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Historiography and space in late antiquity / edited by Peter Van Nuffelen, Ghent University, Belgium. - pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9781108481281 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2019005244

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Church history--Historiography.
Space--Philosophy--History.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Rome--History--Historiography.--Empire, 284-476
Rome (Italy)--History--Historiography.--476-1420
Roman provinces--Historiography.

LC Class. No.: DG205 / .H627 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 937/.08072