Sasanian Persia

Preliminaries: List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Notes on the Contributors, Series Editor's Foreword; 1. Introduction - Eberhard W. Sauer; 2. Sasanian cities: archaeological perspectives on the urban economy and built environment of an empire St John Simpson; 3. Palaeoecoiogical insights into agri-horti-cultural and pastoral practices before, during and after the Sasanian Empire - Lyudmila Shumilovskikh, Morteza Djamali, Valerie Andrieu-Ponel, Philippe Ponel, Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, Abdolmajid Naderi-Beni and Eberhard W. Saue; 4. Animal exploitation and subsistence on the borders of the Sasanian Empire: from the Gorgan Wall (Iran) to the Gates of the Alans (Georgia) - Marjan Mashkour, Roya Khazaeli, Homa Fathi, Sarieh Amiri, Delphine Decruyenaere, Azadeh Mohaseb, Hossein Davoudi, Shiva Sheikhi and Eberhard W. Sauer; 5. The Northern and Western Borderlands of the Sasanian Empire: Contextualizing the Roman/Byzantine and Sasanian Frontier - Dan Lawrence and Tony J. Wilkinson; 6. Connectivity on a Sasanian frontier: Route systems in the Gorgan Plain of north-east Iran Kristen Hopper; 7. The Sasanian Empire and the East: A summary of the evidence and its implications for Rome Warwick Ball; 8. Minority Religions in the Sasanian Empire: Suppression, Integration, and Relations with Rome Lee E. Patterson; 9. A Contested Jurisdiction: Armenia in Late Antiquity Tim Greenwood; 10. Cultural contacts between Rome and Persia at the time of Ardashir I (AD 224-240) - Pierfrancesco Callieri; 11. Innovation and Stagnation: Military Infrastructure and the Shifting Balance of Power between Rome and Persia Eberhard W. Sauer, Jebrael Nokandeh, Konstantin Pitskhelauri and Hamid Omrani Rekavandi; 12. The Arabian Frontier: A Keystone of the Sasanian Empire Craig Morley; 13. The India Trade in Late Antiquity James Howard-Johnston.