Zuckerman C.
La Crimée entre Byzance et le Khaganat Khazar
A cura di Zuckerman C. - Association des Amis du Centre d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, Paris 2005
232 pp.
Proceedings of a
symposium (Paris, November 2005) devoted to the Crimean peninsula,
highly favoured area of contact with the inhabitants of the steppes,
centralizing the relations between the Byzantine Empire and the Khaganat
khazar. Archaeological, philological and historical perspectives are
studied. Two contributions deal with the key issues of the period of
settlement of the Khazars in the Pontic steppe, and the attribution of
the treasure of Perescepina, among a broader context of discoveries from
the steppes of VIIth-early VIIIth centuries. We also find the entire
dossier of the saints of Crimea during the First Iconoclasm : The Greek
Life Jean of Gothie, given for the first time in a critical edition,
translated and commented ; the Armenian Life of Stephen of
Sougdaia/Surozh, in its complete form thanks to a manuscript discovered
at the Matenadaran, with his long slavonic Life, edited after the oldest
manuscript, and translated into English. The book contains a study of
the Sogdian presence on the Black Sea ; a reconstruction of the lost
source, common to Theophanes and Nicephore, describing the period
preceding the advent of Emperor Leo III, and an analysis of the
ideological and chronological context of the Episcopal notices 3 and 7
in the corpus of Darrouzes.
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