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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Corporate Author: Historiography and Space in Late Antiquity (Veranstaltung) Gent (Author)
Other Authors: Nuffelen, Peter van 1976- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, USA ; Port Melbourne, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2019
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Summary: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
Item Description: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 217 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781108686686
DOI:10.1017/9781108686686

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