| Description |
1 online resource (138 pages) |
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Exeter studies in history, 0260-8628 ; no. 12 |
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Exeter studies in history ; no. 12. 0260-8628
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| Contents |
Did Athanasius write history? / B.H. Warmington -- Ammianus and the eternity of Rome / John Matthews -- Chronicle and theology / Robert Markus -- Sozomen and Eusebius / Jill Harries -- History as text / Averil Cameron -- The triumph of Greco-Roman rhetorical assumptions in pre-Carolingian historiography / Roger Ray -- Ethnic history and the Carolingians / Donald Bullough -- Romanitas and campanilismo / T.S. Brown -- Asser's Life of Alfred / James Campbell |
| Summary |
To what extent did the historians of the early Middle Ages inherit the aims and methods of Greek and Roman historiography? How far were they influenced by classical conventions about literary genre, rhetorical technique, and political subject-matter? A conference held in Exeter in 1985 brought together a number of scholars to discuss these questions. This book presents nine of the contributions, on representative authors from the 4th century to the 9th. Together they provide an authoritative guide to the contrasts and continuities in history-writing from Byzantium to Alfred's Wessex |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Historiography -- History
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Historiography
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History & Archaeology.
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History - General.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Holdsworth, C. J
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Wiseman, T. P. (Timothy Peter)
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| ISBN |
9781781380796 |
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1781380791 |
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