Pohl Walter, Wieser Veronika. Emerging Powers in Eurasian Comparison, 200-1100: Shadows of Empire

Brill, 2022. — 457 p.This book looks at the fall and persistence of empires from the perspective of the powers that replaced them, and compares several cases between China and the West in the first millennium CE with surprisingly similar beginnings and different outcomes. The Emergence of New Polities in the Shadows of Empire. Peripheral Polities North of the Carolingian Realm: The Regnum Danorum. Byzantium and Its Peripheral Powers. The Lagoons as a Distant Mirror: Constantinople, Venice and the Italian Romania.