Historiography and space in late antiquity /
The Roman Empire traditionally presented itself as the centre of the world, a view sustained by ancient education and conveyed in imperial literature. Historiography in particular tended to be written from an empire-centred perspective. In Late Antiquity, however, that attitude was challenged by the...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: From imperial to post-imperial space in late ancient historiography / Peter Van Nuffelen
- Constantinople's belated hegemony / Anthony Kaldellis
- Beside the rim of the ocean: the edges of the world in fifth- and sixth-century historiography / Peter Van Nuffelen
- Armenian space in late antiquity / Tim Greenwood
- Narrative and space in Christian chronography: John of Biclaro on east, west, and Orthodoxy / Mark Humphries
- The Roman Empire in John of Ephesus' church history: being Roman, writing Syriac / Hartmut Leppin
- Changing geographies: West Syrian ecclesiastical historiography, AD 700-850 / Philip Wood
- Where is Syriac pilgrimage literature in late antiquity? Exploring the absence of a genre / Scott Johnson.