Encounters: Travel and Money in the Byzantine World

by Eurydice S. Georganteli, Cook Barrie, Barrie Cook

The study of Byzantine coins is essentially the study of communications and movement of people and ideas, within and outside Byzantium. This highly illustrated and accessible volume, winner of the Royal Numismatic Society Lhotka Prize 2007 and nominated for the Art Newspaper & AXA Art Exhibition Catalogue Award 2007, focuses on over 50 coins to explore the empire's political and socio-economic development and cultural relations with its neighbours...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190483227X
• ISBN13: 9781904832270
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Giles
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.2" x 7.1"