContents: Emanuele E. Intagliata/Bethan N. Morris: Preface: Evaluating the ‘Edinburgh Seventh-Century Colloquium’ Experience – Alex Woolf: Sutton Hoo and Sweden Revisited – Heidi Stoner: Kings without Faces: An Examination of the Visual Evidence for Kingship in the Seventh Century – Austin Mason: The Early English Cult of Saints in Long-Term Perspective – Richard Broome: Approaches to the Frankish Community in the
Chronicle of Fredegar and
Liber Historiae Francorum – Paolo Forlin: The Periphery during the Seventh Century: The Rise of a New Landscape within the Core of the Alps. Climate Change, Land Use and the Arrival of the Lombards in the Eastern Trentino, Northern Italy (Sixth–Seventh Centuries AD) – Jörg Drauschke: The Development of Diplomatic Contacts and Exchange between the Byzantine Empire and the Frankish Kingdoms until the Early Eighth Century – José Cristóbal Carvajal López/Julio Miguel Román Punzón/Miguel Jiménez Puertas/Javier Martínez Jiménez: When the East Came to the West: The Seventh Century in the Vega of Granada (South-East Spain): Visigoths, Byzantines and Muslims – Ine Jacobs: From Early Byzantium to the Middle Ages at Sagalassos – Giuseppe Cacciaguerra/Antonino Facella/Luca Zambito: Continuity and Discontinuity in Seventh-Century Sicily: Rural Settlement and Economy – Marie Legendre: Islamic Conquest, Territorial Reorganization and Empire Formation: A Study of Seventh-Century Movements of Population in the Light of Egyptian Papyri – Ryan J. Lynch: Sons of the Muhājirūn: Some Comments on Ibn al-Zubayr and Legitimizing Power in Seventh-Century Islamic History – Mehrnoush Soroush: Irrigation in Khuzistan after the Sasanians: Continuity, Decline, or Transformation? – Thomas J. MacMaster: Afterword: Why the Seventh Century? The Problem of Periodization across Cultures.
