Resumen de La place de l’empire sassanide dans les débats sur l’Antiquité tardive
Studies on the Sassanids are of different types, depending on whether they come under the heading of ancient Iranian studies (from the Indo-Iranians and the Achaemenids), or the beginnings of the Islamic world (which integrate the Sasanian heritages, but also those of the Arabs and the Byzantine Levant) and Late Antique studies. But the latter are multiple because they can refer to different geographical spaces and temporalities: late Roman, Roman-Sassanid, Roman-Sassanid-Umayyad, Eurasian or Eufrasian. The analysis of these geographical spaces highlights different possible narratives about the Sassanids. This poses methodological problems depending on whether one insists on Western (in relation to the Roman Empire) or Eastern (in relation to Central Asia) perspectives, but also epistemological ones, since the various geographical spaces under examination do not all allow for a clear definition of the nature of the Late Antiquity they claim to study.
