For a long time, Sasanian studies were mainly cultivated by linguists and historians of religion, and the only standard work on the history of the Sasanian Empire was Arthur Christensen\'s L\'Iran sous les Sassanides (Copenhagen 1936; second revised and expanded edition 1944).
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Only in recent years, Christensen\'s authority was challenged: Several new syntheses eventually allowed Late Antique scholars to better understand the history and the structure of the great rival of the Roman Empire.
For a long time, Sasanian studies were mainly cultivated by linguists and historians of religion, and the only standard work on the history of the Sasanian Empire was Arthur Christensen\'s L\'Iran sous les Sassanides (Copenhagen 1936; second revised and expanded edition 1944)
