The Inheritance of Historiography, 350-900

Edited by Christopher Holdsworth and T. P. Wiseman. To what extent did the historians of the early Middle Ages inherit the aims and methods of Greek and Roman historiography? A conference held in Exeter in 1985 brought together a number of distinguished scholars to discuss these questions.This book presents nine of the contributions, on representative authors from the fourth century to the ninth. Together they provide an authoritative guide to the contrasts and continuities in history-writing from Byzantium to Alfred's Wessex. From the content: B.H. Warmington: Did Athanasius Write History?; - John Matthews: Ammianus and the Eternity of Rome; - R. A. Markus: Chronicle and Theology: Prosper of Aquitaine; - Jill Harries: Sozomen and Eusebius: The Lawyer as Church Historian in the Fifth Century; - Averil Cameron: History as Text: Coping with Procopius; - Roger Ray: The Triumph of Greco-Roman Rhetorical Assumptions in Pre-Carolingian Historiography; - Donald Bullough: Ethnic History and the Carolingians: An Alternative Reading of Paul the Deacon's Historia Langobardorum; - T.S. Brown: Romanitas and Campanilismo: Agnellus Of Ravenna's View of the Past; - James Campbell: Asser's Life of Alfred. 138 Seiten, broschiert (Exeter Studies in History; No. 12/University of Exeter Publications 1986) textsauber, mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use

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