Western Perspectives on the Mediterranean - Cultural Transfer in Late Antiquity Early Middle Ages, 400 800 AD

Informationen zum Autor Andreas Fischer is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Ian Wood is Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leeds, UK. Zusammenfassung A high-level scholarly collection of articles on the transmission of knowledge and culture from a Mediterranean world politically fragmented by the fall of the western Roman empire and Islamic expansion into Latin Europe, 400-800 AD. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionThe Burgundians and ByzantiumIan Wood (School of History, University of Leeds, Uk)'Avenger of All Perjury' in Constantinople, Ravenna and Metz: St Polyeuctus, Sigibert I and the Division OfCharibert's Kingdom in 568 Stefan Esders (Friedrich-meinecke-institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) The Historian as Cultural Broker in the Late and Post-roman West Helmut Reimitz (Department of History, Princeton University, USA)Rewriting History: Fredegar's Perspectives on the MediterraneanAndreas Fischer (Friedrich-meinecke-institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)Greek Popes: Yes or No, and Did It Matter? Thomas Noble (Department of History, University of Notre Dame, USA)Mediterranean Lessons for Northumbrian Monks in Bede's Chronica Maiora Sören Kaschke (Seminar Für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany)Index

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• Authors: Dummy Author, Andreas Fischer, Ian Wood
• Assisted by: Andreas Fischer (Editor), Fischer Andreas (Editor), Ian Wood (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781474269209
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-6920-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Europe, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, CE period up to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Mediterranean countries, History and Archaeology, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval