Author Affiliation: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.
摘要
The author studies the silk trae in Eurasia between the seventh and twelfth centuries to explore how religious ideas and institutions affected economic behaviour. Long-distance silk trade had been established for centuries in ancient Eurasia, well before the state in Tang China and the Byzantine Empire set up state silk industries and clothing codes to regulate the trade and consumption of silk textiles. Silk textiles were invested with symbolic meaning and their use restricted to bureaucratic and religious hierarchies in both regions.
目次
I. Rise of Buddhist Folk Religion and Relic Transactions II. Silk and Buddhism III. Silk in Byzantium IV. Cult of Saints and Christian Expansion V. Christianity and Silk Trade VI. Rise of Islam and the Tiraz System VII. Silk Trade under Islamic Rule VIII. Concluding Comments
