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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Körperschaft: Historiography and Space in Late Antiquity (Veranstaltung) Gent (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Nuffelen, Peter van 1976- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch Tagungsbericht E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, USA ; Port Melbourne, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2019
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Zusammenfassung: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 fragmentation of the empire. This book explores how a post-imperial representation of space emerges in the historiography of that period. Minds adapted slowly, long ignoring Constantinople as the new capital and still finding counter-worlds at the edges of the world. Even in Christian literature, often thought of as introducing a new conception of space, the empire continued to influence geographies. Political changes and theological ideas, however, helped to imagine a transferral of empire away from Rome and to substitute ecclesiastical for imperial space. By the end of Late Antiquity, Rome was just one of many centres of the world
Beschreibung: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
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ISBN:9781108686686
DOI:10.1017/9781108686686

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