The Chronicle of Hydatius and the Consularia Constantinopolitana - Two Contemporary Accounts of the Final Years of the Roman Empire

New critical editions, with detailed introductions, appendices, and English translations of two important historical sources for late antiquity.

About the author

R. W. Burgess is a professor of Classics at the University of Ottawa and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has written five books, over forty articles and chapters, and almost seventy encyclopaedia entries on chronicles, numismatics, late Roman and Byzantine historiography, and late Roman history.

Summary

New critical editions, with detailed introductions, appendices, and English translations of two important historical sources for late antiquity.

Additional text

a valuable addition ... also presents valuable insights into early medieval historiographic manuscript compilation ... B.'s reviewing of knowable facts about Hydatius and the composition of his Chronicle is valuable ... The text itself is excellent. Altogether this new presentation of the text impresses the reader with Hydatius' care as a chronographer. B.'s working displays skilful scholarship and exhaustive diligence, distilled into a volume which will be much appreciated by all users, and advancing the study not only of the two texts involved but more generally of late antique historiography.

Product details

• Authors: R. W. Burgess
• Assisted by: R. W. Burgess (Editor and translation), Burgess R. W. (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.09.1993
• EAN: 9780198147879
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814787-9
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 236 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 562 g
• Illustrations: line figures
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Literary essays, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, The Early Church