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Historiography and Space in Late Antiquity

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The later Roman Empire was shrinking on the map, but still shaped the way historians represented the space around them.

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List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: from imperial to post-imperial space in Late Ancient historiography Peter Van Nuffelen; 1. Constantinople's belated hegemony Anthony Kaldellis; 2. Beside the rim of the ocean: the edges of the world in fifth- and sixth- century historiography Peter Van Nuffelen; 3. Armenian space in Late Antiquity Tim Greenwood; 4. Narrative and space in Christian chronography: John of Biclaro on East, West, and orthodoxy Mark Humphries; 5. The Roman Empire in John of Ephesus' Church history: being Roman, writing Syriac Hartmut Leppin; 6. Changing geographies: West Syrian ecclesiastical historiography, AD 700-850 Philip Wood; 7. Where is Syriac Pilgrimage literature in Late Antiquity? Exploring the absence of a genre Scott Johnson; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Peter Van Nuffelen is Professor of Ancient History at Universiteit Gent, Belgium, where he leads an ERC-funded team on late ancient historiography. His recent publications include Rethinking the Gods: Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post-Hellenistic Period (Cambridge, 2011), Orosius and the Rhetoric of History (2012), and Penser la tolérance durant l'Antiquité tardive (2018).

Product details

Authors Peter (Universiteit Gent Van Nuffelen
Assisted by Peter van Nuffelen (Editor), Van Nuffelen Peter (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.10.2019
 
EAN 9781108481281
ISBN 978-1-108-48128-1
No. of pages 226
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories

European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Historiography, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE

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