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Author Van Nuffelen, Peter

Title Orosius and the rhetoric of history / Peter Van Nuffelen
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford early Christian studies
Oxford early Christian studies.
Contents ""Cover""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Note on Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Unexpected Pearls: Prefaces and the Rhetoric of Deference""; ""2. A Tale of Two Cities: Book 2 and the Fall of Rome""; ""3. The Past as Literature: exempla and the Culture of Rhetoric""; ""4. (Re)sources of Narrative""; ""5. A Sense of the Past: The Truth of Rhetoric""; ""6. A Past for the Present: On Metaphors and Panegyric""; ""7. Beyond Rome: Universal History and the Barbarian""; ""8. What Difference Does Christianity Make?""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index of Sources""; ""Subject Index""; ""A""
""B""""c""; ""d""; ""e""; ""f""; ""g""; ""h""; ""i""; ""j""; ""k""; ""l""; ""m""; ""n""; ""o""; ""p""; ""q""; ""r""; ""s""; ""t""; ""u""; ""v""; ""w""; ""x""
Summary Drawing on textual and rhetorical analysis, Peter Van Nuffelen proposes a major revaluation of 'The Histories Against the Pagans' of Orosius, arguing that it is a much more subtle and complex text than usually assumed. Van Nuffelen uses Orosius as a lens to consider 4th- and 5th-century historiography
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Orosius, Paulus. Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII
SUBJECT Orosius, Paulus 385-418 gnd
Subject Rhetoric, Ancient.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
Historiography
Rhetoric, Ancient
Geschichtsschreibung
Rhetorik
SUBJECT Rome -- Historiography
Subject Rome (Empire)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191627071
0191627070
9780191745232
0191745235
9781283601986
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9786613914439
6613914436