‘Industrial espionage’ of Justinian I (527-565)

• Authors: MAKSYMIUK Katarzyna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Economic espionage especially with regard to luxury goods has been known since Antiquity. A key event in economic history of late Antiquity is smuggling of the silk worms, described by the Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea in his eighth book of the Wars.

Keywords

EN

the Silk Road; Byzantium; China; Iran; Khosrow; Justinian; Procopius; espionage

• Publisher: Uniwersytet w Siedlcach
• Journal: Historia i Świat
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 10
• Pages: 445-453

Dates

published

2021-10-22

Contributors

author

MAKSYMIUK Katarzyna

• Siedlce University, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.34739/his.2021.10.26