The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles After Eusebius: Edition, Translation and Commentary - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108420281 ISBN 13 : 9781108420280

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

This is the first systematic collection of the remains of the lost Greek chronicles from the period AD 350–650 and provides an edition and translation of and commentary on the fragments. Introducing neglected authors and proposing new interpretations, it reveals the diversity of the genre and revises traditional views about its development, nuancing in particular the role usually attributed to Eusebius of Caesarea. It shows how the writing of chronicles was deeply entangled in controversies about exegesis and liturgy, especially the dates of Christmas and Easter. Drawing from Latin, Armenian, Syriac and Arabic sources besides Greek ones, the book also studies how chronographic material travelled across linguistic and cultural boundaries. In this way, it sheds a profoundly new light on historiography in transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

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À propos des auteurs

Peter Van Nuffelen is Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University. His further publications include Orosius and the Rhetoric of History (Oxford, 2012) and Penser la tolerance durant l'Antiquité tardive (Paris, 2018). Together with Lieve Van Hoof, he authored the Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (Turnhout, 2020), The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 2020), and Jordanes: Getica and Romana (Liverpool, 2020). He is the recipient of several prizes and major grants, including a Starting Grant and an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council.

Lieve van Hoof is Professor of Ancient History & Classics at Ghent University. Her publications include a monograph on Plutarch (Oxford, 2010) and an edited volume on Libanius (Cambridge, 2014). A former President of the Young Academy, she was distinguished as Laureate of the Royal Academy of Flanders for the Sciences and the Arts, and is currently Professor Extraordinary at the University of Stellenbosch.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108420281
• ISBN 13: 9781108420280
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 704
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie