The Sasanian era / edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Sarah Stewart. - London ; New York, NY : New York, NY : I.B. Tauris in association with The London Middle East Institute at SOAS and The British Museum ; Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - 175 Pages . : illustration, map ; 24 cm. - The idea of Iran ; v. 3 .

Proceedings of two symposia.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [158]-175).

Introduction -- How Pious was Shapur I? -- Early Sasanian coinage -- Formation and ideology of the Sasanian state in the context of archaeological evidence -- Kingship in early Sasanian Iran -- Image and identity: art of the early Sasanian Dynasty -- The Sasanian in the East -- Religion in the late Sasanian Period: Eran, Aneran, and other religious designations -- State and society in late Antique Iran -- Prices and drachms in the late Sasanian Period -- Late Sasanian society between orality and literacy.

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Sassanids--Congresses.


Iran--History--To 640--Congresses.

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