Engaging with the past, c.250-c.650 / Brian Croke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Croke, Brian, author.

Series:

Variorum collected studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Ancient--Historiography.

History, Ancient.

Middle Ages--Historiography.

Middle Ages.

Physical Description:

228 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Summary:

"Between c.250 and c.650, the way the past was seen, recorded and interpreted for a contemporary audience changed fundamentally. Only since the 1970s have the key elements of this historiographical revolution become clear, with the recasting of the period, across both east and west, as 'late antiquity'. Historiography, however, has struggled to find its place in this new scholarly world. No longer is decline and fall the natural explanatory model for cultural and literary developments, but continuity and transformation. In addition, the emergence of 'late antiquity' coincided with a methodological challenge arising from the 'linguistic turn' which impacted on history writing in all eras. This book is focussed on the development of modern understanding of how the ways of seeing and recording the past changed in the course of adjusting to emerging social, religious and cultural developments over the period from c.250 to c.650. Its overriding theme is how modern historiography has adapted over the past half century to engaging with the past between c.250 and c.650. Now, as explained in this book, the newly dominant historiographical genres (chronicles, epitomes, church histories) are seen as the preferred modes of telling the story of the past, rather than being considered rudimentary and naïve"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : organising history and historiography

Reflecting on an historiographical half-century, 1970-2020

Historiography in late antiquity : an overview

Latin historiography in the Barbarian kingdoms

Historiography

Tradition and originality in Photius' historical reading

Uncovering Byzantium's historiographical audience

Momigliano's historiographical contribution, c. 250-c.650.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Croke, Brian. Engaging with the past, c.250-c.650

ISBN:

9781032234809

1032234806

9781032234816

1032234814

OCLC:

1348866482