Silk on the Northern Border of Byzantium: Intentions, Possibilities, Findings

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Silk on the Northern Border of Byzantium: Intentions, Possibilities, Findings

Original language description

This article deals with the silk trade (or simply a movement of silk, because silk was not only intended for trade but was also used as a diplomatic gift) and the possible means by which it was imported into and exported from Byzantium across its north ern border. More precisely, could such a trade be running through the Crimea? If so, when and on whose initiative? Both literary and archaeological sources indicate that the town of Crimean Cherson was crucial for the Byzantine Empire and in certain times, i.e., in the 6th and 9th centuries, it played a significant role in long-distance trade. If we put together the fragments of sources from both Cherson and elsewhere, e.g., the account of Constantine the Philosopher’s journey to the Khazars, the precious finds of silk in the Caucasian settlement of Moshchevaya Balka or fragments of Crimean pottery in Sarkel, etc., we can see the picture of Cherson as a lively town, through which goods and articles of all sorts (silk included) were passing.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Byzantinoslavica

ISSN

0007-7712

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

80

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

88-107

UT code for WoS article

001126134000003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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