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"The first systematic collection of fragmentary Latin historians from the period AD 300-620, this volume provides an edition and translation of, and commentary on, the fragments. It proposes new interpretations of the fragments and of the works from which they derive, whilst also spelling out what the fragments add to our knowledge of Late Antiquity. Integrating the fragmentary material with the texts preserved in full, the volume suggests new ways to understand the development of history writing in the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages"--
List of contents
Introduction; 1. Carminius; 2. Anonymous, On the origins of Padua; 3. Nicomachus Flavianus; 4. Nummius Aemilianus Dexter; 5. Protadius; 6. Naucellius; 7. Anonymous, History of Rome; 8. Pseudo-Hegesippus; 9. Sulpicius Alexander; 10. Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus; 11. Favius; 12. Consentius; 13. Ablabius; 14. Maximian of Ravenna; 15. Symmachus the Younger; 16. Marcellinus Comes; 17. Cassiodorus; 18. Roterius; 19. Secundus of Trent; 20. Maximus of Zaragoza; Spuria et dubia; 21. Bruttius; 22. Latinus Alcimus Alethius Rhetor; 23. Tyconius.
About the author
Lieve Van Hoof is Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University. Trained as a classicist, historian and political scientist, she studies the socio-political role of literature under the Roman Empire. Her publications include Plutarch's Practical Ethics: The Social Dynamics of Philosophy (2010) and Libanius: A Critical Introduction (2014). Together with Peter Van Nuffelen, she has published the Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (2019), a full inventory of late antique historiography, and a translation of Jordanes' Romana and Getica (2020).Peter Van Nuffelen is Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University, where he has led an European Research Council-funded team on late ancient historiography. He has published widely on Late Antiquity, early Christianity, and ancient religion and philosophy. Recent books are Orosius and the Rhetoric of History (2012) and Penser la tolérance dans l'Antiquité tardive (2018).
Summary
The first systematic collection of fragmentary Latin historians from the period AD 300–620. Translations and commentaries make them accessible and propose new interpretations. The volume also reconsiders the evolution of historiography in the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
