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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Van Nuffelen, Peter (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
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.